When comparing bar review courses, one of the most common questions students ask is:
"How many graded essays are included with BARBRI?"
The short answer for BARBRI's legacy Uniform Bar Exam (UBE) and state-specific bar review courses is simple. You'll receive unlimited essay grading and expert feedback throughout your bar prep experience.
Having an unlimited number of graded essays may sound really great. However, the real value isn't in the number of essays you can submit. It's in how you use the feedback to improve your writing and maximize your score on exam day.
Essay Grading Guided by a Proven Learning Process
In our experience, we’ve seen that submitting practice essay after practice essay without receiving and digesting feedback can slow your progress and reinforce bad habits. This is why BARBRI uses a different essay grading strategy.
BARBRI's approach focuses on helping you develop stronger writing habits through a combination of:
- Structured writing assignments
- Immediate learning opportunities
- Self-assessment exercises
- Personalized, yet rigorous, feedback from legal-expert graders
- Continuous improvement throughout the course
The goal isn't just to complete practice essays. It's to learn from every assignment and make measurable improvements before exam day.
Learn with Each Submission
Practice essays are a great way to learn how to write better essays AND continue to learn the law. Don’t cheat yourself out of one of your best learning opportunities because you don’t feel ready to submit essays for grading.
One of the biggest advantages of unlimited essay grading is the ability to receive individualized feedback throughout your preparation. BARBRI's bar exam writing experts can help you learn the substance you need as well as refine your essay writing skills. The individual feedback will help you understand where you will capture points, where you may lose points, and how to frame a better essay answer through guidance on:
- Issue spotting
- Rule statements
- Legal reasoning and analysis
- Organization and structure
- Time management strategies
Submitting essays as they are assigned during bar review will allow you to make adjustments, build confidence, and improve over time.
More Than Grading: BARBRIʼs Complete Essay Learning System
Essay feedback works best when paired with opportunities for self-analysis and review.
The BARBRI Bar Review writing curriculum encourages you to compare your answers with model responses and scoring guidance, helping you understand how high-scoring answers are constructed. This active review process reinforces learning and helps you recognize patterns that can be applied across multiple subjects and essay formats.
Unlimited Essay Grading for UBE + State-Specific Bar Prep
Whether you're preparing for the Uniform Bar Exam or a state-specific bar exam, quality feedback remains one of the most effective ways to improve your writing performance.
Unlimited essay grading from BARBRI gives you ongoing opportunities to practice under realistic exam conditions and receive crucial feedback to refine your approach to legal analysis and strengthen your overall writing skills. Because when it comes to bar exam essays, improvement comes not from the number of essays written, but from the lessons learned after each one.
What About the NextGen Bar Exam?
The NextGen UBE moves beyond traditional essay testing and includes integrated legal tasks and practical skills-based writing assignments.
While the format differs from the legacy UBE, your preparation with BARBRI NextGen Bar Review still provides the personalized guidance and expert feedback needed to strengthen your written legal analysis, communication, and exam performance. The focus remains the same: helping you develop the skills necessary to succeed on the NextGen bar exam and in legal practice.
Interested in reading more? Fill out the form to read the full article.