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Avoid the last-minute cram. Use spaced repetition to practice strategically for the essay portion of the bar exam. Build recall of the rules in your library through manageable daily practice, and improve your typing ability.
Rule libraries are available for the essay portion of the Uniform Bar Exam (UBE) and the California Bar Exam. A rule library covering issues within the starred topics of the NextGen Uniform Bar Exam's integrated question sets is also available.
Other jurisdictions that write their own exam are not covered.
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These are sample rule statements from the library. Each one is a Quick Rule, the short version you might write under time pressure. No account needed. Keywords are bolded, and tests and standards are underlined.
Try it here, then study on your computer. Bengos is built for a physical keyboard, the way you will type on exam day.
Every rule in the library is written to be typed like that one.
Bengos works in three steps.
Its rule-statement library is ready on day one. Nothing to build and nothing to import.
Choose your subjects. In Learn mode you type the full Study Rule with its structure visible: keywords bolded, tests underlined.
Rate your confidence after each passage. That rating sets when the rule comes back to you.
Bengos does one thing: it has you type rule statements aimed at bar exam essays. Full treatment of the law is best left to bar prep programs: this is not a complete rule set, and it does not replace a full outline. Use it alongside a course, or on its own when full prep is not an option.
Bengos gives you a framework for the systematic review and retention of the rules in your library for the essay portion of the bar exam. The framework is spaced repetition, the practice of scheduling reviews around the forgetting curve. Hermann Ebbinghaus (1850 to 1909), who first measured that curve, found that spreading practice out over time works better for long-term memory than massing it into one sitting. Bengos is built around this principle.
After each pass through a rule statement, you give the rating yourself: Not Comfortable, Familiar, or Know It Well. That rating is the only input to Bengos's scheduling algorithm. Rate a rule well and the gap before it returns grows; rate it Not Comfortable and it comes back soon. Your typing speed and accuracy are recorded for you, but they never move the schedule.
Spaced repetition lets you focus on the rules you do not know well, saving you time. Each day you get a short list instead of rereading the whole library.
For the essay portion of the UBE and the California Bar Exam, you can study the full library, which is intended to cover the scope the examining boards list as testable, or only the rules for issues that released exams have tested. The tested rules are roughly half of each library. You choose at sign-up and can change it later.
The rule statement by itself earns little. State it correctly and fast, and you have more time for the most important part of the essay: applying the law to the facts.
Many candidates never attempted to write out a rule statement before the exam. Writing one for the first time takes real effort and some creativity, and a candidate can easily get lost in writing the rule statement alone. Having read outlines does not help much, because outlines are not written in the form a bar exam answer needs.
Bengos gives every rule two editions.
Rule statements for issues that have appeared on released UBE or California exams show how often each issue has been tested. You can use that history to find those exams and their published answers, and study how the issues were tested. NextGen decks do not show it, because the National Conference of Bar Examiners (NCBE) has not released questions from a past NextGen administration.
Zero to three flames show how often the issue has appeared on released exams, so you can set priorities when time is short.
Each pill names the administration and question number, so you can pull the released question and its published answers, and supplement your study by attempting a real exam question.
Each rule carries a note on a mistake test takers commonly make with it.
Each library holds the rule statements for the part of its exam you write out from memory, ready on the day you sign up.
~260 of them have been tested on a released exam between 2013 and 2026, and you can choose to practice only that subset.
~430 of them have been tested on a released exam between 2012 and 2026, and you can choose to practice only that subset.
The rules cover issues within the starred topics, which NCBE expects candidates to know from memory. The exam provides no cases, statutes, or regulations for those topics. NCBE has not released questions from a past NextGen administration, so this library shows no testing history and has no narrowed scope to choose.
Bengos does not have a rule statement library for some jurisdictions, because the written portion of the exam is specific to each jurisdiction or tests different law. Today that means Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Louisiana, Mississippi, Nevada, South Dakota, Virginia, and Puerto Rico. The FAQ lists every jurisdiction, the library it gets, and the reason where there is none.
All of it runs from one dashboard.
Today's work, the exam countdown, and your coverage and confidence by subject on one page.
Mark key phrases, keep private notes, and filter a session to your own tags.
Speed and accuracy per session, and the words you mistype most.
Practice toward 50 words per minute. That is likely enough to write an answer of workable length in the time each essay allows, with margin for exam-day conditions. The target is an estimate: how we arrived at it.
Learn and Review are the two modes, and while you are still taking on new rules you do both in about ninety-five minutes a day, starting three months out. It does not have to be one sitting, and we will remind you to take breaks. These figures are estimates, so adjust your study time to what you see in practice. The FAQ gives the daily time for other start dates.
Those breaks are a good time for the rest of your plan: your bar prep course, multiple-choice practice, and full essays and performance tests. Bengos is a supplement to a study strategy, not a replacement for one.
Once Learn has no new rules left, all that remains each day is clearing the Review deck, which runs about fifty minutes for the full scope and about twenty-five for previously tested rules only. Spaced repetition is what keeps it that short: each day's list holds only what is actually due.
Start as early as you can. Two months out is a practical minimum for the full scope, not the date to wait for. Typing speed and recall both build gradually, so a longer window means shorter days rather than more work, and no rush in the final weeks. One flat price covers access through your exam week whenever you buy it, so an earlier start adds study days and costs nothing extra. Work you cover steadily is work you are not compressing into the last weeks before the exam.
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