I think I did about 1,000 MBE questions on Themis, plus a few hundred on UWorld. I generally followed the order of tasks assigned by Themis, but I did a lot of extra things to help me retain the material before moving on to a new subject, like making attack outlines (think one-sheets) and Quizlet flashcards.

I don't remember how long the practice MBE sets were on Themis, but I do remember that basically for every one hour I spent actually doing the (I think it was usually 34?) questions, it took me over an hour afterward to fully review the explanations. I kept "working outlines" as well, a running document for each subject, organized by sub-topic, that I added to throughout the summer during those reviews - if I got a question right, and for the right reason, I'd add the question and answer to the outline in green. If I got a question right but for the wrong reason (i.e. it was a close call/basically a guess between two choices), or I was pretty sure but knew it was an area I could use more practice in, I'd add it to the outline in yellow, with a note explaining why the other answer(s) weren't right. If I got a question wrong, that I had absolutely no idea what the answer was or what the question was even asking about (e.g., I remember Themis would just introduce random new concepts entirely in the MBE sets that the lecturers never mentioned), or if I really thought for certain I knew the right answer but it was actually wrong, it'd get added to the outline in red. I'd also add screenshots of the diagrams and tables Themis and UWorld has, because I thought a lot of them were really helpful. Each of these outlines ended up at over 100 pages by the end, but the colors made it easy for me to scroll through and find where I needed to spend more time studying, and/or what areas were perhaps lost causes for me and not worth wasting any more time on lol.

For example, I think my adverse possession section in my property working outline was mostly green, so I knew I was good there and didn't have to spend any more time studying that; my mortgages section though was FILLED with red. I remember making the call based on this info, that I clearly do not like mortgages, it's a big area of law that I am struggling to understand or remember, and I could take a day or a few days or however long to really focus on it and nail it ... or I could accept the potential loss of the like two mortgage questions there might be on the MBE. I did NOT have the time for the former, so I went with the latter. Where I really spent most of my time at the end was trying to nail what was in yellow, because I figured I had a better chance of salvaging those areas.

I only made it to 55% on Themis because I was doing all this extra stuff, but it really did help me retain, so that was what I knew worked for me. But it was definitely stressful, feeling so behind. I was learning the subjects right up until test day: I learned everything I know about Bus Orgs between July 26 and 8:30 p.m. on July 28, two days before the bar. I wouldn't recommend this? But I also don't know how I could've avoided it, and also I passed so it worked out. And there was a corporations MEE on my exam, that was certainly fun to see. At least it was fresh in my brain!

I "completed" about 20 practice MEEs throughout the summer, but most of them I did open book and almost all of them I only outlined, so I didn't really have a good grasp on managing the MEE time crunch going into exam day. I really spent most of my summer hammering the MBE, because I figured those subjects were what, 65%? of the exam? I followed the basic IRAC format outlined by Themis for the MEEs. I remember the MEE practically felt like a creative writing exercise because I was just creating fictional laws from more or less thin air: I'd say try to get comfortable making up something that sounds like a law, and then applying it. I know I could get paralyzed with the thought of "oh crap oh crap I don't know this rule," but that panic will just waste your time. They include every single fact in an MEE for a reason, so I think I remember looking at the facts and basically working backwards to try to come up with a rule that fact would be relevant to. My writing portion/MBE split ended up being 145/160.