BarBri Bar Review Hangout - February 2016 Exam Forum

[BrokenMouse]

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[jamescastle]

Can someone please explain wtf "Secured Transaction" essay is? I've seen it from time to time and I have no clue wtf this is. Is this an essay specific to certain state? I am from CA and never heard this covered even once in Barbri.

It's an essay topic we have in Texas and I know quite a few Texas people are posting in this thread. Dunno about other states though.

[FinallyPassedTheBar]

Can someone please explain wtf "Secured Transaction" essay is? I've seen it from time to time and I have no clue wtf this is. Is this an essay specific to certain state? I am from CA and never heard this covered even once in Barbri.

I believe Purchase Money mortgages and Purchase Money Security Interests (ex: a lender granting a car loan to someone, and the lender taking an interest in the car itself) are considered "secured transactions". I don't remember if that is on the CA exam, but I remember lots of it from law school *I went to New York Law School)

[rinkrat19]

Oregon also has SecTrans. It's what the previous poster said--debt secured by some asset, and what priority various claims on an asset have when someone owes money to errybody.

We don't have Commercial Paper, whatever that is.

[DueProcessDoWheelies]

Can someone please explain wtf "Secured Transaction" essay is? I've seen it from time to time and I have no clue wtf this is. Is this an essay specific to certain state? I am from CA and never heard this covered even once in Barbri.

It's an essay topic we have in Texas and I know quite a few Texas people are posting in this thread. Dunno about other states though.

It's also an MEE topic. I'm in TX, hoping for Secured + Contracts on Thursday. Hate commercial paper.

[rinkrat19]

...well?

That could have gone worse, and I think it went a little bit better than July. That's about all I'll say.

[ReachTheBar79]

...well?

That could have gone worse, and I think it went a little bit better than July. That's about all I'll say.

What did?

[rinkrat19]

...well?

That could have gone worse, and I think it went a little bit better than July. That's about all I'll say.

What did?

Day one of the exam.

[bball700]

...well?

That could have gone worse, and I think it went a little bit better than July. That's about all I'll say.

The hell was up with all those MEE topics. Left field

[MTBike]

...well?

That could have gone worse, and I think it went a little bit better than July. That's about all I'll say.

The hell was up with all those MEE topics. Left field

Yeah man. Harder essays the last July imo

[rinkrat19]

...well?

That could have gone worse, and I think it went a little bit better than July. That's about all I'll say.

The hell was up with all those MEE topics. Left field

Yeah man. Harder essays the last July imo

Disagree totally.

[ReachTheBar79]

...well?

That could have gone worse, and I think it went a little bit better than July. That's about all I'll say.

The hell was up with all those MEE topics. Left field

Yeah man. Harder essays the last July imo

Disagree totally.

I had 3 local essays to my state, one MPT which I thought was easy, and 6 MEE's, so 9 esays total plus the MPT. I thought the MEE's were somewhat random. That said, I thought that the last two or three were the easiest. Not sure if everyone gets the same order. Also not sure if some people have the MEE on Thursday. The first essay was so random and was asking too much!

[MTBike]

...well?

That could have gone worse, and I think it went a little bit better than July. That's about all I'll say.

The hell was up with all those MEE topics. Left field

Yeah man. Harder essays the last July imo

Disagree totally.

I had 3 local essays to my state, one MPT which I thought was easy, and 6 MEE's, so 9 esays total plus the MPT. I thought the MEE's were somewhat random. That said, I thought that the last two or three were the easiest. Not sure if everyone gets the same order. Also not sure if some people have the MEE on Thursday. The first essay was so random and was asking too much!

Yeah idk if rinkrat was in a UBE state or not, but the essays on the UBE were somewhat out of left field. There were only 2 MBE subject essays, last July there were 4. The secured trans question required a ton of information, agency and partnerships? Didn't expect that at all.

[Gamecubesupreme]

MBE tomorrow, good luck fellas.

Can't wait to come back on TLS after the exam and see how many people think its the hardest MBE ever.

[jamescastle]

Note to first time MBE takers: You are (Not) Prepared.

[ReachTheBar79]

...well?

That could have gone worse, and I think it went a little bit better than July. That's about all I'll say.

The hell was up with all those MEE topics. Left field

Yeah man. Harder essays the last July imo

Disagree totally.

I had 3 local essays to my state, one MPT which I thought was easy, and 6 MEE's, so 9 esays total plus the MPT. I thought the MEE's were somewhat random. That said, I thought that the last two or three were the easiest. Not sure if everyone gets the same order. Also not sure if some people have the MEE on Thursday. The first essay was so random and was asking too much!

Yeah idk if rinkrat was in a UBE state or not, but the essays on the UBE were somewhat out of left field. There were only 2 MBE subject essays, last July there were 4. The secured trans question required a ton of information, agency and partnerships? Didn't expect that at all.

My state only gives us 30 minutes for each MEE question. How did people finish is what I want to know.

[BVest]

...well?

That could have gone worse, and I think it went a little bit better than July. That's about all I'll say.

The hell was up with all those MEE topics. Left field

Yeah man. Harder essays the last July imo

Disagree totally.

I had 3 local essays to my state, one MPT which I thought was easy, and 6 MEE's, so 9 esays total plus the MPT. I thought the MEE's were somewhat random. That said, I thought that the last two or three were the easiest. Not sure if everyone gets the same order. Also not sure if some people have the MEE on Thursday. The first essay was so random and was asking too much!

Yeah idk if rinkrat was in a UBE state or not, but the essays on the UBE were somewhat out of left field. There were only 2 MBE subject essays, last July there were 4. The secured trans question required a ton of information, agency and partnerships? Didn't expect that at all.

pretty sure rink is in an MEE/local question mixed state.

[lucilledeux]

Did anyone take CT?

[DueProcessDoWheelies]

MBE tomorrow, good luck fellas.

Can't wait to come back on TLS after the exam and see how many people think its the hardest MBE ever.

Yup. Took in July and I still can't believe how hard it seemed. Not looking forward to tomorrow. I'm much more prepared now but still afraid it's going to be a miserable experience.

But I'm convinced that no bar prep program in the universe could have prepared us for what was in July. Some of those questions may as well have been written in hieroglyphics.

[rinkrat19]

I am indeed in a mixed local/MEE state (OR). 6 essays, I think we had 2 state and 4 MEE, although I have instant and near-total forgetfulness of exams so I can't really remember.

Ah, now that I think a little bit, I remember ConLaw, OR Admin, Evidence, Crim, OR Ethics, and Partnership (not in that order). Lol at OR Ethics, which I've never even read and hadn't studied at all. Just making shit up from what I remember from my law school class and the MPRE. God only knows how OR differs from Fed.

2 MPTs. I cannot for the life of me remember what the first one was, except it was an internal law firm memo. 2nd one was letter of demand/internal memo on Torts.

Overall I don't know if everything was easier or harder than July, but the subject selection was definitely better for me, personally. Avoiding CivPro and Property and Corps is just fine with me.

[StaceyS]

For the Uniform Bar Exam, the essay questions were (in this order)

Secured Transactions
Evidence
Limited Liability Partnership
Constitutional Law
Durable Power of Attorney for Healthcare (Agency / Wills)
Family Law


Only 2 were from the big 7. Ugh.

[rinkrat19]

For the Uniform Bar Exam, the essay questions were (in this order)

Secured Transactions
Evidence
Limited Liability Partnership
Constitutional Law
Durable Power of Attorney for Healthcare (Wills?)
Family Law


Only 2 were from the big 7. Ugh.

JFC that's terrible.

[StaceyS]

For the Uniform Bar Exam, the essay questions were (in this order)

Secured Transactions
Evidence
Limited Liability Partnership
Constitutional Law
Durable Power of Attorney for Healthcare (Agency / Wills)
Family Law


Only 2 were from the big 7. Ugh.

JFC that's terrible.

Seriously...it was a nightmare.

[rinkrat19]

Morning of the MBE felt pretty rough to me. What say you all?

[StaceyS]

Morning was horrible. Afternoon much better for me.