MBE - how'd you feel? Forum

[juniormint33]

Lol that's awesome to hear about so many D's. Makes me feel not alone.

But it was weird. The fact patterns were more straightforward than Barbri's, but the answers were way more narrow than I was ready for. At least a couple I had it down to two answers that were nearly identical but were separated by a word like "sufficiently" or something.

I know - lol what about all those jury questions? Over my head man.

a prosecutor can only be prevented from exercising preemptory challenges to potential jurors if it violates the equal protection clause. is that right?

Can use preemptory challenges for anything other than race or gender was my understanding.

[musicfor18]

Lol that's awesome to hear about so many D's. Makes me feel not alone.

But it was weird. The fact patterns were more straightforward than Barbri's, but the answers were way more narrow than I was ready for. At least a couple I had it down to two answers that were nearly identical but were separated by a word like "sufficiently" or something.

I know - lol what about all those jury questions? Over my head man.

a prosecutor can only be prevented from exercising preemptory challenges to potential jurors if it violates the equal protection clause. is that right?

I think so.

[jamescastle]

When does the NCBE release MBE questions?
I think it'd be interesting to run everything they've posted through a computer text analytics program and see how accurate it would be at predicting answers using keywords and stuff like that in the question. Or even just finding answers in certain categories of question that are never right.

[somuchbooty]

I was annoyed with the apparent authority question b/c one of the other answer choices was logically right if it was valid, and it seemed like the prompt asked you to assume it was valid.

[ReachTheBar79]

I was annoyed with the apparent authority question b/c one of the other answer choices was logically right if it was valid, and it seemed like the prompt asked you to assume it was valid.

I said it was A.A., I think.

[old_soul]

I was annoyed with the apparent authority question b/c one of the other answer choices was logically right if it was valid, and it seemed like the prompt asked you to assume it was valid.

I said it was A.A., I think.

I picked apparent auth. >_<

[lakerinstl]

Lol that's awesome to hear about so many D's. Makes me feel not alone.

But it was weird. The fact patterns were more straightforward than Barbri's, but the answers were way more narrow than I was ready for. At least a couple I had it down to two answers that were nearly identical but were separated by a word like "sufficiently" or something.

I know - lol what about all those jury questions? Over my head man.

a prosecutor can only be prevented from exercising preemptory challenges to potential jurors if it violates the equal protection clause. is that right?

Yeah believe so. And the question prompt was about the jurisdiction allowing more than 3 which made me think for a second.

[ReachTheBar79]

I was annoyed with the apparent authority question b/c one of the other answer choices was logically right if it was valid, and it seemed like the prompt asked you to assume it was valid.

I said it was A.A., I think.

I picked apparent auth. >_<

So, are we saying that our AA pick was incorrect or....?

[dietcoke0]

Anyone finish super fast? Been hearing a lot of people saying it was a time crunch, but I finished like 55 minutes early in the am session, and like 35 minutes early in the pm session. I don't go back to questions because I've found I second the correct answer too much, and am good at recognizing correct answers right away (when reading the prompt, I try to guess what they will ask, and what the correct question will be, and at least in practice q's it's generally correct) but was shocked when I heard people were having time issues. Just seeing I was the only one, or if I was foolish. I never felt confident about the answers, but learned a while ago to trust my instincts.

[somuchbooty]

I was annoyed with the apparent authority question b/c one of the other answer choices was logically right if it was valid, and it seemed like the prompt asked you to assume it was valid.

I said it was A.A., I think.

I picked apparent auth. >_<

So, are we saying that our AA pick was incorrect or....?

It's probably correct TBH. I spent like 10 minutes debating whether to change it to the other one and ended up not doing it because the other one, while right, I hadn't read shit on.

[lakerinstl]

Glad to hear everyone thought this test was weird. So many D answers and Earnest Money.

To paraphrase Radioactive Man: "My Score! The MBE Prep does nothing!"

wtf was earnest money?! i saw it like 2-3 times?!

Haha I'm glad I'm not the only one puzzled by all those earnest money questions. I'm mouthing "thanks for the earnest money practice questions, Kaplan" every time I saw a question involving them.

[ReachTheBar79]

I was annoyed with the apparent authority question b/c one of the other answer choices was logically right if it was valid, and it seemed like the prompt asked you to assume it was valid.

I said it was A.A., I think.

I picked apparent auth. >_<

So, are we saying that our AA pick was incorrect or....?

It's probably correct TBH. I spent like 10 minutes debating whether to change it to the other one and ended up not doing it because the other one, while right, I hadn't read shit on.

Hopefully! I wonder what the scale will be? I wonder how high they've gone before. Everyone I know thought that it was tough.

[lakerinstl]

Anyone finish super fast? Been hearing a lot of people saying it was a time crunch, but I finished like 55 minutes early in the am session, and like 35 minutes early in the pm session. I don't go back to questions because I've found I second the correct answer too much, and am good at recognizing correct answers right away (when reading the prompt, I try to guess what they will ask, and what the correct question will be, and at least in practice q's it's generally correct) but was shocked when I heard people were having time issues. Just seeing I was the only one, or if I was foolish. I never felt confident about the answers, but learned a while ago to trust my instincts.

Finished with 16 minutes left in the AM and 13 minutes left in the PM session. A couple of people finished with around 40 or so minutes left in my testing room. Most stayed finishing to the end.

[somuchbooty]

The guy next to me was on problem 74 with 5 minutes left. Felt bad for him. Maybe that'll help someone's analysis a bit.

[Veridian40]

Anyone finish super fast? Been hearing a lot of people saying it was a time crunch, but I finished like 55 minutes early in the am session, and like 35 minutes early in the pm session. I don't go back to questions because I've found I second the correct answer too much, and am good at recognizing correct answers right away (when reading the prompt, I try to guess what they will ask, and what the correct question will be, and at least in practice q's it's generally correct) but was shocked when I heard people were having time issues. Just seeing I was the only one, or if I was foolish. I never felt confident about the answers, but learned a while ago to trust my instincts.

Finished with 16 minutes left in the AM and 13 minutes left in the PM session. A couple of people finished with around 40 or so minutes left in my testing room. Most stayed finishing to the end.

I literally finished with about 28 minutes to go both times...it was super irritating because you were stuck in the room after the 30 minute warning.

[zot1]

Why are we discussing actual questions? It's not like we can go back and change them. It's just gonna freak us out more. Go have a drink.

[Outis Onoma]

I usually finished the barbri / emmanuel stuff with 50 minutes to spare. Had only 15 minutes left in AM and 25 in PM. Guess I was distracted too much by girls in yoga pants.

[dietcoke0]

The guy next to me was on problem 74 with 5 minutes left. Felt bad for him. Maybe that'll help someone's analysis a bit.

Jesus, that's like 3 minutes per question. Maybe I read and digest fast, but I'd go crazy analyzing each 100 word question that long. I generally read, cross out obvious wrong, reread facts if necessary, then look at remaining choices until I get correct answer.

[starryski]

Why are we discussing actual questions? It's not like we can go back and change them. It's just gonna freak us out more. Go have a drink.

ive had like 3 glasses of wine. still worried and not drunk

[somuchbooty]

The guy next to me was on problem 74 with 5 minutes left. Felt bad for him. Maybe that'll help someone's analysis a bit.

Jesus, that's like 3 minutes per question. Maybe I read and digest fast, but I'd go crazy analyzing each 100 word question that long. I generally read, cross out obvious wrong, reread facts if necessary, then look at remaining choices until I get correct answer.

Think he was just a slow reader, he kept changing positions and fidgeting, I had to turn to the left so he would quit distracting me.

[lakerinstl]

Anyone finish super fast? Been hearing a lot of people saying it was a time crunch, but I finished like 55 minutes early in the am session, and like 35 minutes early in the pm session. I don't go back to questions because I've found I second the correct answer too much, and am good at recognizing correct answers right away (when reading the prompt, I try to guess what they will ask, and what the correct question will be, and at least in practice q's it's generally correct) but was shocked when I heard people were having time issues. Just seeing I was the only one, or if I was foolish. I never felt confident about the answers, but learned a while ago to trust my instincts.

Finished with 16 minutes left in the AM and 13 minutes left in the PM session. A couple of people finished with around 40 or so minutes left in my testing room. Most stayed finishing to the end.

I literally finished with about 28 minutes to go both times...it was super irritating because you were stuck in the room after the 30 minute warning.

Yeah when I came down to the last 5 or so questions I slowed my pace down to a crawl. Or else I would have been sitting there for 25 minutes to looking at questions second guessing myself or just looking around.

[starryski]

The guy next to me was on problem 74 with 5 minutes left. Felt bad for him. Maybe that'll help someone's analysis a bit.

Jesus, that's like 3 minutes per question. Maybe I read and digest fast, but I'd go crazy analyzing each 100 word question that long. I generally read, cross out obvious wrong, reread facts if necessary, then look at remaining choices until I get correct answer.

maybe he skipped around? i did every 33 when i felt i was falling into a rut or just not getting many in a row

[somuchbooty]

The guy next to me was on problem 74 with 5 minutes left. Felt bad for him. Maybe that'll help someone's analysis a bit.

Jesus, that's like 3 minutes per question. Maybe I read and digest fast, but I'd go crazy analyzing each 100 word question that long. I generally read, cross out obvious wrong, reread facts if necessary, then look at remaining choices until I get correct answer.

maybe he skipped around? i did every 33 when i felt i was falling into a rut or just not getting many in a row

that's super strange good for you

[Veridian40]

The guy next to me was on problem 74 with 5 minutes left. Felt bad for him. Maybe that'll help someone's analysis a bit.

Jesus, that's like 3 minutes per question. Maybe I read and digest fast, but I'd go crazy analyzing each 100 word question that long. I generally read, cross out obvious wrong, reread facts if necessary, then look at remaining choices until I get correct answer.

maybe he skipped around? i did every 33 when i felt i was falling into a rut or just not getting many in a row

I do weird stuff like that too...I started the afternoon session doing 100-90 in reverse order.

[jamescastle]

Girl next to me blazed through everything but had about a third or more blank on her answer sheet. Dunno how many she eventually just had to purely guess on to make time.