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Bengos is a spaced-repetition platform for rule recall on the essay portion of the bar exam, by typing or on flashcards. You study the rule statements for the issues your exam tends to test, over and over, on a schedule that brings each rule back for review at spaced intervals. The goal is that on exam day the rules come back to you with less hesitation.
Unsuccessful bar essays tend to be short. Sometimes the writer knew the rule in general terms but could not recall it quickly or type it out with confidence, and time ran out just as they tried to develop their analysis. This affects candidates whose first language may not be English, as well as STEM graduates whose training rarely involved writing long essays. Whatever the reason, the answers come out too short or underdeveloped.
Studying more law alone may not fix a short essay. The other part is making rule statements automatic, so that recalling and typing them takes less effort and exam time goes to analysis instead of remembering.
Bengos is built on that idea. You practice by typing rule statements for the essay subjects, so rule recall and typing share one session instead of competing for study time. Your speed and accuracy are measured on each passage. The same rules are also on flashcards, on the same schedule. If your typing speed is already where it needs to be, you can study the rules on flashcards alone.
Not every part of the law shows up in the essays. The multiple-choice Multistate Bar Examination tests each subject in full, down to minor exceptions and edge cases. The essays historically keep to a core set of big-picture ideas.
The essays test narrower law but a wider set of skills: reading the fact pattern, spotting the issues, recalling the rules, applying them to the facts, organizing the answer, and typing it all before time runs out.
Bengos has rule libraries for the essay portion of the Uniform Bar Exam, for the integrated question sets of the NextGen Uniform Bar Exam, and for the essay portion of the California Bar Exam.
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