BarBri Bar Review Hangout - February 2016 Exam Forum

[mtyler19]

I selected the same answer too out of desperation because everything else didn't add up.

My method for most of the afternoon session

[jamescastle]

Had a friend in middle/high school that when he didn't know the answer to a multiple choice question would slam his fingers across the edge of the desk and whichever finger hurt the most would be what he put down.
Made for some interesting test taking with him.

[atcushman]

I don't know about you guys but I don't think barbri did anything to help me on any of this. None of there top secret insight and test tips seemed relevant and I don't think anything else was beneficial enough to justify the cost. I'm not saying that bc I felt like I did poorly I feel like I crushed the mbe but thanks to adaptibar def not Barbris ? and did well enough to pass on the mee because I outlined and read conviser.

[Abbeymubby]

What about the guy who moved out of apartment removing the carpet.

[FinallyPassedTheBar]

What about the guy who moved out of apartment removing the carpet.

ugh that was a hard one for me. I said tenant can't do that.

[atcushman]

What about the guy who moved out of apartment removing the carpet.

ugh that was a hard one for me. I said tenant can't do that.

I knew "a" rule about exp of the lease but couldn't remember if it only applied to commercial leases

[gwuorbust]

I don't know about you guys but I don't think barbri did anything to help me on any of this. None of there top secret insight and test tips seemed relevant and I don't think anything else was beneficial enough to justify the cost. I'm not saying that bc I felt like I did poorly I feel like I crushed the mbe but thanks to adaptibar def not Barbris ? and did well enough to pass on the mee because I outlined and read conviser.

I feel like there was a lot of material on the MBE that simply wasn't in barbri. Not saying the questions were harder than barbri, but if the material isn't in the outline how can I learn it?

Though looking at this and the other thread is driving me crazy. Some Qs I now think I nailed, some are making me wish I hadn't gone online tonight.

[Sue]

What about the guy who moved out of apartment removing the carpet.

ugh that was a hard one for me. I said tenant can't do that.

I knew "a" rule about exp of the lease but couldn't remember if it only applied to commercial leases

I guessed it was about the fixture rule, and said the tenant should remove if before the end of the lease term.

[BrokenMouse]

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[MrMustache]

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

I thought the opposite. AM was fine for me, PM felt much harder

I took it in CA and I thought the morning session was heaven. Then PM happened and I wanted to cry.

Also I had AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA somewhere but I took a deep breath knowing July 2015 had similar pattern

Maybe it depends on the version or something, but I had a row of BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB thet was starting to freak me out.

[Abbeymubby]

Yes PM was brutal for me too. I also had a line of about 7 As following each other on the PM and that got me thinking what the hell is going on.

[law732]

Yes PM was brutal for me too. I also had a line of about 7 As following each other on the PM and that got me thinking what the hell is going on.

Also had a bunch of A's in the PM...

[BrokenMouse]

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[Abbeymubby]

Almost similar fact pattern on the MEE yesterday rrharding a cop testifying as to a witnesses statement during interview

[Diceman102]

I don't know about you guys but I don't think barbri did anything to help me on any of this. None of there top secret insight and test tips seemed relevant and I don't think anything else was beneficial enough to justify the cost. I'm not saying that bc I felt like I did poorly I feel like I crushed the mbe but thanks to adaptibar def not Barbris ? and did well enough to pass on the mee because I outlined and read conviser.

I feel like there was a lot of material on the MBE that simply wasn't in barbri. Not saying the questions were harder than barbri, but if the material isn't in the outline how can I learn it?

Though looking at this and the other thread is driving me crazy. Some Qs I now think I nailed, some are making me wish I hadn't gone online tonight.

I learned this quickly last year that Barbri makes up so many question in really nuanced and obscure area of law that not even NCBE tests. I felt totally unprepared for the July 2015 MBE. This time I never even opened the Barbri MBE book nor ever did their homework.

So I purchased the Emanuel MBE Strategy book and did some Kaplan MBE. Emanuel book saved my life. I actually recognized most of the questions in the AM exam to my giant surprise. Also the NCBE mofos used the same question word by word from a previous exam. Cops using radar is always a hearsay if cop doesn't have personal knowledge and he is just reading shit on the screen.

i don't think testifying about what the radar gun said is hearsay, given that the radar gun wan't an out of court human declarant. it would be admissible as non-hearsay evidence as to the speed.

[BrokenMouse]

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[MrMustache]

Noob Question: Is this a sale of goods K or a services K?

A rich guy makes a written contract with a shipbuilder to build a ship for $2 million. Building this boat will take about a year. The ship is going to be quite luxurious.

I think a boat qualifies as goods no? But then again is it for the service of building a boat?

All or nothing rule. You'd need to analyze what the most important part of the contract was. Why were they entering into contract? To build the boat, or to have it sold? From your example, I think it's building the boat, so I'd say service contract.

[BrokenMouse]

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[StaceyS]

editing out other people's quotes...

[BVest]

Also the NCBE mofos used the same question word by word from a previous exam. Cops using radar is always a hearsay if cop doesn't have personal knowledge and he is just reading shit on the screen.

Sprinkling in the same questions from a previous exam (specifically from the last two exams) is how they normalize from one exam to another. They take the performance on those questions and compare it to the performance when the questions were originally asked and that's how they determine if the overall scaled scores on this exam will be higher or lower than previous exams.

[Gamecubesupreme]

Also the NCBE mofos used the same question word by word from a previous exam. Cops using radar is always a hearsay if cop doesn't have personal knowledge and he is just reading shit on the screen.

Sprinkling in the same questions from a previous exam (specifically from the last two exams) is how they normalize from one exam to another. They take the performance on those questions and compare it to the performance when the questions were originally asked and that's how they determine if the overall scaled scores on this exam will be higher or lower than previous exams.

Does that mean those questions are considered "experimental" too?

[BVest]

Also the NCBE mofos used the same question word by word from a previous exam. Cops using radar is always a hearsay if cop doesn't have personal knowledge and he is just reading shit on the screen.

Sprinkling in the same questions from a previous exam (specifically from the last two exams) is how they normalize from one exam to another. They take the performance on those questions and compare it to the performance when the questions were originally asked and that's how they determine if the overall scaled scores on this exam will be higher or lower than previous exams.

Does that mean those questions are considered "experimental" too?

I don't know. Though, without reading the article, this article would imply that they are actually scored questions, considering NCBE is concerned that they may affect the scores of retakers.

[bball700]

If I failed that shit - fuck Barbri. I was top of my class at a T-20. I studied my ASS off, did every available Barbri question and those questions were NOTHING like Barbri. I went like 20+ in a row not knowing one for sure on PM.

[ladylawyer1221]

If I failed that shit - fuck Barbri. I was top of my class at a T-20. I studied my ASS off, did every available Barbri question and those questions were NOTHING like Barbri. I went like 20+ in a row not knowing one for sure on PM.

Try not to worry about it (I know, easier said than done). I studied my ass off last July, and walked out of the MBE feeling like I had studied for the wrong exam all summer. I got a 118 on the simulated MBE, but somehow got a 152.5 on the real thing. I didn't think the real questions felt anything like Barbri questions, and had to guess randomly between 2 answers.

[THE_U]

Yes PM was brutal for me too. I also had a line of about 7 As following each other on the PM and that got me thinking what the hell is going on.

Also had a bunch of A's in the PM...

I had a bunch in the AM.