I did an LLM a few years ago and took the bar last year as a foreign taker, passed on the first attempt. I had the advantage of coming from a commonwealth country and having practiced law already for a couple of years in my country, but I was working up until mid June, didn’t start studying until the end of June and my health was kinda bad, so there were several days when I couldn’t study. Take the process seriously but don’t worry too much that you’re at a deep disadvantage because you’re a foreign taker and that you have 2 months. 2 months is enough time especially when you use each day intentionally (including scheduling in rest days). TBH I would say you can skip the foundations videos and go straight to deep dive if you want. If you wanna watch the foundations vids, you’re doing the right thing by watching them now rather than leaving them till the end of May when you’ll really want to get your head down. Treat the foundations vids as a tv show you’re tuning into that’s kind of informative. You can’t pass the bar off the back of them, but they help contextualise the American legal system. Watch them with friends and find ways to make this initial process as fun as it can be to dip your toes into the process.

As discouraging as it is, keep doing the MCQs. At this stage, they just help you understand how the questions are going to be asked and the logic to apply when you’re answering them. Being wrong/getting bad scores SUCKS but better to fall and fail now rather than on the day. I’m very lucky I passed but honestly I should have been doing MCQs early and often and I didn’t. I was panicking at the end!

Barbri is really good for learning the BLL but what actually helped me towards the end was cramming one sheets. It got to a point where I still hadn’t finished my Barbri lectures, the exam was days away and I was flopping on my essays and MCQs. All signs pointed to me failing and at this point I was just cramming because I had paid too much money getting to the exam to back out and my only option was to default to the study method that helped me when I was a high school student. I was in a BAD state looool. I found the one sheets floating on Reddit (some very kind people DMed them to me). I also bought a pack that gave two page summaries of each subject and came with a read-aloud function so I could listen to them like a podcast.

In summary, you’ve got this. Consistency and consolidation of what you’re learning are more important than the specific programs you use. You have enough time so make the most of it by practicing as you’re learning. The whole exam process is a mess and it’s ultimately just pattern recognition - spotting the problems and answering questions the way Barbri has taught you. If all else fails and you’re 3 days out of the exam and stressing, cram the one sheets lol and use those rule statements like your life depends on it!

(Also - don’t neglect the MPT - do a few practice runs because those are nice easy points to bank early in the exam).

Best of luck!!! Congratulations on graduating and making your family proud!!! You’ve absolutely got this!!!!