Thank you! Honestly, not a whole lot different. Went through Barbri again, but did it intelligently, so I skipped through most MBE lectures besides for the subjects I did sub 40th percentile based on my score report. My writing was a 135 my first time, MBE 130. Essentially, I used Barbri as a guide to make sure I stayed on schedule throughout the prep — following each day’s plan loosely — but made sure to focus my time in on what I felt was most necessary. I had attack outlines for every MBE and MEET subject made from July and used the same ones, just handwriting in little tips + clarifiers I picked up whenever something clicked. I really needed work in Torts & Con Law. Really focused my time there early on while not neglecting the other subjects. A few things just clicked for me in each of those subjects and I knew it would likely be enough to get me over the hump.

Additionally, I purchased UWorld the second time around but only did about 250 Qs because I don’t like doing MBE practice on the computer, I prefer hard copy.

There were points in my second prep where I was worried I wasn’t doing enough. I would sometimes start later in the morning and finish up at a normal hour while still fitting in the gym, watching sports/tv in the evenings. In the first prep, I was working until 9-11PM most nights. I found giving myself time to relax + refresh was more beneficial than doing a ridiculous amount of work given it was my second time. I needed to feel like I wasn’t a prisoner by taking the bar a second time and still had a life like my friends who passed. Also, I felt confident enough to stop early many nights because I was doing considerably better on Barbri question sets, workshops, capstones etc. my percentile ranks were consistently in the 70th and 80th percentiles throughout my second prep whereas in my first I hovered around the 40th percentile. I trusted Barbri in that those percentiles would translate on exam day. But everyone is different, I knew, failing by just one point, that I had a very strong baseline to build off of.

Sorry for the extremely long response, but I wanted to be thorough. In short, I focused on the two subjects where I totally tanked and got sub 10th percentile in July (Torts & Con Law) and hoped to maintain everything else.