BarIssues.com Information

We help law students and bar candidates pass the California Bar Exam with our online searchable database of ALL issues tested on the bar exam essays since 2001 - complete with links to the actual questions and bar-selected passing answers. We first got the idea for BarIssues.com as law students studying for exams and planning ahead for the California Bar Exam. Seeing the number of legal issues and rules in each course adding up, we realized there were potentially thousands of issues that could be tested on the bar exam. We wanted to make the best use of our study time, so we searched for a resource showing which issues in each subject were tested most often on the essay portion of the exam. To our surprise, we found that no such data existed! So we decided to create our own database by analyzing all essays on the California Bar Exam beginning with July 2001, when they first became available on the State Bar website. This was a big undertaking, but the database became an important study tool which we updated after every new release of bar exam essays. We separated each essay question with its 2 passing answers into its own PDF file for quick and easy reference - and wow, that was a huge help. As the bar exam approached, with years of data in front of us, we could easily see where to spend the bulk of our efforts: studying the most frequently tested issues. Not only that, but we could quickly find bar-passing answers for any tested issue. Knowing how helpful our database had been to us, we realized it could be shared with other law students and bar candidates, and as a resource for law professors and bar exam tutors. Building an interactive website around it became our next goal, and a year later, BarIssues.com was born.