the three best California Bar Exam Tutoring Programs
Who you see is who you ALWAYS get...
… and that’s JAY! The best California bar exam tutor and prep course come from real and trusted experience. While others delegate your work to their trainees, Esquired offers only the best with Jay Bijlani, who was a California bar grader and a law professor! Why settle for anyone else when SO much is at stake?
Jay Bijlani has a wealth of experience in grading thousands of exam answers and has trained under The State Bar of California itself. As a former faculty member at two California law schools, he has helped countless students achieve bar exam success.
At Esquired, you can trust that Jay will provide consistent, direct, and personalized attention to help you pass the California Bar Exam once and for all. Choose Esquired and Jay Bijlani for the bar exam prep and tutoring you can trust.
The EssentialPlus Program
Essential California Bar Tutoring.
The EssentialPlus Program stands in the place of bar prep classes for the California bar exam and includes direct personal tutoring with Jay Bijlani. The result is unparalleled, comprehensive study at a lower cost.
The advanced Program
Reinforced California Bar Tutoring.
The Advanced Program builds on The EssentialPlus Program with closer personal direction for optimal time management and even more focus on student-specific problems and opportunities for feedback.
The Complete Program
Complete California Bar Tutoring.
The Complete Program builds on The Advanced Program with intensive reinforcement of California bar exam-tested law and skill. Experience the most poignant handholding by a trusted mentor of any time in your law career!
The Pillars of the programs
Preliminary Diagnosis of Problem Areas
From the bar grader’s perspective, the program begins with a critical evaluation of your past work to immediately identify problems that may impact your performance on the California Bar Examination. Accordingly, this diagnostic allows you to get a running start!
Comprehensive Substantive Law
Review with far less stress by applying substantive law that is succinct, logically constructed and carefully designed to promote easier memorization. This eliminates your need to enroll in any of the major bar review programs, which often present substantive law inconsistently and incoherently.
One-on-One, Face-to-Face Tutoring Sessions
Meet with Jay Bijlani in private sessions from the comfort of your home, whether you are studying in San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, Oakland, San Jose or Timbuktu. Through these sessions, you will be armed with a consistently workable and effective strategy for success on the essays, performance test and MBEs.
PrepPlan
Study with clarity from the start with a PrepPlan, a realistic and closely monitored daily schedule. Jay Bijlani crafts the PrepPlan so that you allocate the proper amount of time to learn and memorize the substantive law while developing the skills needed to pass the bar exam.
Targeted Feedback
From the nuanced perspective a former bar grader and law professor, receive constructive and detailed assessment of strengths and weaknesses in reviewed assignments.
Effective feedback includes: identification and approaches to issues presented; clarification of rules of law; development of legal analyses; and a realistic bar score.
The EssentialPlus Program
Essential California Bar Tutoring.
For the motivated quick learner on a tight budget, there’s the EssentialPlus Program! Don’t bother with with a piecemeal “supplemental” program that just adds substantive law workshops to lectures you already have from a big box bar review company. The EssentialPlus Program offers value, plus ALL the tools necessary to pass the California Bar Exam. This program replaces your major bar review course AND adds personal supervision by Jay Bijlani – a former bar grader and law professor!
The EssentialPlus Program includes:
Substantive law outlines for each subject tested on the Essay and MBE sections
- Developed by a former bar grader
- Designed meticulously for the bar grader’s eyes
- Logical and succinct construction for efficient memorization
- Tips, mnemonics and examples included for optimal comprehension and retention
- Hardcopy format
A PrepPlan: a detailed daily study schedule
- Optimally planned course of study from the program start date to the days of the Bar Exam
- Clear deadlines for submitting Essays and Performance Tests for Jay Bijlani’s grading
Preliminary diagnosis of problem areas
- Diagnostic Essay and Performance Test questions assigned to jumpstart our focus on your problem areas in our first session
Two Skills and Strategies Sessions with Jay Bijlani
- Two personal, one-on-one tutoring sessions with former bar grader and professor Jay Bijlani – you are never delegated to anyone else!
- Each session lasts 1 hour, 15 minutes
- A trusted bond developed with a mentor who is invested in your success
- Sessions conducted over Zoom, FaceTime or in person
- Interactive targeting of your specific weaknesses on Essays, PT and/or MBEs
- Opportunities for improved understanding of the substantive law
All 10 Essays and Performance Tests graded personally by Jay Bijlani
- ALL targeted line-by-line feedback provided by Jay Bijlani himself – your assignments are never delegated to anyone else!
- A realistic bar score awarded by Jay Bijlani himself – he best understands the “minimum competence” standard
- Feedback that allows you easily apply lessons learned to other fact patterns
- Specific insight into what is most important to the bar graders given your limited time on the exam
- Specific Essays for grading submission curated by Jay Bijlani, each carefully selected for commonly tested content, embedded analytical tricks and other lessons to learn
- Flexible choice with the combination of Essays and Performance Tests you would like to have graded
Weekly Check-In Sessions with Jay Bijlani
- Opportunites to have Jay Bijlani personally answer your questions on: the substantive law and skills tested; memorization tools; time management; AND your non-academic concerns
- Each check-in can last up to 15 minutes
Subject-specific attack plans to significantly boost your performance on Essays and MBE
- Enhanced techniques for accurate spotting of major and minor issues tested on Essays
- Enhanced techniques for identification of the best answer choice on the MBE
Clearly defined, results-based strategies to answer any Essay, Performance Test and MBE
- 13 Essay video lectures presenting and applying the multistep process to each of the tested essay subjects
- 8 MBE video lectures presenting and applying the multistep process to each of the tested MBE subjects
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2 Performance Test video lectures presenting and applying the multistep process to various objective and persuasive writing formats
- NO endless, passive substantive law lectures
Price: 5,750
Installment payment plan available at no extra cost.
The Advanced Program
Reinforced California Bar Tutoring.
Could you use more consistent handholding and oversight during your bar prep? The Advanced Program includes more personal time with former bar grader and law professor Jay Bijlani! This program includes a personalized study schedule and more one-on-one sessions and opportunities for detailed feedback. These additional tools offer you more accountability, a deeper dive to cure your weaknesses, and instill more confidence! The goal of passing the California bar exam never became more attainable!
The Advanced Program includes:
Substantive law outlines for each subject tested on the Essay and MBE sections
- Developed by a former bar grader
- Designed meticulously for the bar grader’s eyes
- Logical and succinct construction for efficient memorization
- Tips, mnemonics and examples included for optimal comprehension and retention
- Hardcopy format
A Personal PrepPlan: a detailed daily study schedule customized for you
- Customized daily study schedule tailored to your personal and/or work schedule
- Optimally planned course of study from the program start date to the days of the Bar Exam
- Clear deadlines for submitting Essays and Performance Tests for Jay Bijlani’s grading
- Additional days off included, depending on your start date and personal and/or work schedule
Preliminary diagnosis of problem areas
- Diagnostic Essay and Performance Test questions assigned to jumpstart our focus on your problem areas in our first session
Three Skills and Strategies Sessions with Jay Bijlani
- Three personal, one-on-one tutoring sessions with former bar grader and professor Jay Bijlani – you are never delegated to anyone else!
- Each session lasts 1 hour, 15 minutes
- A trusted bond developed with a mentor who is invested in your success
- Sessions conducted over Zoom, FaceTime or in person
- Interactive targeting of your specific weaknesses on Essays, PT and/or MBEs
- Opportunities for improved understanding of the substantive law
All 15 Essays and Performance Tests graded personally by Jay Bijlani
- ALL targeted line-by-line feedback provided by Jay Bijlani himself – your assignments are never delegated to anyone else!
- A realistic bar score awarded by Jay Bijlani himself – he best understands the “minimum competence” standard
- Feedback that allows you easily apply lessons learned to other fact patterns
- Specific insight into what is most important to the bar graders given your limited time on the exam
- Specific Essays for grading submission curated by Jay Bijlani, each carefully selected for commonly tested content, embedded analytical tricks and other lessons to learn
- Flexible choice with the combination of Essays and Performance Tests you would like to have graded
Weekly Check-In Sessions with Jay Bijlani
- Opportunites to have Jay Bijlani personally answer your questions on: the substantive law and skills tested; memorization tools; time management; AND your non-academic concerns
- Each check-in can last up to 15 minutes
Subject-specific attack plans to significantly boost your performance on Essays and MBE
- Enhanced techniques for accurate spotting of major and minor issues tested on Essays
- Enhanced techniques for identification of the best answer choice on the MBE
Clearly defined, results-based strategies to answer any Essay, Performance Test and MBE
- 13 Essay video lectures presenting and applying the multistep process to each of the tested essay subjects
- 8 MBE video lectures presenting and applying the multistep process to each of the tested MBE subjects
- 2 Performance Test video lectures presenting and applying the multistep process to various objective and persuasive writing formats
- NO endless, passive substantive law lectures
Price: 6,250
Installment payment plan available at no extra cost.
The complete Program
Complete California Bar Tutoring.
With The Complete Program, experience legal education and bar review like they were meant to be: dedicated, laser-focused on building knowledge, skill and confidence. Intensive practice of the skills tested on the bar exam is critical to bar success. Receiving even more feedback personally from a former bar grader on multiple issues presents unmatched preparation for the California bar exam. By the end of this program there is arguably no one more familiar with your work than Jay Bijlani.
The Complete Program includes:
Substantive law outlines for each subject tested on the Essay and MBE sections
- Developed by a former bar grader
- Designed meticulously for the bar grader’s eyes
- Logical and succinct construction for efficient memorization
- Tips, mnemonics and examples included for optimal comprehension and retention
- Hardcopy format
A Personal PrepPlan: a detailed daily study schedule customized for you
- Customized daily study schedule tailored to your personal and/or work schedule
- Optimally planned course of study from the program start date to the days of the Bar Exam
- Clear deadlines for submitting Essays and Performance Tests for Jay Bijlani’s grading
- Additional days off included, depending on your start date and personal and/or work schedule
Preliminary diagnosis of problem areas
- Diagnostic Essay and Performance Test questions assigned to jumpstart our focus on your problem areas in our first session
Four Skills and Strategies Sessions with Jay Bijlani
- Four personal, one-on-one tutoring sessions with former bar grader and professor Jay Bijlani – you are never delegated to anyone else!
- Each session lasts 1 hour, 15 minutes
- A trusted bond developed with a mentor who is invested in your success
- Sessions conducted over Zoom, FaceTime or in person
- Interactive targeting of your specific weaknesses on Essays, PT and/or MBEs
- Opportunities for improved understanding of the substantive law
All 24 Essays and Performance Tests graded personally by Jay Bijlani
- ALL targeted line-by-line feedback provided by Jay Bijlani himself – your assignments are never delegated to anyone else!
- A realistic bar score awarded by Jay Bijlani himself – he best understands the “minimum competence” standard
- Feedback that allows you easily apply lessons learned to other fact patterns
- Specific insight into what is most important to the bar graders given your limited time on the exam
- Specific Essays for grading submission curated by Jay Bijlani, each carefully selected for commonly tested content, embedded analytical tricks and other lessons to learn
- Flexible choice with the combination of Essays and Performance Tests you would like to have graded
Weekly Check-In Sessions with Jay Bijlani
- Opportunites to have Jay Bijlani personally answer your questions on: the substantive law and skills tested; memorization tools; time management; AND your non-academic concerns
- Each check-in can last up to 15 minutes
Subject-specific attack plans to significantly boost your performance on Essays and MBE
- Enhanced techniques for accurate spotting of major and minor issues tested on Essays
- Enhanced techniques for identification of the best answer choice on the MBE
Clearly defined, results-based strategies to answer any Essay, Performance Test and MBE
- 13 Essay video lectures presenting and applying the multistep process to each of the tested essay subjects
- 8 MBE video lectures presenting and applying the multistep process to each of the tested MBE subjects
- 2 Performance Test video lectures presenting and applying the multistep process to various objective and persuasive writing formats
- NO endless, passive substantive law lectures
Price: 7,700
Installment payment plan available at no extra cost.