BarBri Thread: People taking Barbri for July 2013 exam Forum

[c3pO4]

Ahead of the barbri arrow, killing practice MBE quizes on the reg, minimally competent on any subject essay practiced, dominating MPT practices... feel like I could pass the exam today. doomed? what do you do once you reach this point, and there's still 3 weeks to go. just drill/rotate MBEs and Essays endlessly? if i throttle back the pace worried I will lose my quickness/muscle memory or worse fundamentals. anybody else feeling this (assuming there have to be some people out there who are on pace and not behind).

ETA: ok, i would probably 55 a wills question but who cares

[tfer2222]

Ahead of the barbri arrow, killing practice MBE quizes on the reg, minimally competent on any subject essay practiced, dominating MPT practices... feel like I could pass the exam today. doomed? what do you do once you reach this point, and there's still 3 weeks to go. just drill/rotate MBEs and Essays endlessly? if i throttle back the pace worried I will lose my quickness/muscle memory or worse fundamentals. anybody else feeling this (assuming there have to be some people out there who are on pace and not behind).

yes "killing" and "dominating" 3 weeks too early = doomed.

I'm not even sure its possible to be ahead of my barbri arrow.

I'd just memorize essay subjects more and start "killing" and "dominating" those as well

[c3pO4]

Ahead of the barbri arrow, killing practice MBE quizes on the reg, minimally competent on any subject essay practiced, dominating MPT practices... feel like I could pass the exam today. doomed? what do you do once you reach this point, and there's still 3 weeks to go. just drill/rotate MBEs and Essays endlessly? if i throttle back the pace worried I will lose my quickness/muscle memory or worse fundamentals. anybody else feeling this (assuming there have to be some people out there who are on pace and not behind).

yes "killing" and "dominating" 3 weeks too early = doomed.

I'm not even sure its possible to be ahead of my barbri arrow.

peaked too early? you want to be peaking in the playoffs. see: denver nuggets

[tfer2222]

peaked too early? you want to be peaking in the playoffs. see: denver nuggets

goal is to pass dood, not to ace. i'm sure you'll be fine.

[bgdddymtty]

Ahead of the barbri arrow, killing practice MBE quizes on the reg, minimally competent on any subject essay practiced, dominating MPT practices... feel like I could pass the exam today. doomed? what do you do once you reach this point, and there's still 3 weeks to go. just drill/rotate MBEs and Essays endlessly? if i throttle back the pace worried I will lose my quickness/muscle memory or worse fundamentals. anybody else feeling this (assuming there have to be some people out there who are on pace and not behind).

yes "killing" and "dominating" 3 weeks too early = doomed.

I'm not even sure its possible to be ahead of my barbri arrow.

peaked too early? you want to be peaking in the playoffs. see: denver nuggets

Except that passing the bar requires minimal competency. You don't have to be the Heat; you just have to not be the Bobcats.

[AntiHuman]

nerds lol smh

[Joe Quincy]

Ahead of the barbri arrow, killing practice MBE quizes on the reg, minimally competent on any subject essay practiced, dominating MPT practices... feel like I could pass the exam today. doomed? what do you do once you reach this point, and there's still 3 weeks to go. just drill/rotate MBEs and Essays endlessly? if i throttle back the pace worried I will lose my quickness/muscle memory or worse fundamentals. anybody else feeling this (assuming there have to be some people out there who are on pace and not behind).

ETA: ok, i would probably 55 a wills question but who cares

If this is true, you have wasted dozens of hours of your life. Congrats. Why on earth would you not scale back once you got that point? I'm not even at the arrow...not because I couldn't be...but because it would be a colossal waste of time.

[jawsthegreat]

So what's a good score for the practice MBE?

Need to decide whether or not to freak out.

[c3pO4]

Ahead of the barbri arrow, killing practice MBE quizes on the reg, minimally competent on any subject essay practiced, dominating MPT practices... feel like I could pass the exam today. doomed? what do you do once you reach this point, and there's still 3 weeks to go. just drill/rotate MBEs and Essays endlessly? if i throttle back the pace worried I will lose my quickness/muscle memory or worse fundamentals. anybody else feeling this (assuming there have to be some people out there who are on pace and not behind).

ETA: ok, i would probably 55 a wills question but who cares

If this is true, you have wasted dozens of hours of your life. Congrats. Why on earth would you not scale back once you got that point? I'm not even at the arrow...not because I couldn't be...but because it would be a colossal waste of time.

well i don't really have a life, and even if i found something better to do (all the things i plan to do in august), i wouldn't be able to enjoy/relax just bc im that kind of person. so might as well just study 24/7. as long as it doesn't *cause* me to fail, i don't care if i waste time

[BCLS]

So what's a good score for the practice MBE?

Need to decide whether or not to freak out.

110-120

[jawsthegreat]

[c3pO4]

So what's a good score for the practice MBE?

Need to decide whether or not to freak out.

110-120

Sweet. So if I got a 137 I can feel pretty good?

#humblebrag

[DwightSchruteFarms]

So what's a good score for the practice MBE?

Need to decide whether or not to freak out.

110-120

Sweet. So if I got a 137 I can feel pretty good?

What the f*ck do you think? Is 137 between 110-120? No? Ok, so is it below or above? Kind of seems like it is above. So if someone gives you a range for a "good score" and you are 17 points above the higher end of that range, what can you deduce?

I mean this highscoretrolling on TLS can get ridiculous sometimes.

[c3pO4]

So what's a good score for the practice MBE?

Need to decide whether or not to freak out.

110-120

Sweet. So if I got a 137 I can feel pretty good?

What the f*ck do you think? Is 137 between 110-120? No? Ok, so is it below or above? Kind of seems like it is above. So if someone gives you a range for a "good score" and you are 17 points above the higher end of that range, what can you deduce?

I mean this highscoretrolling on TLS can get ridiculous sometimes.

i read this in the voice of dwight schrute

[lawdawg09]

Is it safe to be using the Sakai essay video mini battle outlines to rely on for the non MBE BLL? I have done all the substantive law videos with the fill in the blank outlines and so far I have found them all useless. I learn by doing MBEs and writing and re-writing essays.

The clock is ticking and I want to be efficient as possible here on out. My MBE scores thus far are above average so I am focusing on honing my essay skills and organization.

My mentality at this point is this: I couldn't give two shits about some obscure portion of the law that is in the CMR and not the battle outline. If SHTF on test day, I can (hopefully) rely on my ability to bullshit some amazing rule statements. It is all about that 65.

Looking at the CA released model answers, it is clear that those gunners were improvising with some of their rule statements and taking liberties with the law. If that can get an 85, I figure my time is better spent working on getting the major testable issues down while relying on the "forest" approach to the periphery.

[kaiser]

So if we don't actually submit these simulated MBE scantrons, can we still find out our scaled score once they create the curve?

[5ky]

So if we don't actually submit these simulated MBE scantrons, can we still find out our scaled score once they create the curve?

there's no 'scaled' score i don't think. you get a percentile, if that's what you mean.

[bgdddymtty]

So if we don't actually submit these simulated MBE scantrons, can we still find out our scaled score once they create the curve?

there's no 'scaled' score i don't think. you get a percentile, if that's what you mean.

Also, the percentile has to be estimated/backward-looking, since there's no other way they could tell the first wave of students what their percentile is. Doing it that way is fine, since there's no reason for Barbri to make more than minor year-to-year tweaks in the test and there's not much reason to suspect that one year's students are any better or worse than the average of past years. It does, however, seem a bit shady--and unnecessarily so--to sell it to us as "how you stack up against the very students you'll be taking the bar exam with" or whatever.

[kaiser]

Ok, so then I guess last year's percentile guide is a good indicator of where we stand.

[hds2388]

So if we don't actually submit these simulated MBE scantrons, can we still find out our scaled score once they create the curve?

there's no 'scaled' score i don't think. you get a percentile, if that's what you mean.

Also, the percentile has to be estimated/backward-looking, since there's no other way they could tell the first wave of students what their percentile is. Doing it that way is fine, since there's no reason for Barbri to make more than minor year-to-year tweaks in the test and there's not much reason to suspect that one year's students are any better or worse than the average of past years. It does, however, seem a bit shady--and unnecessarily so--to sell it to us as "how you stack up against the very students you'll be taking the bar exam with" or whatever.

I don't understand why you're saying it has to be estimated. Can't they just grade all of our tests when they come in today/tomorrow and figure out where in the percentile continuum we stand? The jdxn's all take it on the same day or two for the most part (state by state) so you know where you stand against your entire jdxn, which is who you take the test against. Perhaps I;m confused how they do this.

[tfer2222]

So what's a good score for the practice MBE?

Need to decide whether or not to freak out.

110-120

Sweet. So if I got a 137 I can feel pretty good?

What the f*ck do you think? Is 137 between 110-120? No? Ok, so is it below or above? Kind of seems like it is above. So if someone gives you a range for a "good score" and you are 17 points above the higher end of that range, what can you deduce?

I mean this highscoretrolling on TLS can get ridiculous sometimes.

i vote you freak out because its not far enough above average. yikes. better get studying dude.

[bgdddymtty]

So if we don't actually submit these simulated MBE scantrons, can we still find out our scaled score once they create the curve?

there's no 'scaled' score i don't think. you get a percentile, if that's what you mean.

Also, the percentile has to be estimated/backward-looking, since there's no other way they could tell the first wave of students what their percentile is. Doing it that way is fine, since there's no reason for Barbri to make more than minor year-to-year tweaks in the test and there's not much reason to suspect that one year's students are any better or worse than the average of past years. It does, however, seem a bit shady--and unnecessarily so--to sell it to us as "how you stack up against the very students you'll be taking the bar exam with" or whatever.

I don't understand why you're saying it has to be estimated. Can't they just grade all of our tests when they come in today/tomorrow and figure out where in the percentile continuum we stand? The jdxn's all take it on the same day or two for the most part (state by state) so you know where you stand against your entire jdxn, which is who you take the test against. Perhaps I;m confused how they do this.

The claim is that you get your score against all the other Barbri students in the nation. Since those tests are graded over the course of three Tuesdays, there's no way to give accurate, immediate information to any but the last cohort of students.

Also, just because students are testing in the same jurisdiction doesn't mean they have the same/similar schedules. A lot of it is dependent on when a student's law school finishes its academic year. I'd imagine that a bar like New York that takes candidates from all over the country probably has a significant percentage of its candidates taking the simulated MBE each of the three Saturdays it's offered.

[hds2388]

The claim is that you get your score against all the other Barbri students in the nation. Since those tests are graded over the course of three Tuesdays, there's no way to give accurate, immediate information to any but the last cohort of students.

Also, just because students are testing in the same jurisdiction doesn't mean they have the same/similar schedules. A lot of it is dependent on when a student's law school finishes its academic year. I'd imagine that a bar like New York that takes candidates from all over the country probably has a significant percentage of its candidates taking the simulated MBE each of the three Saturdays it's offered.

Where is the claim were measured against ALL students taking it?

Further, even for those first students, you are graded against the people against whom you're taking the bar (or a one-third subset of them). And given for instance, the vast majority of NY took the test today and yesterday, we are being judged against a significant subset of the people taking it in our jdxn. Worst case, you're judged against 1/3 of the country? That doesn't seem gripe-worthy or misleading to me.

Not to be a barbri apologist, I just don't get why you thought it was misleading.

[5ky]

I'd think the sample size from wave 1 and then especially with wave 2 would be big enough that a large part of it would be based on this years' students.

And aside from the few schools like Stanford that have june graduations, I think almost every school is on the same schedule for a state like NY

[de5igual]

Also, if the simulated mbe percentile is reported like the studysmart, the percentiles can be updated nightly (or weekly, as the case may be)