Barbri paced program question? Forum

[LAWYER2]

MEE Corps, Question 6. FML. He was right about proxies but I had no fucking clue. The MBCA was not even mentioned in the Barbri lecture. I threw shit against the wall, hope it stuck.

LoL, everyone was bitching about that question. I regurgitated some random BJR bullsh!t. So glad I wasn't the only one.

[pkt63]

Did not feel like barbri prepped me well for that! Contrary to what they say about their questions being harder, these felt harder and covered a lot of law that barbri lecturers minimized/practically skipped. I would be shocked if I scored the same, much less better, than on the simulated exam.

[rawrab]

Did not feel like barbri prepped me well for that! Contrary to what they say about their questions being harder, these felt harder and covered a lot of law that barbri lecturers minimized/practically skipped. I would be shocked if I scored the same, much less better, than on the simulated exam.

I agree! The questions seemed just as hard. And I thought they were supposed to be shorter?! They were longer. So long.

[5ky]

Did not feel like barbri prepped me well for that! Contrary to what they say about their questions being harder, these felt harder and covered a lot of law that barbri lecturers minimized/practically skipped. I would be shocked if I scored the same, much less better, than on the simulated exam.

I agree! The questions seemed just as hard. And I thought they were supposed to be shorter?! They were longer. So long.

Pls find last year's thread and you can re-live the exact conversations you are having. Surprise! It turned out fine for everybody

[RPK34]

Morning went fairly well. Afternoon might as well have been a Chinese national citizenship exam. There were several times I read fact patterns and thought I knew what they were looking for, and none of the answers seemed remotely right. And several times I didn't even know what was going on.

[jd20132013]

Haven't been that tired in a long long time. Felt like the MBE was really hard. harder than I thought it would be. I think i did well enough on state essays to still get it, but it might be close...

i swear there were like 20 questions I circled as "potentially experimental"

anyone else feel like it was way harder than you expected? even with doing the real MBE questions from Emanuels still felt like wow

[jd20132013]

there were so many times when i read the fact patterns beginning, thought i knew what to expect, and then they threw in a new twist I'd never seen before.

wild. felt better after the 100 question SFE than I did after this. don't know if its just being tired.

stuck at an airport so just venting a bit. nervous energy still here lol

[TrustMeI'mAnActress]

WHAT WAS THAT SECOND HALF?!!!!

[AJS30]

Haven't been that tired in a long long time. Felt like the MBE was really hard. harder than I thought it would be. I think i did well enough on state essays to still get it, but it might be close...

i swear there were like 20 questions I circled as "potentially experimental"

anyone else feel like it was way harder than you expected? even with doing the real MBE questions from Emanuels still felt like wow

Really didn't want to have to do this again, but I'm afraid after today that it is a very good possibility. I didn't think the questions resembled Barbri, Emanuel's or even the ncbe exam I bought. already know I definitely got one wrong due to my lack of vocabulary.

[pkt63]

WHAT WAS THAT SECOND HALF?!!!!

We all potentially have different orders/questions right? I saw some code like 6 CI or something on mine that I thought might be the version. ..

My morning definitely felt worse, but I also made a conscious decision in the afternoon to start trusting my gut again.

[AJS30]

Also, the girl next to me said she counted her answers to make sure she had 25 of each letter choice because apparently there's supposed to be an even distribution in answer choices?

[sundance95]

Also, the girl next to me said she counted her answers to make sure she had 25 of each letter choice because apparently there's supposed to be an even distribution in answer choices?

Lol no

this, I don't even, what is

[lalala21]

Morning went fairly well. Afternoon might as well have been a Chinese national citizenship exam. There were several times I read fact patterns and thought I knew what they were looking for, and none of the answers seemed remotely right. And several times I didn't even know what was going on.

This - So many times I eliminated ALL of the answer choices...

[pkt63]

Morning went fairly well. Afternoon might as well have been a Chinese national citizenship exam. There were several times I read fact patterns and thought I knew what they were looking for, and none of the answers seemed remotely right. And several times I didn't even know what was going on.

This - So many times I eliminated ALL of the answer choices...

Same. That never happened to me on Barbri practice...

[pkt63]

Did not feel like barbri prepped me well for that! Contrary to what they say about their questions being harder, these felt harder and covered a lot of law that barbri lecturers minimized/practically skipped. I would be shocked if I scored the same, much less better, than on the simulated exam.

I agree! The questions seemed just as hard. And I thought they were supposed to be shorter?! They were longer. So long.

Pls find last year's thread and you can re-live the exact conversations you are having. Surprise! It turned out fine for everybody

Yeah, I was thinking of doing that, but it just seems like the impression all the past takers have left (with me anyway) on our current threads have been that the day of feels slightly to a lot easier, consistent with Barbri's statements that they are in fact statistically harder. I may be selectively remembering, or perhaps past bar takers feel better about that day in retrospect, once they do pass an exam.

I guess I'll go dig the thread up because I don't want to feel this shitty for 4 months...

[alphagamma]

Also, the girl next to me said she counted her answers to make sure she had 25 of each letter choice because apparently there's supposed to be an even distribution in answer choices?

Lol no

this, I don't even, what is

Seperac figured out that the MBE ten years ago always had 50 answers of each letter. I don't think that works out to exactly 25 each per half, though. And that was years ago anyway. Poor girl.

[5ky]

Did not feel like barbri prepped me well for that! Contrary to what they say about their questions being harder, these felt harder and covered a lot of law that barbri lecturers minimized/practically skipped. I would be shocked if I scored the same, much less better, than on the simulated exam.

I agree! The questions seemed just as hard. And I thought they were supposed to be shorter?! They were longer. So long.

Pls find last year's thread and you can re-live the exact conversations you are having. Surprise! It turned out fine for everybody

Yeah, I was thinking of doing that, but it just seems like the impression all the past takers have left (with me anyway) on our current threads have been that the day of feels slightly to a lot easier, consistent with Barbri's statements that they are in fact statistically harder. I may be selectively remembering, or perhaps past bar takers feel better about that day in retrospect, once they do pass an exam.

I guess I'll go dig the thread up because I don't want to feel this shitty for 4 months...

http://top-law-schools.com/forums/viewt ... start=1800

[ceereeus420]

It should be recorded for posterity that the MBE was just as passable as it was every year, that the bar prep companies did as good a job as they did every year, and that all of our panic after the bar was more related to the fact that (a) we could only remember the tricky questions, (b) couldn't immediately grade it, and (c) just felt harder under the stress of the day.

when people taking the 2014 bar go back and read this thread to see how people felt after the mbe, they should be comforted to know that everybody thought it was way harder than any practice exams, even though that wasn't the case. it just felt harder.

Saw this post on that thread from last year. I still don't feel better, but at least I feel like I should feel better, if that means anything.

[pkt63]

Good to know. Thanks so much!

[beachbum]

Honestly, I thought it was on par with what Barbri had given us. Not significantly harder, not significantly easier. The two big differences I saw were that 1) the MBE questions were often written/structured differently than barbri's, and that can kind of throw you for a loop after becoming accustomed to barbri's formatting and style, and 2) a fair number of MBE questions tested points of law that weren't emphasized in lectures. But, overall, the subjects that barbri told us would be tested were tested, and I counted only a handful of questions that were completely out of left field.

I don't feel particularly good or particularly bad after taking the MBE. So, we'll see what happens. But until then, it's time to get to drinking.

[MoneyMay]

FL had a girl freakout and start yelling in the middle of the exam. That's what a fucked up MBE will do to ya.

[Albatross]

I seem to be in the minority in thinking that the AM exam was incredibly difficult. Tons of things I feel like Barbri didn't cover. During the PM exam I at least knew what they were talking about 90% of the time.

[jd20132013]

Am was harder than pm

[pizzasodafries]

I seem to be in the minority in thinking that the AM exam was incredibly difficult. Tons of things I feel like Barbri didn't cover. During the PM exam I at least knew what they were talking about 90% of the time.

Exact same, PM felt way easier

[LAWYER2]

FL had a girl freakout and start yelling in the middle of the exam. That's what a fucked up MBE will do to ya.

Aw, that sux. I was actually looking for anyone who looked like they might pop. I did see a gal crying before the AM session, but I wanted no part of that negative energy.

I didn't feel any kind of way. The entire AM/PM seemed entirely do-able and straight forward. There were a couple property that I was like WTF, but other than that I felt ok.

Someone posted a method awhile back about going through the exam and marking each question by subject then doing one subject at a time. I consistently practiced using that method and did it on the exam today. I felt in control of the exam. We'll see if it works Oct 4th!