MBE Practice Schedule Forum

[doctoroflaw91]

I'm trying to figure out the best way to go about practicing MBE questions. Generally, my goal is to about 35-40 MBE questions, regardless of what Barbri has assigned for the day. My question is this: Is it ok to mix subjects, or should I be sticking to one subject per day? The way that I've been doing it is I've divided up my strong subjects (torts, property, evidence, and civ pro) and my weaker subjects (crim, constitutional law, and contracts). Each day I tackle 20 MBE questions for one of my weaker subjects, and then 10 MBE questions from one strong subject, and another 10 from another strong subject.

Is this a good way to go about practicing? Or should I just be focusing on a single topic each day?

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[blueapple08]

It's completely fine to mix the subjects, as long as you are actively learning the rules and not just mindlessly answering questions. I'm doing the same thing, working on some of my weaker subjects with adaptibar, even though barbri doesn't have those subjects scheduled until 2 weeks from now.

[doctoroflaw91]

Why don't you just do what barbri assigns? Seems that they assign plenty.

Oh totally, they do assign plenty, and I'm on track with my PSP. I don't, however, like the idea of spending all of July memorizing. In law school, I always frontloaded my studying at the beginning and middle of the semester, so that the period before exams were spent reviewing, taking practice exams, and fine-tuning. I found that to be much less stressful, and I performed far better on the exams where I did that. So I'm more or less following the same routine here.

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[blueapple08]

I like adaptibar's structure and performance info so much more than barbri. Feel free to PM me if you decide on getting it and want a $50 discount code.

[doctoroflaw91]

Hmmm. I have been considering getting Adaptibar because I think I can get a supplemental program reimbursed.

I'm a big fan of it. I purchased it after doing a lot of reading on here about Barbri's MBE prep, particularly about how Barbri writes its own MBE questions which are either a lot harder than the actual MBE, or don't follow the same format. I still do the Barbri questions assigned, but when I have extra time and feel up to it, I supplement with Adaptibar.

I would totally go for it, especially if you can get it reimbursed. My firm was willing to pay for it.

[rcharter1978]

I'm trying to figure out the best way to go about practicing MBE questions. Generally, my goal is to about 35-40 MBE questions, regardless of what Barbri has assigned for the day. My question is this: Is it ok to mix subjects, or should I be sticking to one subject per day? The way that I've been doing it is I've divided up my strong subjects (torts, property, evidence, and civ pro) and my weaker subjects (crim, constitutional law, and contracts). Each day I tackle 20 MBE questions for one of my weaker subjects, and then 10 MBE questions from one strong subject, and another 10 from another strong subject.

Is this a good way to go about practicing? Or should I just be focusing on a single topic each day?

Personally, I think at the start of Barbri, I would do practice questions in the subject matter we were currently covering. I always thought that the base knowledge given by the lectures/outlines/notes was further enforced by doing MBE questions in the subject....which also gave you additional knowledge when you reviewed the answers, and then you further cemented that knowledge by doing the essays.

But it also makes sense to mix subjects as you go along too, especially if it feels good for you. Have you gotten through all the subjects at this point? Its about a month and a half before the exam, so you are pretty far along, right?