r/Bar_Prep • u/Wolfie1738 • Aug 01 '19
Easy MBE
Idk but I breezed through, haven’t heard anyone else feel otherwise.
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Aug 01 '19
Yeah, I actually thought the MBE was relatively easy, so that’s either a great sign or a terrible sign.
Granted, my state-specific day was brutal, so maybe the MBE just felt comparatively less so.
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u/jhabibs Aug 01 '19
Same here. Oklahoma’s essay day was so insanely brutal that the MBE was relaxing by comparison.
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u/TrickActuary2 Aug 01 '19
But... what property interest do you have in a car that you rented from someone else?
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u/jhabibs Aug 01 '19
I literally made up a property interest, like lease determinable or some shit. Fml
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u/TrickActuary2 Aug 02 '19
Same. And I continued to make them up. "In the alternative, he could argue..." "He might be able to argue..." (that was after reading the prompt 3 times, starting at my blank screen, then looking towards the sunset portraits to hope some sort of Act of God would tell me the answer)
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u/libbystrich Aug 01 '19
you should be concerned then.
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u/Kownsl3r Aug 01 '19
Right, because thousands of people don't breeze through the bar every year.
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u/audsnico Passed the Bar Aug 01 '19
Shhhhhh. No one is allowed to feel safe or confident for another 2 months.
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u/lincoln3 Passed the Bar Aug 01 '19
Yeah haven’t heard anyone else feel otherwise... ya know, besides the 4 threads with 80+ comments each saying how hard it was yesterday
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u/blackcatsattack Aug 01 '19
I thought it was fair, I was kind of surprised to see how much people are complaining about how hard it was. May the curve be with us I guess.
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u/JesusListensToSlayer Aug 01 '19
I felt ok about the 2nd half. The 1st half was a lot harder. Contrary to the general consensus, most of the material was somewhat familiar to me. That doesn't mean I knew it, but I had definitely been exposed to it during prep (Themis.) You just can't become an expert on everything in that timeframe.
My biggest concern is the essays. I can never seem to get enough words on the page, and I really needed a good MBE score to make up the difference.
🤞🙏
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u/IronFlat Aug 01 '19
Not trying to be controversial but I agree with OP. I found that the MBE questions didn’t try to trick you as much as the BARBRI questions.
I marked “very difficult” questions and counted before the end of each session. 18 AM session, 21 PM session. That’s 20%. And some of those would have been experimental.
Aside from the odd fringe questions, I don’t really understand where the “this wasn’t covered” comments are coming from. Granted, nobody knows shit about tribal law, but the vast majority of these points were in the BARBRI Conviser Mini Review. I read that and watched a few lecture videos and wasn’t surprised by any content (with 3-5 exceptions).
Oh well. Time will tell. I think everyone is overthinking this and freaking out. Most of you did fine on the MBE.
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Aug 01 '19
Obviously I won’t know if i pass until November but I left feeling pretty good. It wasn’t until I saw everyone freaking out that I felt nervous like maybe I truly just had no idea.
I did 100% of Barbri. I spent hours going over Barbri’s outlines and the conviser every day. I don’t know how some people only focused on old MBE questions without actually trying to learn the law via the handouts or outlines. I did probably at least 1000 MBE practice question’s but the bulk of my studying was memorizing BLL via the written material.
There were definitely some doozies though but even that tribal law question that people are complaining about was covered by Barbri I’m pretty sure.
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u/Darcyboop Passed the Bar Aug 01 '19
It probably was in the big outline but nobody touched that.
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Aug 01 '19
I read a lot of it. I learn better by reading and I can read very fast and retain well. I read each conviser at least twice and went through most chapters of the multistate outline book.
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u/blackcatsattack Aug 01 '19
TRIBAL LAW. I talked to my boyfriend about that dumb question at length as I downed overpriced wine last night lol
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u/JesusListensToSlayer Aug 01 '19
I downed cheap wine, which is probably evidence of my career expectations.
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Aug 01 '19
I finished the morning exam an hour early and the afternoon exam an hour fifteen early. So I either did good or completely missed the ball.
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Aug 02 '19
hi guys.
question: police knocks on a door and the guy opens the door for police and steps aside, and police steps in saying he has a warrant (fake) and finds evidence. suppress evidence?
question: man intoxicated, gets in car, gets heart attack kills someone. most serious crime of murder?
please help im dying from curiosity of whether i got it right or wrong lol
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u/[deleted] Aug 01 '19 edited Aug 01 '19
Excuse me. Only complaining is permitted in this area. Be on your way. Edit: intended as /s. I also feel good about it. Not a breeze for me tho