I am a foreign attorney preparing for the NY July 2009 bar. I have been practicing the PMBR Red book and the blue book and I am getting between 50-60% correct.
I took the MBE from the Strategies and Practices Book (Steve Emanuel) and score 110 last week. Today I took the Barbri Practice MBE and scored 85/200 which I believe I pathetic... :( I am totally devastated and I cant imagine failing the bar!
It would be great if I can get some tips to improve my MBE score.
Thanks
BMS_2009
Do as many questions as you can. Read the explanations of the questions you got wrong (and the ones you got right if you have the time--in case you got them right for the wrong reason). Go back and redo questions you previously got wrong at a later date, when they are no longer fresh in your head (this is worth it--they repeat question types). Remember to stay relaxed.
What I did was make some notes on a separate index card for each wrong question. I just put a few words sketching out the point of law. I often would rifle through the cards (and get extremely aggravated when I saw more than one card with the same point of law on it, since that meant I was repeating my errors). That method, along with the volume of questions I did (over 4,000), earned me an excellent scaled score on the MBE.
You want to try and get your average over 65%, or so I hear. This method should improve your performance. It's important to know why you got the questions wrong, and not to repeat the errors, since there are only so many types of questions they can ask (I know, it seems like an infinitude of possibilities, but it's not).
Hope that helps!
50 MBE's a day, for a total of 3000+, write down the rule of law for each question you get wrong in a notebook or on flash cards, and then review those rules of law every few days.
By July 1st or the 1/2 way point to the exam, what percentage should one be scoring at on MBE questions? For example, if out of 100 question, how many should be correct?
Thanks!!
at least 65%
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