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August 2019 MPRE
Didn’t see a thread on this, I passed the Feb 19 FL Bar Exam but my MPRE went stale so I have to study and retake it this August.
Anyone else on here taking the August 10th exam?
Prepared?
Advice?
Recommendations?
Im doing themis, half way done with the course I have mixed feelings... Exam appears to be much harder than I remembered.
Anyone else on here taking the August 10th exam?
Prepared?
Advice?
Recommendations?
Im doing themis, half way done with the course I have mixed feelings... Exam appears to be much harder than I remembered.
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Re: August 2019 MPRE
I didn't know they even had prep courses for the MPRE. The test is really easy, but frequently underestimated. You need to put (some) prep time into it, but not much. If you do absolutely nothing, you stand a decent chance of failing it. But two or three half days learning the rules, with one practice test with explanations should be more than sufficient.
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Re: August 2019 MPRE
What did you do to prep last time?
Themis tends to skew its practice questions harder than the real thing, but if you just do their program, you should be fine.
Themis tends to skew its practice questions harder than the real thing, but if you just do their program, you should be fine.
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Re: August 2019 MPRE
I can't remember if I used themis or barbri it was so long ago. I took the simulated exam today and scored 65% (39/60)cavalier1138 wrote:What did you do to prep last time?
Themis tends to skew its practice questions harder than the real thing, but if you just do their program, you should be fine.
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If you haven't followed their advice and actually read the outline, you should do that. There's a lot of nitpicky stuff that he doesn't cover in the lectures.yennem wrote:I can't remember if I used themis or barbri it was so long ago. I took the simulated exam today and scored 65% (39/60)cavalier1138 wrote:What did you do to prep last time?
Themis tends to skew its practice questions harder than the real thing, but if you just do their program, you should be fine.
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Re: August 2019 MPRE
cav is right. Read the outline line by line. I did only the outline and it turned out to be overkill. I didn't bother with the lectures or practice questions at all (though I certainly recommend doing practice questions - do as I say, not as I did!).cavalier1138 wrote:If you haven't followed their advice and actually read the outline, you should do that. There's a lot of nitpicky stuff that he doesn't cover in the lectures.yennem wrote:I can't remember if I used themis or barbri it was so long ago. I took the simulated exam today and scored 65% (39/60)cavalier1138 wrote:What did you do to prep last time?
Themis tends to skew its practice questions harder than the real thing, but if you just do their program, you should be fine.
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Re: August 2019 MPRE
My MPRE went stale as well and I had to retake it earlier this year. My prep consisted of waking up the morning of the exam and reading the model rules on the ABA website (it was an extremely busy week at work). I then realized I did not have my photograph for the admission ticket so spent a couple hours trying to find a place to get that done before scrambling to the test location with only a couple minutes to spare. I passed (thankfully).
The exam is not very hard but it is very easy to fart around and fail it. I'd say take your time to read the outline/model rules closely and do some practice questions. You'll save yourself alotta stress.
The exam is not very hard but it is very easy to fart around and fail it. I'd say take your time to read the outline/model rules closely and do some practice questions. You'll save yourself alotta stress.
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Re: August 2019 MPRE
I just watched the lectures twice (at 1.5 speed) and took the practice exam under timed conditions. That was enough for me.
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How long did you have to wait to be sworn in after getting your MPRE Score?BeeTeeZ wrote:I just watched the lectures twice (at 1.5 speed) and took the practice exam under timed conditions. That was enough for me.
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Re: August 2019 MPRE
I took the MPRE last November (fall of 3L) and took the Bar last week, so I haven't been sworn in yet.yennem wrote:How long did you have to wait to be sworn in after getting your MPRE Score?BeeTeeZ wrote:I just watched the lectures twice (at 1.5 speed) and took the practice exam under timed conditions. That was enough for me.
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How long did you have to wait to be sworn in after getting your MPRE Score?dadamafia wrote:My MPRE went stale as well and I had to retake it earlier this year. My prep consisted of waking up the morning of the exam and reading the model rules on the ABA website (it was an extremely busy week at work). I then realized I did not have my photograph for the admission ticket so spent a couple hours trying to find a place to get that done before scrambling to the test location with only a couple minutes to spare. I passed (thankfully).
The exam is not very hard but it is very easy to fart around and fail it. I'd say take your time to read the outline/model rules closely and do some practice questions. You'll save yourself alotta stress.
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Re: August 2019 MPRE
Yea.... Ive been having that type of week.. I responded to the wrong person.BeeTeeZ wrote:I took the MPRE last November (fall of 3L) and took the Bar last week, so I haven't been sworn in yet.yennem wrote:How long did you have to wait to be sworn in after getting your MPRE Score?BeeTeeZ wrote:I just watched the lectures twice (at 1.5 speed) and took the practice exam under timed conditions. That was enough for me.
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It happens to the best of us!yennem wrote:Yea.... Ive been having that type of week.. I responded to the wrong person.BeeTeeZ wrote:I took the MPRE last November (fall of 3L) and took the Bar last week, so I haven't been sworn in yet.yennem wrote:How long did you have to wait to be sworn in after getting your MPRE Score?BeeTeeZ wrote:I just watched the lectures twice (at 1.5 speed) and took the practice exam under timed conditions. That was enough for me.
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Re: August 2019 MPRE
Are we allowed to discuss questions?
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No. That's one of the things you promised not to do when you took the ethics exam.quickquestionthanks wrote:Are we allowed to discuss questions?
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Lol literally written on the exam itselfcavalier1138 wrote:No. That's one of the things you promised not to do when you took the ethics exam.quickquestionthanks wrote:Are we allowed to discuss questions?
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Re: August 2019 MPRE
Well pardon me. I was one of those lucky ones who was randomly selected to test at a Pearson center, so perhaps that’s why it wasn’t as “sticky.”yennem wrote:Lol literally written on the exam itselfcavalier1138 wrote:No. That's one of the things you promised not to do when you took the ethics exam.quickquestionthanks wrote:Are we allowed to discuss questions?
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quickquestionthanks wrote:Well pardon me. I was one of those lucky ones who was randomly selected to test at a Pearson center, so perhaps that’s why it wasn’t as “sticky.”yennem wrote:Lol literally written on the exam itselfcavalier1138 wrote:No. That's one of the things you promised not to do when you took the ethics exam.quickquestionthanks wrote:Are we allowed to discuss questions?
How was it?
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Dammit, next time I'll check post history before responding.quickquestionthanks wrote:Well pardon me. I was one of those lucky ones who was randomly selected to test at a Pearson center, so perhaps that’s why it wasn’t as “sticky.”yennem wrote:Lol literally written on the exam itselfcavalier1138 wrote:No. That's one of the things you promised not to do when you took the ethics exam.quickquestionthanks wrote:Are we allowed to discuss questions?
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Re: August 2019 MPRE
I was like the only non 2L/3L Taking the exam today... but regardless why does it take a month to grade this exam? This is worse than waiting for my bar exam scores.
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Re: August 2019 MPRE
The tests all have to be shipped to the scoring center. They have to all be accounted for. They have to all be ran through the scantron machine. Some tests have to be manually graded due to errors. The psychometricians and statisticians audit the results and scale the scores. Questions might be reassessed after the results are in. The scores are all linked to the proper accounts.yennem wrote:I was like the only non 2L/3L Taking the exam today... but regardless why does it take a month to grade this exam? This is worse than waiting for my bar exam scores.
There's a lot to do. It's really not surprising it takes a little over a month to get the results.
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Re: August 2019 MPRE
I just took the bar so have not been sworn in. I took the bar exam and failed back in 2014 but did not retake as I got a job in investment banking before then switching to corporate development at a tech company. Timing was never great to retake but I wanted to switch back to legal so networked into an in-house legal job at a large company (30k or so employees) earlier this year that allowed me to chance to sit this summer.yennem wrote:How long did you have to wait to be sworn in after getting your MPRE Score?dadamafia wrote:My MPRE went stale as well and I had to retake it earlier this year. My prep consisted of waking up the morning of the exam and reading the model rules on the ABA website (it was an extremely busy week at work). I then realized I did not have my photograph for the admission ticket so spent a couple hours trying to find a place to get that done before scrambling to the test location with only a couple minutes to spare. I passed (thankfully).
The exam is not very hard but it is very easy to fart around and fail it. I'd say take your time to read the outline/model rules closely and do some practice questions. You'll save yourself alotta stress.
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Re: August 2019 MPRE
September 5th appears to be the date results are released by the NCBE.
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Didn’t love it. I would have preferred a pencil and paper.yennem wrote:quickquestionthanks wrote:Well pardon me. I was one of those lucky ones who was randomly selected to test at a Pearson center, so perhaps that’s why it wasn’t as “sticky.”yennem wrote:Lol literally written on the exam itselfcavalier1138 wrote:No. That's one of the things you promised not to do when you took the ethics exam.quickquestionthanks wrote:Are we allowed to discuss questions?
How was it?
I went through the online tutorial beforehand, but didn’t realize until halfway through the actual exam that clicking your mouse anywhere on the text of an answer selects the corresponding radio button. So I’m a little concerned I may have inadvertently changed some responses.
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