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by stephcurry30 » Tue May 01, 2018 2:04 pm
Hi,
I took the CABX (July '17) and the NYBX (Feb '18) and passed both of them while using Barbri and Adaptibar. I found out about Adaptibar pretty late in the game for the CABX (like 3 weeks before the exam). In contrast, I used Adaptibar from the start of my bar prep for the NYBX. I don't know how I did on the MBE portion of the CABX because you don't get your score if you pass in CA, however, I got a 153 MBE for the NYBX.
Personally, I felt Adaptibar was worth it for a few reasons:
1) Adaptibar has a well-made app for your mobile device that allows you to do bar prep when you are away from your Barbri materials/computer. I often used the app when I was in transit, or burnt out from listening to lectures/doing essays and it kept me productive when I would otherwise not be.
2) Adaptibar (for the most part) is made up of real bar questions whereas Barbri and many of the other bar prep courses have only simulated bar questions. I didn't realize this almost until the final few weeks before taking the CABX. After doing a lot of Barbri questions, my Barbri MBE scores were very high (80% for most subjects) for the CABX but when I started to do Adaptibar questions the last few weeks before the exam, I was scoring lower than my Barbri averages. If you do enough questions for Barbri and Adaptibar, you start to realize that the questions are worded differently, and sometimes emphasize different things for the same topics (e.g. negligence).
3) Adaptibar records the questions you got wrong and even breaks down your performance in the various subsets of the MBE topics down (e.g. Civil Procedure - Jurisdiction and Venue (60%), Joinder/Multiple Parties (70%), Preclusion (100%)).
4) Unlike Barbri, which only gives you mixed MBE sets towards the end of the program, you can immediately begin mixing the MBE questions. So, assuming this is your first time studying for a bar exam, if you just finished listening to the Torts and Civ Pro videos for Barbri, and want to do mixed Torts and Civ Pro questions, you can immediately click those subjects on Adaptibar and do mixed sets for these two subjects and keep adding once you finish your respective Barbri lecture.
Now, take everything I said above with a grain of salt. I totally agree that Adaptibar is very expensive, especially if you are paying for Barbri with your own money. Secondly, I would advise against Adaptibar if you are planning on following the Barbri program exactly as is (because you will never be able to finish it 100% while doing enough Adaptibar questions to justify the price). The best way to use Adaptibar is by supplementing, and sometimes replacing Barbri MBE questions.
I hope this helps!
