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The bar is a reasoning exam wearing a memory costume.
Law school rewards students who can hold an argument in their head and rotate it. Brainback trains that — case briefs, IRAC frameworks, and hypos — without letting the AI write the answer. Efficiency mode drafts the memos that don't need to stay in your head.
Brief one case in Learn mode on day one. The friction — how long it takes to write a real IRAC — is the whole point.
An honest before-and-after — the specific gaps Brainback closes for a student in this stage of the arc.
Same problem. Same student. Two different definitions of “productive.”
The actual daily shape of a Brainback week for this stage. Adjust for your own load — the rhythm compounds even if the volume varies.
20 recall cards AM. One Learn brief for each of tomorrow's classes.
Same. Explain-back on today's most confusing case.
Case briefs in Learn. Memo drafting in Efficiency. Do not mix them.
Deep Learn session on an essay-format practice question.
Recall pass. Rest evening. The reading load caught up with you.
Full essay practice: 45 minutes, Learn mode grading. Score the IRAC.
Brain score. 20 cards. Plan the week's cases.
None of these are automatic. Each is a signal that the product is working — or isn’t. If you don’t hit the week-4 milestone, revisit the plan.
First cold-call where you deliver a real IRAC instead of a summary.
Brain score in the 60s. Recall queue at 200 cards. The rhythm is running.
Essay grades track the Brain score in the class. First honest signal.
Recall queue at 400+. MPRE prep is a two-week focus, not a two-month scramble.
The 3L cycle of essay writing has been Learn-mode-graded for 18 months. The bar is a checkpoint.
Not a magic diet. A specific sequence of habits Brainback builds around you. The pace is designed for a student with a normal life outside coursework.
Add all four core subjects (Contracts, Torts, Civ Pro, Crim) as Learn subjects. Do one case brief per class in Learn mode this week.
Every case brief in Learn mode. Every cold-call preparation gets one explain-back. Recall queue fills with holdings.
First real Brain score. It'll be uncomfortable if you were AI-briefing before — the number is honest.
Weekly essay practice on Learn mode's essay track. Recall queue is now 200+ cards.
Two weeks. Practice essays daily. Recall passes daily. No new content — retrieve what you have.
Essays are IRAC muscle memory. Doctrine is at fingertips because it's been retrieved for weeks.
All seven product surfaces are always on. But this stage of the arc weights them differently. Below are the ones a law school student ends up leaning on hardest.
Every case brief. Every IRAC. Every hypo.
The one thing that catches 'I recite the rule but can't apply it'.
Holdings, rules, exceptions. Retrieved on schedule, not the night before.
Memos, motions, appellate practice drafts. Everything you're not graded on for reasoning.
Recall, calibration and explain-back per course — visible weekly, not at the curve.
Add these as Learn subjects and Brainback treats every problem inside them as academic — everything else goes to Efficiency mode. Every subject below has its own dedicated page with topics, common mistakes, and hint examples.
Recommended plan: Student annual — $59/yr. 1L → 3L continuous use. Annual is the sanest option. See all plans →
We say no to some prospects. Better to be honest here than to have you sign up and churn in week two.
I stopped outsourcing my case briefs. My cold-call answers stopped being disasters.
Yes for every code we've reviewed. Brainback refuses to produce IRACs, briefs, or exam answers — which is exactly the line honor codes draw.
In Learn mode, correctly-formatted citations are expected in your attempts. The tutor won't produce them for you but will correct your errors.
Learn mode has essay and multi-select tracks. The MBE-style practice runs Socratic on wrong answers rather than just marking them incorrect.
A few — mostly for CLE and specialty exams (patent bar, tax LLM). The workflow is the same as 1L: attempt, hint, recall.
Yes, for memos, cover letters, and non-graded work. The classifier keeps IRAC-format questions in Learn mode automatically.
The lines between stages are messy. If more of the day-in-the-life above sounds like someone else, follow the link.
→for law school
Student annual ($59/yr) covers the full three-year arc.