The last New York bar exam is over and the clock starts
ticking for the UBE in New York for July 2016.
Here is what was tested for the NY bar exam essays:
Essay 1: NY
Family Law and equitable distribution – pension/commercial property, other property
(easement, landlord)
Essay 2: Criminal
Law – arson, conspiracy, criminal solicitation, withdrawal
Essay 3: Corporations
– interested directors, voting, requirements contract, substantial impairment
Essay 4: New
York Practice – tort action, contributory negligence, comparative negligence,
venue, Rule 16
Essay 5: Wills
and Trusts – pourover trust, amendable, corporation by reference, power of
attorney, inheritance rights from class gift, adopted child
The MPT was a
memorandum on workers compensation.
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Solutions for Success!
The bar exam is over and the waiting begins. North
Carolina is usually one of the first states to release its results in
approximately a month. Then the states begin to roll in, one after another.
For now, take the time to relax and have fun. You
deserve it. There will be enough time to fret and wait for your results.
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Solutions for Success!
Most students are finished their bar exams, but there
are a few states that are sitting for their state essays today. Students from
Massachusetts, New Jersey, Nevada and, of course, California are working on
their bar exams today. Good luck on your final day of the exam.
You can do this – you can pass the bar exam.
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Solutions for Success!
Today is the MBE for everyone taking the bar, no
matter where you are taking the bar exam (except for Louisiana and Washington).
Relax and be confident. Pace yourself. Remember, 1.6 minutes a question. Keep
your time. You must answer every question. You have studied hard for this day
and you will perform to the best of your ability. Good luck to everyone. Keep
believing in yourself.
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Solutions for Success!
Today is the bar exam. Relax, be confident and do
your thing. You have studied hard for this day and you will perform to the best
of your ability. Tonight, go back to your home or to your hotel and rest. Don’t
do anymore studying for the MBE. Eat, watch a little television and then go to
sleep. You will be so tired, you will be asleep before your head hits your
pillow. But it will be a well earned rest. Good luck to everyone. Keep
believing in yourself. This is the first day of your life as an attorney.
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Solutions for Success!
You are almost to the finish line. Get ready today
by relaxing and being confident in your abilities.
You have been preparing for
your chance to be a lawyer for 3 years or more. You can do this. Go to your
hotel room or stay home and try to have a quiet, restful day. No upsets and no
panic attacks are allowed. Review your essay notes today, get to bed early and
relax. Even if you can’t sleep, lie down with the lights off and get some rest.
Your body will thank you tomorrow during the bar exam.
Wake up early on Tuesday, get to the exam site in
plenty of time to get registered and kick the crap out of this bar. Make sure
you have a positive attitude and be confident in your abilities. Do well, my
friends. You can do this. Good luck to
all.
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Solutions for Success!
It is now 2 days to the bar exam. Let’s talk about
what you should do the day before the exam.
Take Monday off so you can rest and be alert during
the exam. Keep the final day low key and try not to think about the exam. If
you are staying at a hotel, get to your hotel early, check in and relax. Keep
your anxiety under control and you’ll be fine. Work on being calm and
collected.
The Night Before the Exam
Eat small meals on Monday – you want to eat
something that gives you some strength but nothing that you know can make you
feel sick. You know your own body, so play it smart. Avoid anything that makes
you feel queasy. Don’t drink alcohol, even if you think it will calm your
nerves – you do not want to be foggy Tuesday morning.
The night before the exam is the one time you may
want to read a little material or study because you probably will have trouble
sleeping on Monday night. Try reading a bar outline. If you can’t fall asleep,
just lie there. Don’t try to do extra studying, just rest. If you can’t fall
asleep, don’t get out of bed, do not pace, do not watch television, do not
text, do not play on the internet, do not go on facebook, do not exercise. You
do not want to do anything that will keep your mind active. You want to keep
your mind at rest, even if your body can’t rest.
The Day of the Exam
Don’t try to study when you get up. You’ll be too
nervous and your retention level will be minimal. It’s best to work on your
nerves as you get dressed. Tell yourself that you know the materials and you
will do well. Keep that positive attitude. Do not approach the morning of the
bar like you are going to your personal execution. You are well prepared and
you must believe that you will do well.
Eat a small breakfast the morning of the bar exam so
you have enough fuel to keep going. Do not drink too much that it causes
frequent restroom visits.
Make sure you know what you can bring into the
site. Florida has now banned
watches. Leave your cellphone at the
hotel or in the car. Do not bring it into the site. You will be kicked out of
the bar if your phone rings.
Also important is your lunch. Avoid heavy foods that
will make you sleepy. Again, limit your drink intake to avoid frequent restroom
breaks.
During Your Breaks
Do not talk to anyone about the exam during your
breaks. Inevitably someone will want to talk about the bar and inevitably that
person put down something different from what you did. Do not second guess
yourself by rehashing the exam. Move forward at all times.
Make sure you have a positive outlook. Be confident.
You’ve done hundreds of practice questions by
now. You can do this. You will
pass. Good luck to all.
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Solutions for Success!
It is now 3 days to the bar exam. This is the final
weekend before you sit for the bar exam.
One of the most important factors in your
performance on the bar exam is going to be your stamina – to sit for 3 hours at
a stretch, with no breaks, concentrating solely on the bar exam will be quite
an endeavor. You need to remain focused and energized throughout the bar exam
in order for you to do your best work.
First, you need to catch up on your rest and start
powering down on your studying this weekend. Try to have a less stressful
couple of days. Put in study time, but also sleep, rest and relax. You have
done your preparation and now it’s time to get in the game, mentally and
physically.
You will be nervous this weekend, but try to contain
your anxiety – you have studied hard and you are ready. Review your materials,
go over your outlines, write out an essay or two to keep in practice and also
work on some MBE questions – making sure you read the explanations of why the
answer choices are right or wrong. Don’t let doubt creep into your thinking.
You must be confident – you know you will pass. Good luck.
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Solutions for Success!
It is now 4 days to the bar exam.
Part of the battle to pass the bar exam is your
attitude. Don’t go into the bar with negative energy. You must have confidence
in your abilities. You have to go into the bar fired up and excited. This is
your future and you will conquer it. You have studied extensively, you know the
information and now you will prove it when you enter the bar examination. A
positive attitude is half the battle. You feel good – you do good. With
confidence, you have won before you have started.
Where does confidence come from? Confidence doesn’t
come out of nowhere. It’s a result of something… hours and days and weeks and
years of work, dedication and training. You are ready. You will go into the bar
exam prepared to pass the exam. You have studied, written essays and practiced
the MBE questions – you can do no more. Your analysis is sharp and you have a
great game plan. You have prepared and you are confident.
For those who are taking the bar exam as a repeat
taker, do not lose your edge. Do not look back at your past failures and think
you cannot pass the bar exam. Do not doubt yourself, do not be afraid that you
will repeat your mistakes. You must go into the exam with confidence that you
will pass the bar exam. If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky
ground. Believe that you will pass.
A student told me that this weekend, he is going to
watch the movie Rocky. I thought it was a great idea. Find something
inspirational for you to watch or to do. Not only will you feel good, but it
can build your confidence to see someone else conquer his fears and be
successful. I’ve always liked the movie Rudy – someone who wanted to go to
college and play football for Notre Dame. He had many obstacles in his way
including having to go to junior college before he could transfer to Notre Dame
and be a walk-on to the team. The coaches kept him on the practice team because
he practiced with intensity and determination even though he was too small and
would likely never get into the game or play a down. Well, the last game of his
senior year he got into the game, played a few downs and became the first
player in Notre Dame’s history to be carried off the field in triumph. Against
all odds, he became a winner – because he believed in his dreams and had the
confidence to overcome his obstacles.
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without confidence in
your own powers you cannot be successful.
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Solutions for Success!
It is now 5 days to the bar exam.
During this last week before the bar exam, I have
many students ask me what my prediction is for exam subjects. Anyone who claims
to predict what will be on the bar exam is just guessing. I remember one year,
a lecturer on the bar exam circuit claimed that since trusts had been tested in
the previous test cycle, it would not be tested again and to forget about
trusts. Unfortunately, many students took that advice and freaked when they
opened the exam questions on the day of the bar exam and saw that the bar
examiners did in fact test trusts twice in a row. This cautionary tale is meant
to be what it is – do not endlessly search for predictions or to take anyone’s
predictions as gospel. You have prepared for any eventuality – in any subject
that is tested. Don’t try to second guess yourself and your preparation or to
find a shortcut in your studies. This weekend, make sure you review every
subject that is tested in your state. Only then will you be thoroughly
prepared, with or without, any person’s prediction of what subjects will be
tested on the essays.
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Solutions for Success!
Since the MBE is so important for your overall
score, it is essential to recognize that analysis of the answer choices
deserves as much of your time and attention as the fact pattern or story.
You first must identify the issue in each answer
choice. Each answer choice has one. Once you recognize the issue then you can
choose between the answer choices. Only the issue that addresses and answers
the one presented in the fact pattern can be the correct answer choice.
Sometimes, despite all you best efforts to work
through a question according to your process, you may find that the only way to
arrive at the correct answer choice is through the process of elimination.
You’ll have to examine each of the answer choices and eliminate those that
can’t possibly be correct.
When can’t an answer choice be correct?
The first rule for eliminating incorrect answer choices
is that an answer choice must be entirely correct or it is wrong. Don’t be
misled simply because the statement is partially correct. Look for
misstatements or misapplication of a rule of law. You need to know the law to
distinguish between answer choices that misstate or misapply the law. Also,
look for answer choices that mischaracterizes the facts. Look for
contradictions between the facts in the story and the facts as characterized in
the answer choice. Such an answer choice cannot be correct. Nor can an answer
choice that requires you to make assumptions that go beyond the facts in the
fact pattern.
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Solutions for Success!
Your goal for this last week is to keep your focus
while you solidify your knowledge of the black letter law and improve your
timing. The week before the exam is a time when you should be cool, collected
and confident.
Don’t let anyone or anything distract you this week.
It’s not worth it. You only have a week left to go and you can relax later,
Remember to take care of your body and mind. This
means eating well, getting some sleep and working on self-confidence.
As to practical things, make sure you have confirmed
your travel plans or hotel stay, make sure you have packed what you need to
take with you for the bar exam, including your admission ticket, your
identification, your watch, if allowed,
making sure your examsoft works, etc.
Now that you know the law, make sure your timing is
correct, i.e. complete 17 MBE questions in 30 minutes; 34 MBE questions in an
hour and complete an essay in the time allotted for your jurisdiction.
It isn’t uncommon to start running out of energy this
week. So take some breaks to energize yourself.
You need to keep your mind
focused on bar material. Your focus is critical to success.
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Solutions for Success!
Today marks 8 days to the
bar exam. Hopefully, this weekend, you caught up on any sleep you have been
missing. You need to be physically well and fit. You need to be sharp on the
days of the bar exam and you can’t be smart when you are exhausted. Keep that
in mind this week. If you need to take a cat nap, go ahead and take it.
Meanwhile, keep on your bar exam schedule. Start studying at 9 am for a 3 hour
stretch. Take an hour break and study again for another 3 hour stretch. It will
be up to you whether you want to study longer. If you feel you need to, go
ahead and review your notes or essays at night, but don’t study night and day.
You will only tire yourself out. Try to keep your nerves under control. Think
about today and what you need to accomplish today only. This technique should
help you not think too much about next week.
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Solutions for Success!
Today marks 10 days to the bar exam. This is a
pretty significant day for you. You should be just about finished with your
studies. You should know the law, understand the mechanics of the bar exam and
understand how to tackle the MBE questions, the essays and the MPTs. It’s now
time to start powering down a bit.
If you have studied hard and if you are physically
tired, try to rest more this weekend. You do not want to enter the bar exam
exhausted and physically spent. Many of you will start to have sleepless nights
or have nightmares about the bar exam and your anxiety will reach higher
levels. Try to compensate for your lack of sleep at night by taking some power
naps. Don’t feel guilty – you’ve earned it. You want to be at your best
physically and mentally and you can’t do that if you are too tired to think. So
lie down on the couch and take a short nap when you need to. Meanwhile, review
your outlines and do a few essays a day and an hour or two of MBE questions per
day. If your state tests the MPT, write out a MPT every other day. It’s time
now to reinforce what you already know.
Reviewing and practicing will build
your confidence that you really do know the subject matter.
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Solutions for Success!
First you want to review the instructions. There is
an instruction sheet of every MPT. Read it as you prepare – you do not want to
waste time reading it during the bar exam.
Verify the jurisdiction paragraph to know what is
mandatory as opposed to what is merely persuasive authority.
Your next step is to identify the area of law. From
the listings in the Library, you can often determine the subject area..
Determine whether it’s a statutory or common law problem.
You then must read the Task Memo and identify the
issue you’re asked to resolve. The Task Memo reveals the precise issue you’re
asked to resolve. Read the directions carefully.
Identify your specific assignment by noting the
precise nature of the task: memo – decide whether it is a persuasive brief,
client letter, contract provision, etc. Identify the point of view – whether
it’s objective or persuasive. This will inform the nature of your reading
because you’ll read the materials with a critical eye. Identify your audience –
is it a lawyer or layperson?
Now, you’ll be able to start the reading.
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Solutions for Success!
Many states, including the Uniform Bar Exam, have a
multistate performance test.
The MPT consists of a 90-minute skills question
covering legal analysis, fact analysis, problem solving, resolution of ethical
dilemmas, organization and management of a lawyering task, and communication.
The MPT is not a test of substantive knowledge. It
is designed to examine six fundamental skills lawyers are expected to
demonstrate regardless of the area of law in which the skills arise. The MPT
requires applicants to (1) sort detailed factual materials and separate
relevant from irrelevant facts; (2) analyze statutory, case, and administrative
materials for principles of law; (3) apply the law to the relevant facts in a
manner likely to resolve a client’s problem; (4) identify and resolve ethical
dilemmas, when present; (5) communicate effectively in writing; (6) complete a
lawyering task within time constraints.
These skills are tested by requiring applicants to
perform one of a variety of lawyering tasks. Examples of tasks applicants might
be instructed to complete include writing the following: a memorandum to a
supervising attorney; a letter to a client; a persuasive memorandum or brief; a
statement of facts; a contract provision; a will; a counseling plan; a proposal
for settlement or agreement; a discovery plan; a witness examination plan; a
closing argument.
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Solutions for Success!
In prior blogs, I’ve talked about those toxic people
in your personal life. You know the type. Those are the people who like to tell
you horrible stories about people who have failed the bar exam, or want you to
play hooky when you should be studying.
But I have one more. I have found that there are a
few law students at every law school that try to distract their fellow law
students, especially those that have been studying hard. Those “distractors”
have not put in the study time nor have they worked as hard as you have. Their
purpose is to try to throw you off your game and to disturb your peace of mind.
There are two types of distractors. The first
distractor wanders the study places, begging you for little scraps of
information, i.e. wanting to know the elements of some rule, and freaking out
because they don’t know the law. The other distractor wanders the study places,
telling you that they are powering down because they know everything cold and
they don’t need to study anymore. There was one student at my school who tried
to get people to ditch their work to go play golf with him. Then on the day of
the exam, he was walking around asking about the elements of negligence, or
some other such nonsense. Of course, he failed the bar exam and apparently
wanted others to fail with him.
The purpose of both distractors is to divert you
from your own studying and to make you feel unduly nervous and anxious. They
will try to undermine your own confidence. They are going to make your question
your own knowledge and freak you out too. Stay away from those people. You want
to keep focused and keep your mind clear and easy as you march towards your
goal.
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Solutions for Success!
You have 2 weeks until the bar examination. Instead
of spending the day getting nervous about the time, concentrate on what you
have left to do.
By this time, you should have pretty much memorized
as much black letter law as you can cram into your brain. It is now time to put
away the books and stop studying the law.
What you need to do in these final 2 weeks to
prepare yourself for the bar exam is to practice, practice, practice. You are
now familiar with your state test and the MBE questions and what to expect from
the bar exam.
Try to do an essay or two every day, testing
yourself on a variety of subjects that you know your state tests. Do the essays
under test conditions. Once you finish your essay under time constraints, spend
an equal amount of time reading your essay and comparing it to the model
answer. Read for comprehension, also. There might be a point of law that you
did not know that you can learn from reading the model answer.
For those states who have the UBE, and California or
New York who have performance tests, you also must include taking the time to
do the performance test also. Try doing 1 performance test every other day.
This way you can probably get 5 or 6 performance tests in to your practice
sessions prior to the bar exam. On the days you do not do a performance test,
practice your essays.
In between the essays and performance tests, you
also need to work on questions for the Multistate. Try to get in at least
50-100 MBE questions per day, if you can. This way you can really be sharp when
exam time comes.
Don’t waste the time to panic, but do take the time
to practice. You will be more prepared than ever if you follow this schedule.
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Solutions for Success!
Here are some strategies for the answer choices for
the MBE:
1. Look
for the more precise answer: That is a better choice – one that incorporates
more facts and more of the law relevant to your fact pattern.
2. Be
careful of those absolutes. If you see words like must, always, never, etc., be
careful, because we know that the law almost never deals in absolutes. They are
few absolutes in the law.
3. Look
for conjunctions. Be careful when you see words like because, if, only if,
unless, etc. Those conjunctions are designed to try to trick the reader,
especially the careless reader. For example, you’ll see a question that says,
if the jury believes the defendant, it is because…. This example wants you to
focus on the defendant’s defense, not whether the defendant is guilty.
4. Be
careful of distractors. Common distractors for evidence are the best evidence
rule and prejudicial v. probative. Make sure you know when you can use these
two as the right answer or else they may be distractors.
5. Be
careful of sympathy or dislike. The MBE likes to pull at your heart strings a
bit too. Sometimes they have a really reprehensible defendant who has a
legitimate “procedural” issue that makes him not guilty, i.e. an improper search
and seizure. You want to find him guilty, but the police make an error and the
evidence is suppressed. Similarly, you’ll see a sympathetic person who commits
a cause of action or a crime and must be either liable or guilty. Don’t let
emotion rule the day.
Remember, that common mistakes in choosing the
answer come from not knowing the law, not reading the fact pattern carefully,
or not reading the call of the question.
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Solutions for Success!
To recap what we have talked about concerning the
MBE, here is the list of progressions you must follow.
1. Read
the call of the question first.
2. Read
the fact pattern carefully and critically
3. Try
to decide the issue after you read the fact pattern and before you look at the answers.
4. Once
you have figured out the issue, think of the black letter law and the
distinctions.
5. Read
the answer choices.
6. Try
to eliminate the answer choices, one by one, looking for errors in law or in
fact or both.
7. Remember
that in order for the answer choice to be correct, it must be correct in all of
its answer.
8. After
you are done with the question, let it go and go to the next answer.
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Solutions for Success!
As we know, after the fact pattern and the call of the
question, there are 4 multiple answer choices. One of those multiple choice
answers is the correct one, while distractors form the other 3 choices. How do
we know which choice is the correct answer?
The good thing about the MBE is that the right
answer is staring at you. Your just have to find the right answer out of 4.
That’s a 25% chance you’ll pick the right answer. The wrong answer choices
usually come in various categories: the law is incorrect, the facts are
incorrect, there is a mixture of wrong facts and wrong law, or the law is
correct but doesn’t apply to your facts.
Yes, the MBE uses every trick in the book, but you
can find the right answer by eliminating the wrong answers first. Being able to
eliminate the wrong answers is critical to your success in finding the right
answer. Because even if you don’t know the right answer, you may be able to
successfully eliminate the other 3 answers and get to the right answer, even
without knowing what the right answer is.
Eliminating the obvious wrong answers will
substantially increase your chances of getting the right answer. If you
successfully eliminate two, you chances become 50% of getting the right answer.
Remember that the correct answer must state the
correct law, must state the correct facts, have a sound application of law to
facts and finally needs to address and resolve the central issue in the fact
pattern.
Remember, you get no points for choosing the wrong
answer, so you must get the right answer for your MBE questions at a rate of at
least 65% in order to pass the MBE.
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Solutions for Success!
After you have read the call of the question, you
now must read the fact pattern.
Do not read the fact pattern like you were reading a
novel. You must read the fact pattern critically. Absorb every word, figure out
the parties and the cause of actions, making notes, if you have to, on the side
of the examination page. If you see dates and numbers, make sure you highlight
them or write them down. An abundance of dates probably means something
important, especially with contracts and formation. Sometimes property questions
are so convoluted, making a tiny map of who own what can help you understand
the fact pattern.
The point I am making is that you must read
carefully and deliberately.
After you read the fact pattern, re-read the call of
the question to make sure that you understand what the call of the question is
asking you now that you’ve read the fact pattern. If you need to, you may want
to again look at the fact pattern to make sure you understand what is being
asked before you examine the multiple choice answers.
Remember, you have 1.8 minutes for each question.
You must read quickly and carefully.
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Solutions for Success!
Don’t ever assume facts when you read the fact
pattern on the MBE question. There are no omitted facts in the MBE. Do not read
into the question any facts that are not there or to assume any facts that are
not there. Also, always assume that the facts are important. There are no red
herrings on bar exams. Don’t feel any sympathy or hatred for anyone in the fact
pattern. They are sometimes designed to elicit emotion from you in order to
steer you to the wrong answer. For example, a serial murder will have a
procedural defect he can rely on, so he will be found not guilty. You don’t
want him to be found not guilty, so you look for the guilty answer choices and
you end up picking the wrong answer.
As you read through the fact pattern, ask yourself
why these facts are important. Since you have read the call of the question,
you will have a better context of why the facts are there and why they are
important. Make sure you pay attention to dates, ages, dollar amounts and
parties. They will be important.
Also, look at the parties and how they are acting.
For example, look for words like intentionally, knowingly, mistakenly,
reasonably, etc. These words will be important when you look through the MBE
answer choices.
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Solutions for Success!
Three weeks to the bar exam is a good time to
evaluate how you are doing. You have enough time to now pinpoint your weak
areas and enough time to change your schedule if you feel you’re spinning your
wheels. Consider this day your line in the sand.
By now you should have done several hundred
multistate questions, at least 15 state essays and at least 4 performance
tests.
If you haven’t done it, get busy. Change your
schedule if you need to, work on your weak areas and keep testing.
If you have, you are ready for the bar exam. You
just need to keep working, stay cool and continue to test yourself.
Make sure you are peaking on exam day. If you are
like some of my students who study all night, stop it today. Get up at 6 am or
7 am and start studying at 9 am until 12 pm, with no breaks, then study from 1
pm to 4 pm, with no breaks, You want to mimic the bar exam hours so you are at
your peak at 9 am every day.
Don’t pretend you’re not nervous. Accept that it’s
okay to be nervous. Channel that nervous energy properly by attacking your
study schedule and transform your nerves into confidence. But, remember, you do
not want to be overly tired for the bar exam. Try to sleep through the night
or, at least, take some cat naps during the day to catch up on missed sleep.
One of the most important things to do during this 3
week period is not to doubt your abilities. You can pass this bar and you know
it. You just need to be in the top 2/3rds of your state. Don’t stress too much
about what you don’t know – you are not expected to get a 100% on this test –
it’s more like 60%. The examiners expect that you will have weak areas. Go into
the bar exam with the knowledge you will pass the bar exam.
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Solutions for Success!
Looking at the timing of the MBE, you must answer
100 questions in 3 hours, both in the morning and the afternoon. Breaking it
down further, you must answer each question in 1.8 minutes, or 17 questions in
a half hour and 34 questions in an hour. You must be able to sustain that fast
pace.
As you practice, keep that pace in mind. It is
imperative that you finish all 200 questions. You do not want to leave any
questions unanswered or unread and lose valuable points. As you know, even 1
point or 2 points can mean the difference between passing and failing.
Not only do you need to answer the questions, you
need to answer them correctly.
How do you build up your time and accuracy? In the
beginning of this process, start with 17 questions first – note your time and
your accuracy. As you get better at your accuracy, your time will also get
better. Once you feel that you are comfortable with the 17 questions, then,
proceed to doing 34 questions in one sitting. Again, notice how long it took
you and your accuracy. Then move up doing 68 questions in 2 hours, until
finally you are working at 3 hour stretches.
You must get comfortable and condition yourself to
sitting for 3 hours, working on MBE questions, without losing your focus or
concentration. In the last couple of weeks, prior to the bar exam, you should
be working on 3 hour blocks for the MBE.
Once you get to the bar exam, write down the time
for 34 questions, 68 questions or break it down in half hours, i.e. 17, 34, 51
etc, so you can glance at your sheet and know that you are on schedule to
answer all 100 questions.
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Solutions for Success!
