Sprout wrote:MrT wrote:jingosaur wrote:So are BarBri questions easier or harder than real bar exam questions? Based on my scores so far, I'm thinking that the workshop questions are easier and the subject sets are harder, but it's hard to tell because I'm still not very good at these questions.
Also, fuck this outage. I planned to watch 10 hours of videos today.
Consensus is that, overall, the BarBri questions are more difficult than the real thing. However, my experience is that the CivPro questions specifically are slightly easier. Note that as you go along, the subject question sets will get progressively more difficult. At the end, the questions are seemingly impossible (refrain from breaking your computer).
Regardless,
make use of the percentile rankings that BarBri provides. You MBE is score is graded on a curve so it's a pretty solid indicator of where you will ultimately fall on that curve.
Bolded - how do we do this
At some point, I know there is an intro video that explain this all in great detail but I will sum up the best I can.
For each subject, BarBri will show you your percentile rank relative to all other BarBri user (like 11,000 people). This number will constantly update as you answer more and more questions for that particular subject. So, for instance, if you are in the 60th percentile, you will have answered more questions correctly than 60% of all BarBri users. BarBri goes even further and will show you how well you did on each question set, as well as each question type. So in Contracts it may break down how well you perform on "offer and acceptance," "consideration," and "remedies" (these are guesses on the categories).
As you progress, you will get a decent visual of where you stand overall and where you need to focus your studies. For me, I was consistently in 90th percentile or better in Torts but closer to the 45th percentile on Property. So I re-reviewed Property more often but also made sure I was consistent in Torts.
Once you get through all the subjects, you can then go to your state and determine what the pass rate is in the state and what the necessary MBE is. So for NY, you need a 133 MBE score to be on target. So you use the 133 and compare it to NCBE's historical statistics (
http://www.ncbex.org/publications/stati ... tatistics/). Looking at this chart, roughly 72% of all [July 2016] MBE takers score[d] 135 or better. Knowing this, you know you need to shoot to be AT LEAST in the 30th percentile or so in all subjects. Of course, the higher your overall percentile, the better. If you are below this threshhold, you need to step back and evaluate how to attack the subject.
I know that this is a lot of math and statistics and numbers are not lawyers friends so feel free to ask for clarification.