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July 2016 New Jersey Bar Exam

Post by FallonJ » Sun Jul 31, 2016 12:54 am

What did you guys think about the NJ essays? I ran out of time during Civ Pro and Contracts.. bummer! I thought that Torts, Crim and Property were good. Evidence and Con Law were okay.

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Re: July 2016 New Jersey Bar Exam

Post by L_William_W » Mon Aug 01, 2016 10:45 pm

I took the NJ Bar in February 2015 (failed) and July 2015 (passed). Jersey is very liberal in regards to grading. Even if you give the incorrect definition for a rule, you'll get credit if you apply it correctly. In February, I missed half of the issues in the torts essay and still got a 5. IMO, this is the level of difficulty for the NJ essays (easiest at the top):

Torts
Crim
Evidence
Con Law
Civ Pro
Contracts
Property

Con law is somewhat inconsistent. The February 2015 con law fact pattern was ridiculously difficult. The July fact pattern was fairly easy. The others are basically constant. Property is the bane of my existence (both MBE's and essays).

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Re: July 2016 New Jersey Bar Exam

Post by Genius » Thu Aug 04, 2016 11:21 am

FallonJ wrote:What did you guys think about the NJ essays? I ran out of time during Civ Pro and Contracts.. bummer! I thought that Torts, Crim and Property were good. Evidence and Con Law were okay.
Honestly i think we have it easier than other jurisdictions. I think we should be fine if we studied.

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Re: July 2016 New Jersey Bar Exam

Post by Jobsies » Sun Aug 07, 2016 5:29 pm

I totally messed up the evidence question and did it as a contract question. Think i still have a chance of passing??

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Re: July 2016 New Jersey Bar Exam

Post by L_William_W » Sun Aug 07, 2016 10:00 pm

If you got 5's on your other essays and your MBE was in the mid-130's or higher then you'll probably pass.

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Re: July 2016 New Jersey Bar Exam

Post by resipsajob » Mon Aug 08, 2016 10:07 am

I've been kicking myself the last couple of weeks over having missed a very obvious trespass to chattels crossclaim.

Hoping these essay graders truly are lenient!

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Re: July 2016 New Jersey Bar Exam

Post by Fivedham » Tue Oct 11, 2016 7:19 pm

Can't find the grading standards for NJ in the pre-UBE system anywhere on their site. My scaled MBE was a 167 in PA, so I should be good in NJ, right?

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Re: July 2016 New Jersey Bar Exam

Post by transferror » Tue Oct 11, 2016 7:29 pm

Fivedham wrote:Can't find the grading standards for NJ in the pre-UBE system anywhere on their site. My scaled MBE was a 167 in PA, so I should be good in NJ, right?
You could have typed random quasi-legal words, in no particular order, and you will pass with that MBE score.

But seriously, it's almost impossible to fail with anything over 150 on the MBE. The MBE was 45% of PA and is 50% of NJ, with otherwise similar grading systems, and no one with a 148+ on the MBE failed the PA Bar in the last 3 administrations of the exam.

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Re: July 2016 New Jersey Bar Exam

Post by Easy-E » Thu Oct 13, 2016 2:02 pm

The NJ bar application is the worst

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Re: July 2016 New Jersey Bar Exam

Post by hockeyman969 » Thu Oct 13, 2016 2:49 pm

Easy-E wrote:The NJ bar application is the worst
I used to think that until I saw Florida wanted a certified copy of my birth certificate!

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Re: July 2016 New Jersey Bar Exam

Post by blergasaurus » Thu Oct 13, 2016 6:08 pm

for those of you following this thread, someone made a post about results coming out tomorrow. definitely just wasted my time creating an account as a long time lurker just to tell you guys about it only to discover someone else made the same post :?

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Re: July 2016 New Jersey Bar Exam

Post by Easy-E » Tue Oct 18, 2016 4:30 pm

Just saw an FB post, appears results are out. Lucky bastards.

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