A tour of what’s behind the login on rulethebar.com. Every screen in a browser frame below is the real app UI — it plays itself, and you can take over any frame and click through it yourself.
Flashcards for recognition and Rule Recall for typing the rule cold — the two screens you'll spend the most hours in.
Three steps, no shortcuts. Write the rule from memory. Submit, and the governing rule opens beside your attempt with every buzzword you captured in green and every one you missed underlined in red — plus the percentage. Then rate yourself 1 to 5 and spaced repetition picks the interval.
Buzzwords are the terms your wording is checked against. You can switch the scoring off, hide the highlights to read the clean rule, or edit the terms yourself. Then rate yourself 1 to 5 — the rating sets when the rule comes back: again today, one day, three days, a week, two weeks.
The real Rule Recall screen · type it, submit, toggle the highlights, rate it
The deck comes to you lowest-confidence first. Flip the card, read the black-letter rule with its mnemonic and citation, then rate how well you knew it — 1 to 5. That rating is the whole engine: it sets when the rule comes back.
Every rule carries a mnemonic and the case or rule number it comes from, so you're never memorizing a floating sentence.
Build a deck from your own rules plus any base subjects you pick, or paste a whole list at once — Title — Rule, one per line. Custom cards run on the same recall engine and the same spaced-repetition queue.
Same bank, four postures. Switch modes below and the question screen changes what it will and won't tell you. Missed Concepts regroups every concept you've gotten wrong, shows you the different ways it's tested, and retests you at random.
MBE-style questions across every tested subject. Answer in Drill and the reasoning opens immediately — the takeaway, the rule, why the right answer wins, why each wrong answer fails, and what percentage of everyone else picked it.
Drill · the reasoning opens the moment you answer
Both screens below are live · pick a mode, then answer a question
The real question-bank hub · pick a mode, choose subjects, switch the source
The real drill screen · strike what you can rule out, then submit
Also on iOS — same bank, same account, same explanations. See the app page →
The practice screen keeps count: how much of the bank you've seen, what your accuracy is, and where you left off.
Switch the bank above and the same screen serves Florida-law questions instead. The licensed NCBE source is MBE-only, so that picker only appears on the MBE bank.
Real past bar essays, grouped by administration. Open one, read the actual fact pattern, and tap the facts that trigger issues — each one tells you the issue and how the rule gets applied. The screen is the same on every deck; the essays are the ones your exam actually sets — Florida Bar essays, MEE essays, or California essays and the Performance Test.
Then reveal the study-guide model answer and compare structure against your own outline. You check your work against what really earned points.
The real Essay Lab · open an essay, spot the issues, outline, then compare
Full subject overview lectures, and the outline library for the state-specific decks.
Doctrinal lectures, plus jurisdiction lectures matched to the bar you're sitting. They're a one-time $49 add-on on Basic and MCQ, and included with Licensed — and they aren't on sale yet: the add-on opens once the library is finished.
Doctrinal lectures cover every MBE subject. Jurisdiction lectures follow the bar you told us you're sitting — Florida or California distinctions, in the order you'll meet them.
Preview of the lecture library · open a subject, play one and follow the synced rules
Outlines, high-yield cheat sheets, and memorization charts for the state-specific decks — read the full text on-site or download the typeset PDF to print and annotate.
Outlines are deliberately condensed: distilled from the official examiner outlines down to the heavily tested rules, so a subject stays reviewable before exam day.
The real materials library · filter, open a subject, read one
Also on iOS — same library, same reader, same PDF download. See the app page →
Confidence ratings and answer history roll up into one picture of where you actually stand.
How many rules you've studied and by which method — typed recall or flashcards — because a rule you can recognize is not a rule you can write. Retention is the share you graded 4 or 5 on review.
Per-subject bars switch between rule confidence and MCQ accuracy, so a subject that looks finished in one mode can't hide behind the other.
All of it is the same data as the web app — study on either and the numbers agree.
The real dashboard · the page you land on after logging in
Study Buddy puts you in a live room with people sitting the same bar you are.
Host a room and invite up to five partners, or join with a six-character code. You drill the same rules or answer the same question privately, then compare before you talk it through. No clock, no scores.
Everyone's attempt is hidden until the host reveals — then you read the governing rule side by side.
Everyone answers the same MCQ privately — then the split shows who picked what.
A real Study Buddy room · four people on the same question, then the reveal
Everything on this page, on your phone, synced to your account. iPhone & Android · free with every plan.
The real flashcard screen — tap it to flip
One payment for your sitting. If it doesn't go your way, send us your score notification and we extend your access to the next exam at no additional cost.
Full access to your deck, materials, and question banks straight through your scheduled sitting — no monthly billing to babysit.
Email us your score notification and we extend your access to the next exam free. No claim of guaranteed passage — just more time, on us.
First-year doctrinal rules on the same recall engine.
The same rules-first engine, rebuilt around the NextGen bar exam format.
Everything above is the product. This part is the fine print we'd want before spending a dollar on bar prep.
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