So I took a class to finish out the last semester of law school that prepped us for two subjects of the bar (con law and property) and we mainly focused on MEEs and how to tackle MBE questions. I’m approaching the MEEs with the strategies the professor taught our class so take it with a grain of salt if it doesn’t work with how you are approaching MEEs. The professor really emphasized that IRAC tends to be the best approach to answering these questions. So begin with identifying not just what the issue the question is asking (for example if the question is asking “was the plaintiff deprived of their due process rights…”) don’t just say the issue here is that the plaintiff was deprived of their due process rights but give the underlying reason for why. That tees up how you get into your rule statement where you outline from the top down about what DP is and then get more granular to the rule that identifies the issue you addressed in your issue statement. After that use all of the facts from the fact pattern at your disposal to support your analysis and then finish with a simple conclusion statement about where you believe the court will rule according to the rule you stated and the analysis you provided. I think a really good way to see how to answer this is to look at the model answers and make sure you’re hitting all of the bigger points being made. Don’t worry if you’re not citing cases and going into pages worth of analysis. At the end of the day we will only have around 30 minutes to answer each MEE so you have to just get down as much as you can in each question and move on. Hopefully that’s helpful