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I would study for a week.ZyzzBrah wrote:Anyone taking the MPRE coming up on the 29th?
Or have any advice on how long is too long to study (I've heard that the answer is essentially "don't study much"? Good luck to everyone taking it!
This is probably overkill. But probably also the approach you should take if you would like to be safe rather than sorry. IMO two solid days of studying right before the test is more than sufficient to pass.sparty99 wrote:I would study for a week.ZyzzBrah wrote:Anyone taking the MPRE coming up on the 29th?
Or have any advice on how long is too long to study (I've heard that the answer is essentially "don't study much"? Good luck to everyone taking it!
sparty99 wrote:What is the approximate percentage of questions that you have to get right to pass? I know it varies by state. But ballpark.
32-38 questions, not percent. Though technically you could get 28 out of 60 and pass in some jurisdictions (assuming 10 of the questions you miss are the experimental questions), you'll want to be comfortably over 50% accuracy, preferably at least 60% for most jurisdictions...dreakol wrote:sparty99 wrote:What is the approximate percentage of questions that you have to get right to pass? I know it varies by state. But ballpark.
i think i read 32-38 somewhere
[/quote]krishna_das wrote:I found more up-to-date data on the raw score one might need to achieve a passing scaled score in his or her jurisdiction.
Per Susan M. Case, PhD (Director of Testing for the National Conference of Bar Examiners) in a March 2011 column entitled "Common Goals with Increasingly Similar Outcomes: Jurisdiction Approaches to Bar Exam Grading, Scoring, and Standards":
Source: http://www.ncbex.org/assets/media_files ... Column.pdf (See p. 3 "MPRE Passing Standard")While there is some variability from one administration to the next, a score of 100 reflects a performance of approximately 68 percent correct. The current standards used by jurisdictions reflect lower performance levels: 85 is approximately 60 percent correct; 80 is approximately 58 percent correct; 75 is approximately 56 percent correct. The difference between an 85 and an 86, for example, is less than one question.
Raw | Scaled Score Conversion according to NCBEX's Director of Testing is approximately:
56% Raw (28/50) = 75 Scaled
58% Raw (29/50) = 80 Scaled
60% Raw (30/50) = 85 Scaled
68% Raw (34/50) = 100 Scaled
*I guess that's why Barbri recommends the 32-38 range to be safe because it probably puts a test taker above the scaled score of 86--the most any jurisdiction requires. I broke down the raw numbers out of 50 since 10 of the questions on the MPRE are experimental.
For those of us who studied with MPRE practice exams, this might give us an idea of how our raw percentages convert to scaled scores (approximately, at least). I hope this helps.
Review your wrong answers on Barbri and then go out. I was scoring about the same on Barbri and passed by a very comfortable margin.OfThriceandTen wrote:i just got a 40% on themis (30q test) and 71% on barbri (60q test, where the questions were about four-thousand percent more decipherable). someone tell me that themis is ttt and i'm gonna pass and can stop studying so i can go out tonight pls.
Couldn't answer that myself. I signed up a couple of weeks ago and paid $10 to ship a book to me. I think that, or getting one from your BarBri rep is the only way.Tanicius wrote:The Themis questions are fucking outrageously hard. How can I access the BarBri questions if I'm not signed up for their bar prep course?
The questions do, indeed, appear to be on very odd exceptions that weren't mentioned in the lecture. So you're not alone--i did tests 1 and 2 and was getting like 15-18 wrong, which was like a 70%bouakedojo wrote:Does anyone else think that the BarBri questions are harder than the actual MPRE questions from the website?
Please say yes because my future is banking on this....
yea i signed up for barbri for free and got immediate access to lecture + exams.skw wrote:I took the MPRE last year, but back then I was able to register online for both Kaplan and BarBri for free to access their e-courses.
holy shit the ones on the mpre site are easy. ok. glad to see that after i spent my night watching college bball at a friend's.bouakedojo wrote:Does anyone else think that the BarBri questions are harder than the actual MPRE questions from the website?
Please say yes because my future is banking on this....
Thumbs up on that one.DildaMan wrote:Do the practice tests in the BarBri book and you should be fine (~8 hours).