Trust the Bar exam tutor who actually served as a grader.

Ditch the group classes! Take the guided path to bar success with former grader and trusted law professor Jay Bijlani as your personal bar exam tutor. Your Esquired bar exam prep course ALWAYS includes tutoring with – and only with – Jay!

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About Us

The Best Bar Exam Tutor Comes with Firsthand Knowledge.

How do I improve my scores on the bar exam? Who else but a former bar grader and law professor would best understand the California Bar Examination’s notorious “minimum competence” standard? Get inside the grader’s head and prepare with confidence. 

Founded by a former bar grader for multiple exam cycles and who has been a bar exam tutor for over 14 years, Esquired will teach you trusted methods and effective strategies toward clear goals for your bar success. No matter which program you choose, you work closely with former California bar grader Jay Bijlani and NO ONE else. At Esquired, you are NEVER outsourced to a “team member!” 

Unlock Your Success with Personalized Bar Exam Tutoring from Jay Bijlani!

 Why settle for classroom-style instruction when you can have exclusive, one-on-one tutoring with a former bar grader? With Jay, you’ll experience comprehensive, efficient study sessions tailored to your needs, ensuring optimal time management and lower stress learning. Get Esquired and get a prep experience like no other!

WHAT WE DO

Your Prescription for
Passing the Bar Exam.

Replace fear and misinformation about the bar exam with confidence and competence, and then prove how you can lawyer on the essay, performance test and MBE sections. 

How do you get there? Esquired deconstructs the bar exam and the “minimum competence” standard from the perspective of a bar grader and provides a carefully engineered, holistic program for success. Your program has you in mind: your strengths, your weaknesses, your learning preferences. You, Esq.!

The Fundamentals of Bar Exam Success.

Defined Goals and Step-by-Step Approaches

From the start, understand clearly what it takes to pass the bar exam and how to target the specific skills involved. 

First, skip the self-proclaimed “experts” and blogs loaded with “tricks.” Learn directly from a former bar grader what it takes to be Esquired: What do the bar graders want to see on the essays and performance test? How do you raise your MBE score?

Then, use sophisticated approaches that target those defined competencies and skills across multiple subjects.

Substantive Law Designed for the Bar Grader's Eyes

Feel confident with the depth and breadth of law you are using. 

Efficient study demands comprehensive and logically constructed substantive law and other materials. Forget distilling rules from inconsistent lectures and written materials. 

With complete consistency in substantive law structuring and terminology, all of your resources and feedback work together to promote your understanding and memorization of the rules for the essays and MBEs. 

Best of all, work with rules that are keyed to how the bar grader would hope to see them presented.

Formative Assessment

Learn where you stand with meaningful feedback given by a former bar grader.

Jay Bijlani incorporates multiple tools for your improvement. For example, on all submitted assignments, he provides a realistic bar score and detailed, pinpoint written comments identifying each problem and showing you how to fix it. During face-to-face, one-on-one sessions, Jay uses interactive exercises to target deficiencies in law and skill on all three portions of the bar exam.

Knowing you have a former bar grader and law professor at your side, focus on your weaknesses and celebrate your progress and strengths throughout.

Accountability

Know how to spend your time wisely. 

Preparing fully for the bar exam presents a variety of challenges, including: understanding and memorizing substantive law; practicing a substantial number of essay, PT and MBE questions; considering family and work obligations; staying motivated. 

Maintain the delicate balance from start to finish so you do not fall behind. Stay on track with Esquired.