Top Law Schools

Taking the bar exam in about a week in a jurisdiction where the MEE and MPT together account for 50% of one's score. Using Barbri and Emannuel's Strategies and Tactics for prep.

Foolishly, I prepared really hard for the MBE and neglected the MEE portion of the test. My reasoning was that I was always pretty good at essays in law school and was better off shoring up my weakness in multiple choice.

I've worked at least 3 essays for each MBE topic that can also appear on the MEE (contracts, torts, etc). For each of these topics I wrote out at least 1 essay and outlined at least 1-2 more. I have also worked 2 essays each for family law and agency/partnership.

Biggest problem is that I haven't done anything for 5 MEE topics (though I took most of them in law school):

Corporations
Wills
Trusts
Secured Transactions
Conflict of Laws (only one i didn't take in law school)

Feeling okay about the MBE portion of the test, but planning to spend at least a few hours every day drilling/reviewing more questions. I got a 152 raw score on the S&T practice test and have been getting about 75% right on barbri/S&T materials. Need a 132 scaled MBE score to pass in my jurisdiction.

What should be my strategy for the next 6 days? How hard should I focus on learning the remaining MEE topics v. improving my MBE score? Thanks for any advice.

I'm in a similar boat, but not quite as far behind on the MEE topics, since I've done at least one essay for each. The good news is that there's a lot of overlap in the rules for fiduciary duties between corporations/agency/partnerships, and these seem to be pretty heavily tested, so I'd focus on that as a start.

Conflict of laws doesn't seem to be too heavily tested, so TBH I'm skipping it.

Secured Transactions doesn't seem terribly hard, because for virtually any question, you' can analyze 1) is there a security interest 2) is it perfected 3) what are the priorities between parties? So as long as you know the rules for that, that should provide some points.

Milk Tea wrote:Biggest problem is that I haven't done anything for 5 MEE topics (though I took most of them in law school):

I got a 152 raw score on the S&T practice test and have been getting about 75% right on barbri/S&T materials. Need a 132 scaled MBE score to pass in my jurisdiction.

What should be my strategy for the next 6 days? How hard should I focus on learning the remaining MEE topics v. improving my MBE score? Thanks for any advice.

When you say you "haven't done anything for 5 MEE topics," does that mean you haven't done any studying for MEE topics, or does that mean you've studied the MEE topics but haven't written any essays?

BeeTeeZ wrote:

Milk Tea wrote:Biggest problem is that I haven't done anything for 5 MEE topics (though I took most of them in law school):

I got a 152 raw score on the S&T practice test and have been getting about 75% right on barbri/S&T materials. Need a 132 scaled MBE score to pass in my jurisdiction.

What should be my strategy for the next 6 days? How hard should I focus on learning the remaining MEE topics v. improving my MBE score? Thanks for any advice.

When you say you "haven't done anything for 5 MEE topics," does that mean you haven't done any studying for MEE topics, or does that mean you've studied the MEE topics but haven't written any essays?

I haven't studied them at all during bar prep. Do you think watching the Barbri lecture, reviewing the lecture notes, and then writing out 3 practice essays for each topic is enough to reach competency?

I recommend looking at JD advising's MEE guide to understand the highly tested topics and also review the essays they list so you have a good understanding of how those issues come up.

https://www.jdadvising.com/corporations ... -and-tips/

Milk Tea wrote:

BeeTeeZ wrote:

Milk Tea wrote:Biggest problem is that I haven't done anything for 5 MEE topics (though I took most of them in law school):

I got a 152 raw score on the S&T practice test and have been getting about 75% right on barbri/S&T materials. Need a 132 scaled MBE score to pass in my jurisdiction.

What should be my strategy for the next 6 days? How hard should I focus on learning the remaining MEE topics v. improving my MBE score? Thanks for any advice.

When you say you "haven't done anything for 5 MEE topics," does that mean you haven't done any studying for MEE topics, or does that mean you've studied the MEE topics but haven't written any essays?

I haven't studied them at all during bar prep. Do you think watching the Barbri lecture, reviewing the lecture notes, and then writing out 3 practice essays for each topic is enough to reach competency?

I think that's doable. Your MBE raw score puts you well over the passing mark, so I wouldn't spend anymore time on those subjects. You can learn the MEE subjects in 5 days if you focus on the lectures and drill the black letter law on scratch paper.

Thanks all. I checked out the JD advising site and have been generally following the advice in this thread.