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longtimelurker123 wrote:Failed NY bar in July due to a computer crash leaving me with zero points on an essay. I had 160 scaled MBE score.

Sucked it up and transferred my MBE to DC where I am 1st year v30 associate. Only took 1.5 weeks off to study.

I needed a 133 scaled on MEE.

I feel like i failed.

Completely caught off guard by two essays (dormant commerce clause and power of attorney). Forgot the rules entirely and just made some stuff up.

Feel okay but not great about the other 4 essays. My 2 MPTs had good structure but I left out a lot of relevant facts due to time constraints.

longtimelurker123 wrote:Failed NY bar in July due to a computer crash leaving me with zero points on an essay. I had 160 scaled MBE score.

nyfailedjuly2015 wrote:

longtimelurker123 wrote:Failed NY bar in July due to a computer crash leaving me with zero points on an essay. I had 160 scaled MBE score.

I don't know anything about the DC bar, but let me just say that they fucking robbed you and they should not have let you fail because of that.

longtimelurker123 wrote:Failed NY bar in July due to a computer crash leaving me with zero points on an essay. I had 160 scaled MBE score.

Sucked it up and transferred my MBE to DC where I am 1st year v30 associate. Only took 1.5 weeks off to study.

I needed a 133 scaled on MEE.

I feel like i failed.

Completely caught off guard by two essays (dormant commerce clause and power of attorney). Forgot the rules entirely and just made some stuff up.

Feel okay but not great about the other 4 essays. My 2 MPTs had good structure but I left out a lot of relevant facts due to time constraints.

Kalani111 wrote:

longtimelurker123 wrote:Failed NY bar in July due to a computer crash leaving me with zero points on an essay. I had 160 scaled MBE score.

Sucked it up and transferred my MBE to DC where I am 1st year v30 associate. Only took 1.5 weeks off to study.

I needed a 133 scaled on MEE.

I feel like i failed.

Completely caught off guard by two essays (dormant commerce clause and power of attorney). Forgot the rules entirely and just made some stuff up.

Feel okay but not great about the other 4 essays. My 2 MPTs had good structure but I left out a lot of relevant facts due to time constraints.

Pulling it off in the clutch

160 MBE is impressive. You da man or woman.

fearless16 wrote:Congratulations!!!!! This gives me a little, teeny, tiny bit of hope!

longtimelurker123 wrote:Attually, it doesn't matter that I had a 160 the first time, only that I got above 133. Because of the the way DC is set up, if you waive your MBE, all MBE scores count as only 133 after waiving. So 160, 190, and 133 all count as 133.

That's why I was so nervous about failing, I still had to get a 133 on the essays (to get a 266 total) - regardless of how high my waived MBE was.

Kalani111 wrote:

longtimelurker123 wrote:Failed NY bar in July due to a computer crash leaving me with zero points on an essay. I had 160 scaled MBE score.

Sucked it up and transferred my MBE to DC where I am 1st year v30 associate. Only took 1.5 weeks off to study.

I needed a 133 scaled on MEE.

I feel like i failed.

Completely caught off guard by two essays (dormant commerce clause and power of attorney). Forgot the rules entirely and just made some stuff up.

Feel okay but not great about the other 4 essays. My 2 MPTs had good structure but I left out a lot of relevant facts due to time constraints.

Pulling it off in the clutch

160 MBE is impressive. You da man or woman.

Thanks! I appreciate it!!!

fearless16 wrote:Congratulations!!!!! This gives me a little, teeny, tiny bit of hope!

From the way you described it in your past post, I think things are looking good for you (knock on wood*)!

refinedwarrior wrote:

longtimelurker123 wrote:Attually, it doesn't matter that I had a 160 the first time, only that I got above 133. Because of the the way DC is set up, if you waive your MBE, all MBE scores count as only 133 after waiving. So 160, 190, and 133 all count as 133.

That's why I was so nervous about failing, I still had to get a 133 on the essays (to get a 266 total) - regardless of how high my waived MBE was.

Kalani111 wrote:

longtimelurker123 wrote:Failed NY bar in July due to a computer crash leaving me with zero points on an essay. I had 160 scaled MBE score.

Sucked it up and transferred my MBE to DC where I am 1st year v30 associate. Only took 1.5 weeks off to study.

I needed a 133 scaled on MEE.

I feel like i failed.

Completely caught off guard by two essays (dormant commerce clause and power of attorney). Forgot the rules entirely and just made some stuff up.

Feel okay but not great about the other 4 essays. My 2 MPTs had good structure but I left out a lot of relevant facts due to time constraints.

Pulling it off in the clutch

160 MBE is impressive. You da man or woman.

Thanks! I appreciate it!!!

fearless16 wrote:Congratulations!!!!! This gives me a little, teeny, tiny bit of hope!

From the way you described it in your past post, I think things are looking good for you (knock on wood*)!

I never knew that about the way the score transfers. That sucks. So my score only counts as a 133 even though it's higher? ugh.

refinedwarrior wrote:I am taking the July essay exam because I was able to transfer my MBE from VA. With a combination of factors including treatment for health and work/commuting 150 mi day, I have not bee able to give much time to studying. I can give much more starting from today. Should I give up or will I be able to possibly get myself prepared for the DC essay exam in July given I have June and much of July? Study tips? Resources used that are free?

longtimelurker123 wrote:

refinedwarrior wrote:I am taking the July essay exam because I was able to transfer my MBE from VA. With a combination of factors including treatment for health and work/commuting 150 mi day, I have not bee able to give much time to studying. I can give much more starting from today. Should I give up or will I be able to possibly get myself prepared for the DC essay exam in July given I have June and much of July? Study tips? Resources used that are free?

Totally possible. I counted 70 total hours of studying as the total amount that I studied for the DC essay.

refinedwarrior wrote:

longtimelurker123 wrote:

refinedwarrior wrote:I am taking the July essay exam because I was able to transfer my MBE from VA. With a combination of factors including treatment for health and work/commuting 150 mi day, I have not bee able to give much time to studying. I can give much more starting from today. Should I give up or will I be able to possibly get myself prepared for the DC essay exam in July given I have June and much of July? Study tips? Resources used that are free?

Totally possible. I counted 70 total hours of studying as the total amount that I studied for the DC essay.

Omg thanks so much!!! SO much! Feeling better now. How did you prepare and what did you put more time into - MEE or MPT?

longtimelurker123 wrote:

refinedwarrior wrote:

longtimelurker123 wrote:

refinedwarrior wrote:I am taking the July essay exam because I was able to transfer my MBE from VA. With a combination of factors including treatment for health and work/commuting 150 mi day, I have not bee able to give much time to studying. I can give much more starting from today. Should I give up or will I be able to possibly get myself prepared for the DC essay exam in July given I have June and much of July? Study tips? Resources used that are free?

Totally possible. I counted 70 total hours of studying as the total amount that I studied for the DC essay.

Omg thanks so much!!! SO much! Feeling better now. How did you prepare and what did you put more time into - MEE or MPT?

Sorry for the very late response. I'm not really responding to you at this point (since I'm guessing you took the exam already) but just in case any passer-byers come across this: I did nothing but use an old Themis outline and take practice exams.

I barely studied MPT. all I did was outline 1 MPT (which took 30 minutes). the other 69.5 hours was devoted to practice exams and trying to memorize old themis outlines.