ОMG the grid is absolutely brilliant

😭 thank you for this!!! I have been struggling with this so much.. I am putting this to use immediately

REALLY HELPFUL. THANK YOU

Thank you so much! A little confused, so discussion should only really be around 3 paragraphs as a whole? The sample answers are all something like 3-5 pages so I wasn't sure if I didn't hear it right!

I found this video on a whim and have found it significantly more helpful than commercial bar prep/anything else MPT related. Thank you for uploading this and for doing so in such a simple and digestible way! I echo all the other comments.

Such a helpful video. Thanks, Erica

Thank you so much , I was really lost, when I used Barbri MPT method and it made totally lost and stressed out. I think I'll get this book and use your method. I was anxious but when I saw your method I felt much better , now I know how to practice and connect things together

I am taking an MPT class in my last semester, professor not very good but the way you explained this method has been making me feel less anxious and it just seems less daunting since the organization part was what I struggled with the most. The bad thing is that IL for Feb 2022 will not give us paper copies of the exam, just scratch paper...I'm a little bummed out about this....I'm not even going to get into how unfair this is.....

My life saver.

Thanks so much for this valuable advice.

Alum here 🤍🤍

I am taking the February 2021 Bar Exam. I just found your video hoping it would clarify something found in my AmeriBar materials. I want to thank you, because this video was so helpful to me!

Thank you very much for sharing . God bless your kind heart.

I could kiss you. Thank you for this approach.

#blackgirlmagic

Thank you so much! This is immensely helpful. The grid will be helpful for the new online/remote bar exam this year!

Thanks so much for this. It was very helpful.

thank you! i was having a hard time using a roadmap because i just couldnt figure out how to organize my work product and my roadmap is all over the place. kind of counterintuitive because its called a “ roadmap” for a reason yet im still lost. haha. and then I found your video. after i watched it everything became clearer! cant thank you enough! taking it this tuesday!

#eaglepride! Thank you!

Thank you!!

You blessed me. Thank you for this. Truly grateful.

Hi Erica, Thanks for your video. I have the book that you suggested. The only thing I'm a bit confused about is, once the grid is done, and we are transferring the notes from the grid into our work product. Do you use a method to fill in the information using a top down approach or horizontal approach. Ex. Issue #1 has pg 5, 6, ,7, 8 dispersed via all sorts of information. and issue #2 uses pg. 6, pg. 9, etc. Do you go through the grid by working first completing all the information that deals with Issue #1 (horizontal) or the work through each document into subissues.

Ms. Lindsey - I just watched this video. I am SO grateful for you. This chart solves EXACTLY a problem I have been having keeping track of the content without a highlighter or sticker flags. THANK YOU SO MUCH ❤️!

Hello, I just wanted to say that I appreciate your approach and will try it on my next practice PT. I have been struggling with my outline organization. I have a question though. What do you recommend if there are only cases in the library with no statues? Read the cases first and then the file? Thank you for your time.

I heard this video was on YT, and literally 10 minutes prior to a test in Legal Writing (1L), I pulled up your video and ran through it. I couldn't catch everything, but the chart really saved me. I tend to "go off kilter" a lot. It helped me. Thank you.

Thanks for this.

Hi! Totally loved this. But quick question, do we get scratch paper when we are attempting exam on the laptop in New York bar? If anyone can tell me, or have seen the same on New York bar, it would be a life-saver. Cheers! Thanks a lot again, Erica!

Thank you!!!!!!

Wonderful my dear sistren. Blessings

I'm trying your method with an MPT (In re Whirley July 2016) that has (5) statutes, (2) cases, and (4) task issues. I'm having a difficult time organizing my template according to your instruction because there are several statutes that generally apply to each task issue which are actually found in the file transcript and not in the task memo. I like your approach a lot but can't seem to apply it to this specific MPT. Any suggestions? Where am I going wrong? Thank you!

Hi. Your format is really working wonders for me. Thank you so much for your insight on MPT. Am preparing for the February 2018 California bar. It will be the 2nd time the MPT format will be administered. I have a quick question. Supposing you are faced with an MPT that has a library without the statutes provided, do you advise reading the library after reading the instructions and task memo then the file or should one read the file then the library. I read the library first to find the law but sometimes in doing that I end up getting confused in finding the real issues required by the call of the question. Thanks in advance.

For filling in the template for the Facts parts, how do you know which facts are relevant to that task? I see you have facts referred to in your template but how did you know which facts in the fact section to extract? Sometimes the Task isn't as clear cut as looking for statements that refer to "head" injuries. For since, I just did a memo that had me determine if a person was liable for crop dusting under limited liability under an LLC without being involved as one of the tasks. I ended up predicting which facts that may be relevant to the issue and inserting it into the column which was ineffective because my predicting relevant facts before reading the cases was not effective for me. What am I doing wrong? I am so confused on how to apply this method. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Brandon

Black Girl Magic!

Yasss sis! Thanks for the PowerPoints. I'm coming from Florida to Colorado and MPT/MEE are new sections that Florida doesn't test on.

I practiced using the grid today it saved me about 10 mins and I knew what I was looking for! However mine got a little messy because I had 3 issues with 4 file documents and 2 cases. How can I keep the chart organized? And any other advice I would be glad to take! Thank you!

I have a question about your approach on the MPT. I was taught to read the task memo and any documents referred to in the task memo, then read the library, then finish reading any and all remaining documents in the file. I have found this to not work for me because I don't know what portions of the case I want to use either as support or to distinguish, etc. So I am really just asking if I heard you correctly in the video that you read the task memo, then read only the statues in the library to get a basic understanding of the law, then go back to the file and read the remaining file facts, before moving on to the library. Is this what you stated and used during your MPT? Thanks in advance!

Thank you

One (very small) issue with this approach might be that test takers may be strictly prohibited from writing anything on scratch paper prior to the "open your packet and begin" announcement - just make sure whatever you do, you don't break any rules set by the monitors - every exam will be a little different. The grid is a great idea but you may be required to quickly sketch it out after the testing period has begun. Just be vigilant either way.

The simplicity and thoroughness of your method is just what I need for this part of the exam. I am taking the July 2017 California bar exam with the first time 90 minute test and I feel confident that I can get this done. This makes it much easier to use all the facts and law. So when the graders align their grid with your grid the points should hopefully be forthcoming. Thanks for all your efforts. Much appreciated.

well done thanks for the insight.

This was the most useful video I have seen on how to do the performance test. The grid approach that you teach was an absolute life saver. I've taken a lot of performance tests but I was never able to put everything together and kept having to flip around the library during the exam to find where the relevant things were. This helped me organize and outline my arguments at the same time. I watched this video during my lunch break on the 3rd day of the California bar exam and it helped me improve my performance a ten fold. The performance test on the California bar is 3 hours long and there were about 10 cases, memos, and statute pages to keep track of and I wouldn't have been able to get through it without you. Thank you so much and God bless you for posting this.

What a great demonstration. Thank you counselor.

Thanks for sharing this information!!