“I Don’t Have 90 Minutes to Do an MPT” (Spoiler Alert: You Do)
Every bar exam season, I hear some version of the same line: “I just don’t have a spare 90 minutes during the week to complete a full MPT” or, as I'm beginning to hear from people taking the NextGen UBE: "I just don't have the time to do a 60-minute Performance Task." Let’s be honest. That’s rarely true. Photo by Maximalfocus on Unsplash Most of the time, it’s not that students don’t have the time. It’s that they don’t want to spend that time doing something they find overwhe
Tommy Sangchompuphen
6 days ago5 min read
National Donut Day: A Dozen "Do-NOTs" of Bar Prep
Happy National Donut Day! Before anyone emails me: Yes, I realize that a "donut" and a "do not" are two completely different things. But if you've spent any amount of time reading ProfessorTommy.tips, you know there was no chance I was letting a perfectly good pun go to waste. Today, people across the country will celebrate with glazed donuts, chocolate donuts, powdered donuts, jelly-filled donuts, and perhaps even a dozen donuts. Since donuts are traditionally sold by the do
Tommy Sangchompuphen
Jun 58 min read
Don't Just Practice the Law, Practice the Exam
One of the most overlooked aspects of bar preparation is learning how to take the exam in the format in which it will actually be administered. Many students spend hundreds of hours learning substantive law and completing practice questions, but very little time becoming comfortable with the testing environment itself. Yet familiarity with the testing platform and testing procedures can reduce anxiety, prevent avoidable mistakes, and improve efficiency on exam day. The specif
Tommy Sangchompuphen
Jun 13 min read