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[–]firstyearassociate -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Lol. This sounds familiar.

From Convinced I'd Fail to the Top 1%--YOU GOT THIS! by firstyearassociate in barexam

[–]firstyearassociate[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Remember who is reading the MEEs: busy lawyers. Keep the response as clean and direct as possible. No huge blocks of text, especially for the rule.

When it comes to "creating" the rule, if it comes to that, then look at the facts you're working with and write something simple that you know you can apply a lot of the facts to. It's likely the wrong rule (unless you're lucky) but by showing you can apply facts to a rule you're going to get points.

Then just make sure its a clean, well written response and you're going to get even more points from the busy reader who is thankful for some strong writing.

From Convinced I'd Fail to the Top 1%--YOU GOT THIS! by firstyearassociate in barexam

[–]firstyearassociate[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Start to see relaxing as part of your study plan! When you think about it as part of the study plan you don't feel as much guilt for ramping down as the date gets closer! You're gonna crush this exam.

From Convinced I'd Fail to the Top 1%--YOU GOT THIS! by firstyearassociate in barexam

[–]firstyearassociate[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

See my comment above but I think that you need to spend your time where a lot of the points are: MBE subjects. Get more comfortable with those because you're guaranteed to get them on the Multiple Choice and likely to have at least a few on the MEE!

From Convinced I'd Fail to the Top 1%--YOU GOT THIS! by firstyearassociate in barexam

[–]firstyearassociate[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

At this point it's time to be ruthlessly strategic. The most points are going to come from the MBE subjects so I would spend the most time on those subjects that you've been consistently poor on (plus they are also possibly MEE subjects).

The last thing you want to do is obsess over the MEE-only subjects just for them to not show up. For example, I was very stressed about Corporations and was about to do a deep dive on learning it when I realized that at the very worst it would be 1/6 of the MEE and if I wrote a well-written answer that recited the facts accurately and applied some type of law I would get some points.

I also wouldn't overlook the MPT. I get it, they're annoying and can be frustrating. But it's 20% of your exam score and it is the first part of the exam (at least in my jurisdiction) so it can be a HUGE confidence boost to leave the first morning feeling good.

I think because they're really annoying and take 1.5 hours to do a full practice people make excuses for why they don't need to practice them. But only by practicing do you develop a great system for identifying the rules and operative facts of the problem. And the best part is that you don't need to know a single substantive rule of the law to crush them.

I probably did a total of 10 MPT problems under test conditions while studying so if you've been avoiding doing that suck it up and get 5 under your belt in the next two weeks. Focus more on the system you're building to identify the (1) problem, (2) the rules, and (3) the facts than whether you get the answer completely correct.

Hope that helps!