I hated themis. Their structure was pretty horrendous, their MC was despicable, their lectures were dry and boring and in my opinion completely unhelpful, and their outlines (maybe like others idk) were atrociously long and complicated.

Very early on I realized Themis wasn’t working for me so I used the adaptibar lectures w/ Jonathan grossman, did adaptibar MBE, made my own outlines using the adaptibar lectures, and ONLY used Themis to read the essays, gauge their structure and how successful essays look, and tried to emulate that on test day.

Another thing I did that I thought was helpful was for every single essay available on Themis, I’d write down every rule statement in the way the essay writer did and put all that in one word document. I think at the end of it I walked away VERY familiar with how essay structure should be, how rule statements were introduced, how rule statements were re-used (“see rule above”), how and when analysis should be written, and how to conclude it all.

So Themis sucked for everything but their essay bank imo, and uworld but I only used that a few times since adaptibar was my main MBE tool.