Bar Prep Debate

There always seems to be the big debate about who has he best Bar Prep Program.  Barbri is usually the King of Bar Prep Programs, I mean that is what they built their company around so it makes sense that they have a great success rate and are heavily promoted at law schools.  Kaplan is making huge strides and catching up to law school students who wish to have a Bar Prep program but don't want to spend as much as the Barbri program.
I have used both I can tell you a few differences.
Kaplan offers unlimited (meaning limited only to the prompts they have) graded essays.  If you feel essay writing is your weakness this might be a good option.
Kaplan's multiples are harder, and more closely aligned to the MBE difficulty level.  Barbri didn't throw you softballs all the time, but they had a decent mix of easy to hard, Kaplan basically just had the hard one.  The Kaplan logic was that if you only work on the hard ones you will do better on the easy ones.
Barbri claims that 100% of the people that complete at least 75% of the Bar Prep Program pass the bar.
Barbri has AMP for the areas that you are not doing so great in, meaning extra work on Blackline law and multiples on just the blackline reading/work.

After doing both programs and listing to my friends who used AmeriBar or other programs here is what I think the biggest take away is.
YOU MUST DO A BAR PREP PROGRAM - and I don't mean pay for it and then do the minimum work, you have to actively study and be engaged when doing bar prep.  The reason bar prep programs work is that you are following a plan to cover all the key areas, learn local distinctions, and are practicing essays and multiple choice questions.

I was told that if you do 2,000 multiple choice questions and read why answers are correct your chances of passing increase by 20%.  This indicates that if you do the three products below you increase your chance of passing by 20%.
   

So what is the bottom line for the Great Bar Prep Debate - find a program that works to how you learn and commit to doing the entire program and try and hit 2000 multiple choice questions.  That is the only way you will pass, by studying and doing the work to learn what you need for the Bar Exam, because sadly law school does not teach you every single thing you need for the bar exam, and even if it did you would have to memorize if for 3 years.  It is easier to review and learn new material - so make sure you study.