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gaagoots wrote:

Lacepiece23 wrote:

Calicakes wrote:I have personally not seen any questions from the 2013 exam I took. I wonder how old these questions are because I remember when I took the bar in Feb 2013 and Feb 2015 that those seemed a hell of a lot harder than these do( except for the Civ Pro)

How were the civ pro questions in February? Haven't really found anyone that can shed light on that yet. Easier than adaptibar? Harder than Barbri--which are pretty easy?

Feb totally different than Adaptibar. Real ones are very much in line with evidence, in that the fact patterns and answer choices are short and brief. I see the Adaptibar bar ones and they are a fricken manifesto, my clock just whizzes away as I read all of them. I gave up at 51% tried again and shot down to 48%. Honestly I did all 6 sets of Civ Pro for BarBri and didn't feel so stupid. So I'd say slightly above BarBri. It helps on the real thing to diagram in the MBE booklet when you have parties from various states.

Kage3212 wrote:

gaagoots wrote:

Lacepiece23 wrote:

Calicakes wrote:I have personally not seen any questions from the 2013 exam I took. I wonder how old these questions are because I remember when I took the bar in Feb 2013 and Feb 2015 that those seemed a hell of a lot harder than these do( except for the Civ Pro)

How were the civ pro questions in February? Haven't really found anyone that can shed light on that yet. Easier than adaptibar? Harder than Barbri--which are pretty easy?

Feb totally different than Adaptibar. Real ones are very much in line with evidence, in that the fact patterns and answer choices are short and brief. I see the Adaptibar bar ones and they are a fricken manifesto, my clock just whizzes away as I read all of them. I gave up at 51% tried again and shot down to 48%. Honestly I did all 6 sets of Civ Pro for BarBri and didn't feel so stupid. So I'd say slightly above BarBri. It helps on the real thing to diagram in the MBE booklet when you have parties from various states.

gagoots, how would you say the difficulty of Adaptibar questions are relative to the actual exam? Have you found Adaptibar significantly easier?

doubltall wrote:The FU$#%#ING Adaptibar Civ Pro questions are insane. Walls of text that are hard to follow, filled with typographical errors, and wildly unfair answer choices. The "Student Responses" prove that I'm not alone in getting duped time after time by an attractive answer choice, and it's pissing me off!

gaagoots wrote:

Kage3212 wrote:

gaagoots wrote:

Lacepiece23 wrote:

Calicakes wrote:I have personally not seen any questions from the 2013 exam I took. I wonder how old these questions are because I remember when I took the bar in Feb 2013 and Feb 2015 that those seemed a hell of a lot harder than these do( except for the Civ Pro)

How were the civ pro questions in February? Haven't really found anyone that can shed light on that yet. Easier than adaptibar? Harder than Barbri--which are pretty easy?

Feb totally different than Adaptibar. Real ones are very much in line with evidence, in that the fact patterns and answer choices are short and brief. I see the Adaptibar bar ones and they are a fricken manifesto, my clock just whizzes away as I read all of them. I gave up at 51% tried again and shot down to 48%. Honestly I did all 6 sets of Civ Pro for BarBri and didn't feel so stupid. So I'd say slightly above BarBri. It helps on the real thing to diagram in the MBE booklet when you have parties from various states.

gagoots, how would you say the difficulty of Adaptibar questions are relative to the actual exam? Have you found Adaptibar significantly easier?

I found them very similar. You are not at all surprised, like the MPRE.

I'm embarrassed to share how many Adaptibar questions I've done but I know I've done enough to see 3-4 different questions reworded to ask the same thing. That is what happens on the real MBE so you won't feel blindsided. The real one has some gimmies and they help you combat the long ones in RP or contracts.

As for the OPM exams those gave me a major false sense of confidence, I scored in the high 80's and a 90 and I flew threw those in an hour and a half. The real one has a good mix of easy, or "oh yeah I read that case in contracts" to "what the hell". You no longer see the ones with Roman numerals (god I hate those) or the one that asks which case..hate those too.

Hope that helps and doesn't violate some Chapter 6 violation they drone on and on about each morning

gaagoots wrote:

victortsoi wrote:

gaagoots wrote:

Kage3212 wrote:

gaagoots wrote:

Lacepiece23 wrote:

Calicakes wrote:I have personally not seen any questions from the 2013 exam I took. I wonder how old these questions are because I remember when I took the bar in Feb 2013 and Feb 2015 that those seemed a hell of a lot harder than these do( except for the Civ Pro)

How were the civ pro questions in February? Haven't really found anyone that can shed light on that yet. Easier than adaptibar? Harder than Barbri--which are pretty easy?

Feb totally different than Adaptibar. Real ones are very much in line with evidence, in that the fact patterns and answer choices are short and brief. I see the Adaptibar bar ones and they are a fricken manifesto, my clock just whizzes away as I read all of them. I gave up at 51% tried again and shot down to 48%. Honestly I did all 6 sets of Civ Pro for BarBri and didn't feel so stupid. So I'd say slightly above BarBri. It helps on the real thing to diagram in the MBE booklet when you have parties from various states.

gagoots, how would you say the difficulty of Adaptibar questions are relative to the actual exam? Have you found Adaptibar significantly easier?

I found them very similar. You are not at all surprised, like the MPRE.

I'm embarrassed to share how many Adaptibar questions I've done but I know I've done enough to see 3-4 different questions reworded to ask the same thing. That is what happens on the real MBE so you won't feel blindsided. The real one has some gimmies and they help you combat the long ones in RP or contracts.

As for the OPM exams those gave me a major false sense of confidence, I scored in the high 80's and a 90 and I flew threw those in an hour and a half. The real one has a good mix of easy, or "oh yeah I read that case in contracts" to "what the hell". You no longer see the ones with Roman numerals (god I hate those) or the one that asks which case..hate those too.

Hope that helps and doesn't violate some Chapter 6 violation they drone on and on about each morning

im sorry, OPM?

Sorry that should be OPE, online practice exams. I do a lot of Federal Pension divisions and use OPM a lot when drafting the language. It's kind of stuck in my head.

trustmouse83 wrote:Just got 73% in the 2013 practice exam.
I really found that by far the most difficult of all the tests.

doubltall wrote:The FU$#%#ING Adaptibar Civ Pro questions are insane. Walls of text that are hard to follow, filled with typographical errors, and wildly unfair answer choices. The "Student Responses" prove that I'm not alone in getting duped time after time by an attractive answer choice (I just missed a Q where 65% of other students picked, too) and it's pissing me off!

Should I just skip/pass on Civ Pro questions in this final weekend, read outlines and review flash cards and cross my fingers?

NY_Sea wrote:Hey, sorry to revive a really old thread, but I'm retaking in Feb (failed NY by 10 in July... Ugh) and the MBE was definitely my achilles heel the first go around (126). I'd like to know what people thought about this after most states have gotten results back.

Thanks in advance!

jtp191 wrote:Has anyone that has taken the February bar exam feel as though Adaptibar represented? And, if you wouldn't mind sharing what you were testing at before going into the exam. Thank you

jtp191 wrote:Has anyone that has taken the February bar exam feel as though Adaptibar represented? And, if you wouldn't mind sharing what you were testing at before going into the exam. Thank you

blaze1306 wrote:

jtp191 wrote:Has anyone that has taken the February bar exam feel as though Adaptibar represented? And, if you wouldn't mind sharing what you were testing at before going into the exam. Thank you

I felt like it helped but now that I have my scores I don't think it helped much at all. My MBE went up from 117 to 119.6...yeah.