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Florida Bar Exam - Official Thread
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*Test Takers: Please keep adding content to this thread over time so we can consolidate all our Florida info and not have to go searching through TLS. Do it for future test takers. Reading all the pages in this thread and other Barbri/Themis threads can only help increase your knowledge.
**You can still search through this thread via TLS as well, but also jump through the thread by page if you're looking for certain dates, i.e. reactions to the July 15' bar exam would be in August 15'.
***If you have taken the Bar Exam, please return to this thread to help others.
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Ya she was absolutely awful. I am thinking about grabbing adaptibar along with Kaplan because I am worried Kaplans MBE questions aren't that great. Thoughts?InRemington wrote:I'm using Kaplan....I'm working full time but will take a few weeks off mid July. I also started early......so far so good but the Family law professor from FIU sucks; Civ Pro dude from FSU was ok. So far so good.
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I took FL this past February, used Themis and supplemented with Kaplan red book, it was my saving grace. I went through more than half the questions in the book. Get adaptibar if you really feel like you need the extra cushion, but if you are a somewhat ok at multiple choice, the Kaplan ones should be sufficient to prepare you.
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LAW813FL wrote:Sweet thanks for the heads up...How do you feel the Kaplan MBE's compared with the actual bar MBE's? Same with Florida MCQ's if you did those too..
The actual MBE questions were generally much shorter in length than the Kaplan ones, especially property. As far as difficulty is concerned, it's really hard for me to say with certainty that either was more difficult than the other, the anxiety associated with the actual test day can really skew one's perception. That being said, I found that the more I practiced, the better I got at spotting the right the answer and/or eliminating the incorrect choices, so over the 2 and 1/2 mo.'s I studied, I got better at making informed "guesses" to questions I didn't know the answer to, so if the actual MBE's were more difficult than practice, it was not glaringly obvious to me because I had done so many practice questions and just got better at answering them. I also made it a point to read the explanations to the answers to all the questions, whether or not I got it wrong, and the explanations in the Kaplan red book were extremely helpful to me.
For FL MC, I did all of the Themis provided questions and all of the ones in the Kaplan book (did not have access to the online ones). FL MC was a total crap shoot either way though. The questions were very detailed and I did not feel at all prepared for it, despite doing a lot of practice. I know that the bar prep companies do not place a lot of emphasis on the state MC's, but don't under estimate its importance. Do all the questions you can get your hands on if time permits. Focus a lot on FL procedure (FL Civ and Crim pro) since you know it will be on the MC part.
For the essays, which were my bread and butter, I read (and sometimes re-read) every question and model answer for the past 10 years, and pretty much memorized the rules from the model answers. I outlined most of them, and wrote out about 10 or 12 just to get the timing part down.
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On a more positive note, CriticalPass flashcards are proving their worth already. Highly recommend.
ETA: & Chris Fromm is the jam.
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Just awful.
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ETA: Found the Feb 15' essays: https://www.floridabarexam.org/__85257b ... 0c00756f05
I'll probably break it down at some point.
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From looking at past essays, ethics is never its own essay, just a minor subtopic like an attorneys fee issue or one rep. issue weaved into a more substantial topic. Any guess will be as good as the next one as to what will be on July. What I am hoping for is just your basic torts and contracts questions. I hope there is not anything involving florida Con. Law or commercial paper.Geaux12 wrote:Let's talk essay topics. Adjusting Kaplan's tool to look at the past ten examinations, it looks like we're more or less guaranteed a PR question, while "FL Distinctions" as an independent category is becoming less frequent relative to the individual substantive topics. Do we know what the Feb. 15' essays were?
ETA: Found the Feb 15' essays: https://www.floridabarexam.org/__85257b ... 0c00756f05
I'll probably break it down at some point.
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Trust
Contracts
Ethics
UCC
Fl Con Law
Torts
I think we avoid:
Property and Family
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Fl Crim Pro
Fl Civ Pro
Business Entities
Evidence
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