Pieper Courses : Concentrated Weekends

Pieper Concentrated Weekends

Designed and scheduled for the working person repeating the NYS Bar Exam, this course will meet Sundays starting June 1, 2008 to assist students who cannot attend a full-time bar review program this Summer. Classes will be taught live by Professor Troy G. Pieper at New York University School of Law; students must attend each live session as the classes will not be recorded. Enrollment is strictly limited and registration for this class will close May 30, 2008.

Using substantive materials they have amassed from their prior bar review course experience, students will be required to diligently prepare the assigned substantive law areas in advance of each class. Written substantive law outlines from Pieper Bar Review texts will be provided to students who did not previously take the full Pieper Bar Review course to fill in gaps students may have in their own materials. The Concentrated Weekend classes will then serve as a streamlined, efficient review of the most critical points of substantive law in the context of bar exam MBE and essay questions.

In addition, the classes will enable students weekly to test (through extensive multiple choice and writing exercises) their knowledge, comprehension and retention of substantive law while working toward higher MBE scores and written averages. For example, in addition to completing MBE assignments outside of class from actual released MBE exams (Feb and July 1991), each week students will answer actual MBE questions (from the July 1998 exam) in the assigned substantive areas under exam conditions. Troy G. Pieper will then conduct a substantive review and analysis of the questions while imparting strategies and techniques for success on the MBE.

With respect to writing, students submit five actual NYS Bar Exam essays as well as an actual released MPT for grading and extensive written feedback. They will also prepare additional NYS Bar Exam essays and another released MPT under exam conditions for immediate critique in class. In addition to providing this extensive essay writing practice and instruction, Troy G. Pieper will review in class dozens of prior New York Bar Exams and provide detailed approaches to hundreds of heavily tested, recurring issues.

The tuition for this course is $995.00 for Pieper repeaters and $1,595.00 for non-Pieper repeaters.  

NOTES: Troy G. Pieper advises students taking this course to begin studying immediately so as not to waste the valuable time leading up to June. This study should constitute an in-depth, systematic review of substantive materials, starting with areas in which the individual's score sheet demonstrates a deficiency. By addressing problem areas in April and May, students will be better equipped to keep up with the fast pace we will undertake in June and July.

Additionally, don't let this course's high repeater pass rate lull you into a sense of false security.  The statewide repeater pass rate in July will again be around 25%, and Mr. Pieper advises those whose most recent NYS Bar Exam final score is below 640 to take a full bar review course rather than any weekend course. In Mr. Pieper's experience, scores below 640 evidence substantive law deficiencies that are most effectively remedied through full-time study in a full bar review course.