I don't know the exact formula, but I look at it this way: If your MBE was less than 125 then there's no way in hell that you'll pass. If your MBE was between 125 and 130 then your AVERAGE essay score would have to be a 4 or higher. If your MBE was between 130 and ~140 then you could afford to mess up on one or two essays, but the majority of your essays would have to be 4 or higher. If your MBE was above 140 then you'd have to average a 3 on the essays to pass (in the February 2015 exam that I flunked, my average essay score was a 3. That was converted to 127.8 ). If your MBE was above 150 then you could mess up on each essay (2 average) and still pass.Njbar wrote:What is raw essay score for a 136 scaled score? I think feb curve is aleays lower than july. Also I noticed that NJ always give lower score when they regrad essays.
Of course, this is just an ESTIMATE
If you didn't pass, don't feel bad about it. Any law school graduate can pass the NJ bar (I got 3 D's in law school and passed in July). You just simply have to know how to game the system. Like I said before, the NJ questions are hard but predictable. Simply look at every essay you can get your hands on and then regurgitate the answers on the actual exam.
The names of the characters in the fact patterns may change, but the scenarios are usually the same (Example: two guys robbing a bank and inadvertently committing murder, then an illegal search; a machine malfunctions and injures someone and/or someone does something stupid and injures someone, but there's a defense such as the danger wasn't foreseeable; a plaintiff was denied a constitutional right; two parties have a dispute about whether an easement existed; a person who traveled through a state where they don't live in but regularly visits to conduct business disputes whether there's personal or subject matter jurisdiction, ...).
I HIGHLY recommend taking the July 2016 NJ Bar. Take it NOW before they make it much more difficult with the UBE in February 2017.
