California Bar Exam (July 2014) thread Forum

[a male human]

Does anyone know what a good score is on the MBE questions in Emanuel's "Strategies and Tactics" book?

There are no suggested scores/"goals" that I am aware of in the book. In the alternative, is anyone willing to post what they're getting so all of us have an idea if we're in the ballpark of where we should be at this point?

I just did the 58 Torts question on pages 350-364 and got 38/58= 65%. Previously i did the 41 Contracts questions on pages 86 - 97 and got 25/41 =60%. Am i anywhere close to where I should be at this point?

Thanks for everyone's help!

Those are good scores this early on. Sometime by July, I would do the 6-hour practice test in the back of Vol 1 and aim for 130+ raw. I would be worried if I didn't make 130. Well, I would be worried regardless unless I got all 200

[rburgundy]

How are you all outlining for each subject? The Barbri outlines tend to be 20-30+ pages and I'm pretty sure most of it doesn't get tested often. How do you know what to condense down to 5-7 pages max?

[james11]

Would it be safe to assume that the "true" score of a barbri essay/PT is 5-10 points higher?

With my experience, the barbri essay grading was all over the place. Some seemed more accurate than others. It probably depends on the grader.

A friend was a grader for barbri and he was basically a recent law grad who passed the exam, but didn't have prior experience as a real grader or anything like that.

If you look at the real essays that score 65, 70, 75 on baressays.com and compare them to barbri's grades, you'll notice the differences.

[jarofsoup]

What are barbri folks doing with their day off tomorrow? This is the last day off we have for like ever.

[ilovesf]

What are barbri folks doing with their day off tomorrow? This is the last day off we have for like ever.

going to sonoma & sitting by the pool

[a male human]

Did you guys have a break for Memorial Day?

[jarofsoup]

We started on Monday, but we kinda hit it hard this week.

[071816]

I already feel insanity setting in and this is my first week

[jarofsoup]

I already feel insanity setting in and this is my first week

Its important to remain chill. We have 2 months of studying

[jess]

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[zeth006]

I haven't started studying yet. I thought maybe June 1 would be a good date?

CA Bar let me change my test center even though it was full, so I am very excited about that.

Yeah, I've been keeping it really light myself. I've just outlined and done MBEs for a couple of subjects. After slacking off today, probably going to start hitting the ground hard tomorrow.

I think most people are just finding their feet.

[adonai]

I haven't started studying yet. I thought maybe June 1 would be a good date?

CA Bar let me change my test center even though it was full, so I am very excited about that.

Yeah, I've been keeping it really light myself. I've just outlined and done MBEs for a couple of subjects. After slacking off today, probably going to start hitting the ground hard tomorrow.

I think most people are just finding their feet.

It is week 2 for me and I still don't know what I'm doing. I took 2 practice PTs and didn't know what I was doing but apparently I did very well on them.

[s1m4]

What have people done so far?

[LSATNightmares]

My class started a week early and stopped the second week because of a certain school's graduation, but I kept working through the second week. I'm a slow memorizer and anxiety easily gets to me, so I figured I should continue working so I'm less stressed later on if/when I fall behind. So far, I've done Torts, Contracts, Con Law. I learned Contracts well, but after I did Con Law, I discovered I had already forgotten a lot of Contracts after two days.

[jarofsoup]

What have people done so far?

Torts. Making flash cards and drilling mbes. Start contracts tonight. Basically I have decided that doing some memorization is better than amps

[hyc9598]

What would be the average typing speed? What would be the ideal speed?

[uvauvauva]

Haven't started studying. Will probably start studying the second week of June. Or sooner.

I'm not taking a class and this is my state that I am trying to be barred in.

[hyc9598]

How many words do you write for essay and pt? 1,000 words and 2,000 words? Or 600 words and 1,200 words?

[zeth006]

What have people done so far?

K MBEs. Probably not going to touch essays for at least another week or two until I've gotten the BLL down cold.

[hyc9598]

Will taking mock mbe 100q exam on this Sunday be helpful?

[duskfall]

Will taking mock mbe 100q exam on this Sunday be helpful?

yes

[jarofsoup]

Are barbri's MBE questions really harder than the real thing. I feel like they are all on the fringe.

[Lwoods]

Are barbri's MBE questions really harder than the real thing. I feel like they are all on the fringe.

You mean the study smart questions? I feel like those are much harder than the questions from the book (which I think are past MBE questions?).

[zeth006]

From what I've seen, Barbri question hypos tend to be way longer and often times confusing as a result. Most real MBE questions from BarMax I can read answer well within the 1min 48s allotted per question.

Just my $0.02. If I ever for some odd reason run out of BarMax Qs, I'll probably revisit a few BarBri ones.

[lmr]

Have you guys done barbri's contracts yet? I'm on day two and find the amount of information really overwhelming. I've been going over lecture handout w the cmr but they aren't exactly aligned the same way logically. I'm understanding the concepts and everything but i'm just really confused as to what my source for memorization should be when it comes down to it. Should I rewrite my lecture notes omitting the hypos/make that my outline for memorization? I thought that was considered a waste of time.