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Should I apply for Barbri to study NY bar?  Almost all law school student here do that, but my concern is whether studying on my own will work well for me without attending its lectures, given I got an old set of Barbri textbooks at Ebay and got sufficient outlines.

Barbri's course costs more than $3500.  It is pretty big money.  On the other hand, I can get old full version textbooks at Ebay, less than $1000.   As far as I researched in the web, what I will need to do in the lecture of 3.5 hours every weekday from end of May to early July is just taking note to fill in blanks in the handouts.  Some say this helps us remember important concept and Barbri's professors are wonderful, others say this is waste of time and money if you can study on your own.

According to blogs written by past Japanese LLM students, most of them seemed to join Barbri's lecture, though some of them did not.  However,  what I should not miss here is the people who record their study on their blogs are likely to be diligent enough to attend Barbri classes without fail.  Also, the students who failed this exam will probably not disclose how they studied to public.

In my experience, I passed Japanese bar exam without attending basic lectures at cram school, which cost more than 500,000 yen, maybe nearly 1 million yen.  That is partly because I can control myself to study on a daily basis and partly because I am enough patient to study on my own.

I know even if I failed, that is not a big deal for me because I won't stay this country next year.  Yet, I still feel hisitation to do that because I will have one regrettable issue if I failed, like "I should have applied for Barbri as I expected."  Actually, I have not yet made this big decision, but the deadline of Ebay is coming soon.