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Any advice on the best way to study? Do you suggest taking a course or just trying to study the MPEP on your own?

engineer2law wrote:Any advice on the best way to study? Do you suggest taking a course or just trying to study the MPEP on your own?

I picked up an older version (2012) of the PLI course... Studied that and filled in for the changes in the AIA. I also did practice questions... A lot of practice questions. You will see at least 5-6 word for word repeats on the exam if you do enough practice questions.

Good luck!

NY_Sea wrote:

engineer2law wrote:Any advice on the best way to study? Do you suggest taking a course or just trying to study the MPEP on your own?

I picked up an older version (2012) of the PLI course... Studied that and filled in for the changes in the AIA. I also did practice questions... A lot of practice questions. You will see at least 5-6 word for word repeats on the exam if you do enough practice questions.

Good luck!

Agreed. Self-studied with Wysebridge, which is a low quality program, but probably good enough to get through. The key is to do a ton of questions so that you can recognize the repeats on the test, know the right answer right away, and quickly move on to the next question.

dat209 wrote:

NY_Sea wrote:

engineer2law wrote:Any advice on the best way to study? Do you suggest taking a course or just trying to study the MPEP on your own?

I picked up an older version (2012) of the PLI course... Studied that and filled in for the changes in the AIA. I also did practice questions... A lot of practice questions. You will see at least 5-6 word for word repeats on the exam if you do enough practice questions.

Good luck!

Agreed. Self-studied with Wysebridge, which is a low quality program, but probably good enough to get through. The key is to do a ton of questions so that you can recognize the repeats on the test, know the right answer right away, and quickly move on to the next question.

Mypatentbar.com has a bunch of old exams (both the AM and PM session) that I went through over and over and over again until I got 50/50 on almost all of them... Really does two things: 1) Shows you what they like to test on (appeals timeline after final rejection, how to get around 102/103 rejections, etc.) and 2) Actually reinforces the law for you if you read the explanations, cause everyone knows how dull reading MPEP sections is.

As far as I know, there's different versions of Wysebridge and a lot of it is actually copied from the outlines that are on Mypatentbar, except they updated them slightly to take the AIA into account. I wouldn't go much further than their bottom tiered price point. Check Mypatentbar, but take with a grain of salt that the site hasn't been crazy populated in the past few years, so it might not be fully up to date on AIA material.

Try to prepare and do old exams. I have some notes and materials that I prepared. If you fail at once, ask for review sessions ($195) from prometric b/c it is definitely helpful.