jrstephens1991 wrote:Congrats!
If you don't mind me asking, what was your score for the Simulated midterm exam and the refresher?
I didn't take those simulated tests. I really lost faith in Bar Bri. As I went through Bar Bri's MBE questions I usually scored around a 58%. Lots of times I would get an 11 or 12 out of 18. I used Adaptibar and before test time I had done around 800 questions, maybe more and was getting 74% right. BarBri simply doesn't cover everything, they are assuming that you just graduated from (a good) law school and that you are going to remember a lot of things anyway so all they have to do is simply give you a refresher. I graduated over 28 years ago and the exam has changed so much, added new things and new laws have been promulgated. That is why I like Joe Seperac's outline so much, it covers everything and in relationship to their importance on the test.
Also if you look at BarBri's MEE book they mention a lot of rules from the Uniform Law Commission (Second restatement of torts, Uniform Partnership Act et al.) that are either never mentioned or discussed briefly in the Bar Bri lectures. I wrote down ever one I could find, tried to remember everyone I could and threw them back up on the essay portions when I could. I think that that may have helped me get over the essays because that was where I was having the most problems.
Good luck
I passed with MBE scaled score of 146.0 and UBE total of 273. I failed two exams before with under 10 points each time. I used BarBri for second exam and I feel that the lectures were a wast of time. BarBri's Convisor book was good but there is a lot of stuff that isn't covered. I used Seperac's outline for this exam and it was excellent, it covers everything. I also relied on Adaptibar which was wonderful.
