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WHO I AM
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Tutoring, Tailored To Fit Your Life
Tutoring, Tailored To Fit Your Life
Since 2000, Steven has been customizing California Bar Exam prep and Uniform Bar Examination tutoring programs for people all across the globe, focused on a unique, individualized approach to learning.
Steven believes in passing the California bar exam through studying smarter, not harder, and optimizing your limited time to study. From first timers to repeaters, government workers to law firm associates and partners, Steven has crafted individualized plans to fit any (or no) work schedule.
Not all California bar exam tutors are created equal. Steven’s unique process has been developed to give you the most efficient path to passing the California bar.
Recent Testimonials
Parent
Our son had taken the California Bar twice and barely missed passing the second time. He was quite disappointed and considered moving on to a career with his JD and maybe take the Bar sometime in the future. I heard about Steven from a friend who’s daughter had gone through his program after failing the first exam...
Repeater
While no one wants to have to take the Bar 3 times, I could not imagine doing this process without the Steven’s help. Having previously used Bar/Bri for my first two attempts, I knew that I needed a more guided and personal approach for my third attempt. Within the first week of contacting Steven and signing up with the program...
Attorney Applicant
Steven was recommended to me after I failed the California Bar Exam as an attorney applicant on my first attempt. As an attorney barred in another jurisdiction that had been practicing for 7 years, clerked for two judges at my home state’s supreme court, and had served in the USAF JAG Corps, I figured I wouldn’t have any problems passing...
First Timer
I took the California Bar exam for the first time in July ... sorry, no, September ... wait, my bad, October 2020, in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. While I probably would have been just fine studying independently with Bar/Bri materials alone, I knew that I wanted more accountability and personalized attention...
WHY CHOOSE CALWEASEL
What You Get
Individual Focus
This California bar exam tutoring program is unmatched in the industry. Steven will work with you himself, with no other tutors or assistance. You won’t be handed off to an assistant with no teaching experience…or to a current student! When you hire Steven, you hire a complete, real-time partner in your exam success journey. Not a recent bar passer. Not an ill-defined assistant or “expert.” And definitely not a current bar applicant!
Peace of Mind
Have you been anxious about the Bar Exam or about a law school final? Steven's California bar exam prep program begins and ends with strategies to help you reduce anxiety and maximize point-generation on test day. Forget perfection. Our aim is to use the best tools in the industry at the right time to produce a prepared student on exam day!
THE HOOK UP: BOOKS EDITION
California Bar Prep Books
Tutoring not for you? Looking for more of a self-help solution to passing the bar? These two books have helped hundreds of students succeed in their bar exam journey. Why not you?
Essay and Performance Test Strategy
Using Past Exams for Present Success
If you’re at this part of the web page, it’s because you already know the best California bar exam prep strategy: practicing exams always beats long-term memorization that you’re going to forget anyway. Good job!
At the three tabs below, you will find Baby Bar Essays, Cal Bar Essays, and Cal Bar PTs from 2002 – 2011. (Baby Bar and Cal Bar exams from 2012 – present are located here.)
The Cal Bar Performance Tests located here (and on the Cal Bar’s website from February 2012 – February 2017) are from the older, 3-hour exam format. They are useful to identify PT exam types, and to see how PT issues are implicated, but you should not use them for practice exams since they are twice as long as the current 90-minute format.
Since you’re here, want some help to figure out which essays to use? Which PTs to use? And how to maximize point generation?
As a California bar exam tutor, Steven’s essay approach is unique within the industry because he covers all three components of essay writing: issue spotting, rules, and presentation. And Steven invented a brilliant strategy in June to avoid Scrolling Hell in outlining essays.
Digital Scratch Pad? Who needs a stinkin’ Digital Scratch Pad? Maximizing and minimizing continually while writing an essay?
Not here!
Other California bar tutors complicate their programs with highlighters, folding sheets of scratch paper, and hundreds of paper clips. Why? You’re here to generate points, not do origami!
My tutoring techniques focus on what’s important: saving time, avoiding Scrolling Hell on the PTs, and—most importantly—passing the California bar!
First Time Taking the Bar Exam? Repeating? I Have Helped Many Others, Just Like You. My California Bar Plan Will Help You Master Your Upcoming Bar Exam.
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