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cnk1220 wrote:

bcohen226 wrote:

Yazzzay wrote:Anyone know about the food available near the Albany Empire Plaza location? Not down with any of their lunches and was wondering if there were sandwich shops/anything quick nearby (pret a manger or sweetgreens style) or is worth just getting their lunch?

Also bag wise: I'm carrying a trader joes or similar with my laptop IN its $10 sleeve case and leaving it in the storage room- just my idea for people wondering how to carry everything- it seems sensible and if it gets lost in the room/taken (not that anyone would), nbd.

Seems like pre-ordering is the move. Heard mixed things about what is available nearby.

And for Javits... I asked someone who took it there last year and she said the bathroom situation was totally fine.

If you're referring to the Albany Convention Center there's an au bon pain right inside the convention center literally next door to where you will take the exam, along with some other food options- I remember seeing a McDonalds but ABP would deff. be safer. They have coffee, sandwiches, and soup, do that and you'll be fine

cnk1220 wrote:

cnk1220 wrote:

bcohen226 wrote:

Yazzzay wrote:Anyone know about the food available near the Albany Empire Plaza location? Not down with any of their lunches and was wondering if there were sandwich shops/anything quick nearby (pret a manger or sweetgreens style) or is worth just getting their lunch?

Also bag wise: I'm carrying a trader joes or similar with my laptop IN its $10 sleeve case and leaving it in the storage room- just my idea for people wondering how to carry everything- it seems sensible and if it gets lost in the room/taken (not that anyone would), nbd.

Seems like pre-ordering is the move. Heard mixed things about what is available nearby.

And for Javits... I asked someone who took it there last year and she said the bathroom situation was totally fine.

If you're referring to the Albany Convention Center there's an au bon pain right inside the convention center literally next door to where you will take the exam, along with some other food options- I remember seeing a McDonalds but ABP would deff. be safer. They have coffee, sandwiches, and soup, do that and you'll be fine

http://www.nyssba.org/clientuploads/nys ... -Plaza.pdf

Also the link to this map might be helpful- it shows you the restaurants there. the convention center at the plaza is huge (or maybe I just felt small and overwhelmed during exam time lol), "the convention hall/the egg" is where you will take the exam- as you can see on the map, the food court is literally right next door- 15/16 on the map. Hope that helps.

bda wrote:We can just pack lunches right? Seems like the simplest solution to me to pack a pb+j, fruit, and some chips or something, leave it in the personal belongings room, and be done with it.

bcohen226 wrote:

bda wrote:We can just pack lunches right? Seems like the simplest solution to me to pack a pb+j, fruit, and some chips or something, leave it in the personal belongings room, and be done with it.

yea totally just most people want something more hearty than just pb&j and also don't want do deal with coat check line, etc. during the short break.

bcohen226 wrote:

cnk1220 wrote:

cnk1220 wrote:

bcohen226 wrote:

Yazzzay wrote:Anyone know about the food available near the Albany Empire Plaza location? Not down with any of their lunches and was wondering if there were sandwich shops/anything quick nearby (pret a manger or sweetgreens style) or is worth just getting their lunch?

Also bag wise: I'm carrying a trader joes or similar with my laptop IN its $10 sleeve case and leaving it in the storage room- just my idea for people wondering how to carry everything- it seems sensible and if it gets lost in the room/taken (not that anyone would), nbd.

Seems like pre-ordering is the move. Heard mixed things about what is available nearby.

And for Javits... I asked someone who took it there last year and she said the bathroom situation was totally fine.

If you're referring to the Albany Convention Center there's an au bon pain right inside the convention center literally next door to where you will take the exam, along with some other food options- I remember seeing a McDonalds but ABP would deff. be safer. They have coffee, sandwiches, and soup, do that and you'll be fine

http://www.nyssba.org/clientuploads/nys ... -Plaza.pdf

Also the link to this map might be helpful- it shows you the restaurants there. the convention center at the plaza is huge (or maybe I just felt small and overwhelmed during exam time lol), "the convention hall/the egg" is where you will take the exam- as you can see on the map, the food court is literally right next door- 15/16 on the map. Hope that helps.

Yes but I heard that they are likely going to keep the food court closed this year. A friend of mine called to ask... apparently a high enough percentage pre-ordered last year that they can't really justify keeping the other concessions open this year so they're just going to keep closed. Doesn't seem worth the risk to me to 'wing it'.

Toubro wrote:Am I the only one freaking out that NY has asked SofTest to eliminate spell check? Not going to spend any time learning how to spell "unconscionable" and BOLE will just have to be OK with it :/

Toubro wrote:Am I the only one freaking out that NY has asked SofTest to eliminate spell check? Not going to spend any time learning how to spell "unconscionable" and BOLE will just have to be OK with it :/

SplitMyPants wrote:will we be able to cut and paste? i expect myself to do that sometimes especially with the MPT

bluewin888 wrote:how is Armory Track & Field Center, comparing to javits??


shall i bring lunch myself??


similar huge room with tons of people ??

MrWhitman wrote:Make sure you all do a softest mock exam this week. I went to do a practice today (just to remember what the interface is like) and realized my login credential were not correct--took about 20 minutes to figure out how to login. Then the software froze in the middle of my practice. I did a restart and everything worked fine.

Going through it reassured me that if anything goes wrong I'll be okay but I wouldn't want to be dealing with login problems at the exam site.

danielbernard1030 wrote:

bluewin888 wrote:how is Armory Track & Field Center, comparing to javits??


shall i bring lunch myself??


similar huge room with tons of people ??

Armory is less "in the middle of nowhere" than Javits but they put the majority of NYC candidates at Armory this summer (only a small % are at Javits and Marriott Marquis) so the lines at coat check and at places nearby are probably going to be super long. My friends who got placed there just went with the preorder. I'm up at Buffalo

de minimis wrote:

MrWhitman wrote:Make sure you all do a softest mock exam this week. I went to do a practice today (just to remember what the interface is like) and realized my login credential were not correct--took about 20 minutes to figure out how to login. Then the software froze in the middle of my practice. I did a restart and everything worked fine.

Going through it reassured me that if anything goes wrong I'll be okay but I wouldn't want to be dealing with login problems at the exam site.

How do you do an additional mock exam beyond the one they gave us that was due weeks ago?

FormerChild wrote:I know this has been discussed elsewhere, but I don't want to waste the time looking for it. If anyone knows off the top of their head, roughly, what does a 125-135 raw score scale to on MBE?

MrWhitman wrote:Make sure you all do a softest mock exam this week. I went to do a practice today (just to remember what the interface is like) and realized my login credential were not correct--took about 20 minutes to figure out how to login. Then the software froze in the middle of my practice. I did a restart and everything worked fine.

Going through it reassured me that if anything goes wrong I'll be okay but I wouldn't want to be dealing with login problems at the exam site.