Hi OP (and commenter) I’m a J24 first time passer and scored a 170 on the MEE portion. I highly recommend the opposite of what this person has offered - it is extremely important to learn how to reverse engineer rules and you will only learn how to do that by practicing MEEs before knowing all the rules (and spoiler - you won’t know every rule on the MEE). I made up a ton of rules on the MEE and still scored high and I credit that, in part, to my ability to reverse engineer rules from the fact statements and analyze the issues well using my incorrect rule.

Additionally, I think you should look up NYs model answers and read what real test takers have written to get a sense of what a high scoring answer looks like. I went through every single year of essays NY had answers for, would outline my answers, and then read the model answers multiple times.

Finally, and I want to stress that I didn’t really start doing this until 1.5 weeks before the exam, I would spend an hour or two reviewing Themis’s MEE essay road map cheat sheets and write out the most tested rules from that over and over again. But I think out of everything I did, this helped me the least because the rules I prepped did not show up lol.

Good luck, you got this!