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atifii

Study it like the way you would study the traditional MBE

I thought the July MBE's looked like the traditional MBE's from the NCBE released Q's.

bharath

600 questions and open question technique

I faced the bar a few times and finally passed. In my previous 2 bar exams, I scored 148 and 140. I did. How did I do it? I engaged the MBE with INTENSITY. That is, for the first 600 or so, I had a very intensive engagement with each question, asking why, why not, the principle behind it, if i missed why, if I got it why, the other choices that I didn't pick, why they were there and how they can distract me from the right answer. THIS IS A TIME CONSUMING ACTIVITY. As a result, it might take you a month to finish the 600 questions.

The trick is to resist the urge to do more with greater speed and less intensity. Even with a month left, it is critical to have a solid base with the first 600 questions. Don't worry about your timing. That will come in time. I talked to myself as I was going through each question and almost reading the mind of the examiners who made up that question. Then, for the remainder MBE's, I reviewed only the ones I missed. It worked for me consistently.

No tutoring, no special approach of reading the question first, just simple hard work on the first 600 does the job. This technique I am using is the OPEN BOOK TECHNIQUE.

I read a question and decide what area of the law this question is from and what are they testing. If I know the answer, I click the right answer if I have even the smallest doubt, I go to my MicroMash book or other outline and read the information before answering the question. If I get the answer right, I had a deficit in my legal knowledge which I just addressed. If I get the answer wrong, the problem is with comprehension and I need to be careful about reading. This will slow you down in the beginning but you will see a significant difference in less than a week given that you do about 25 questions a day. I hope this helps.

Source: "MIKAEL TEBEKA" and "Mandeep Singh" and me