Strategies & Tactics for the MBE (Multistate Bar Exam)
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 Great way to jump start your MBE study |
| Review Date: July 3, 2006 |
| Reviewer: SmrtnSass, CA |
| This book provides a strategic way to take MBE questions with an intro of what topics are tested within each subject and then an exam tactics section of what to look for in the questions. Then there are detailed answers for each question so you can look to see why the wrong answers are not correct. I would recommend this to anyone preparing for the Bar Exam, my bar study professor recommended to begin using this book our last semester of school before we actually began heavily studying for the exam, it was good advice! |
A Must-Have
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| Review Date: June 30, 2008 |
| Reviewer: sayock, |
Contrary to what another reviewer said, this book doesn't have two full-length exams, or at least not the edition I have (2005). It has the AM and PM sections of a full-length exam.
Other reviews also mention the tips in this book, but the real value in this book is all the actual MBE questions from past exams as well as the explanation to those questions (including the full-length exam). I have found that the barbri and PMBR questions and answer choices are noticeably different much of the time from these past questions and their answer choices. Both companies make their questions long, and barbri's are unnecessarily long. But most actual questions are short. Barbri's explanations are also long and repetitive, whereas the explanations in this book are more concise. Most importantly, these questions are harder than the ones you're doing from barbri and even PMBR. Even the majority of the questions in the one barbri book that has past MBE questions in it are easier in comparison. If you can understand the questions/explanations in this book, you will be prepared for the bar.
As for the tips, I have found around two or three extremely valuable ones in each section that I've read so far. This is not to say the majority of the tips/writing in the book is helpful or that you can use this book without barbri/subject outlines. But the helpful tips that I got out of this book are ones that barbri doesn't spell out and I wouldn't have figured out on my own. Those tips alone really will raise your score, because you will get at least a few more questions right in every single subject from them.
I agree that this book is pricey, but if you can find a cheaper copy somewhere then that's your best bet because you need this book. |
Comprehensive for Multistate review
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| Review Date: February 21, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Charles Vincent, USA |
| I have yet to take the MBE, but my initial take on this book is very positive. Although I think it could do a better job of giving a more detailed summary of each of the sections of the test, it does have roughly 50 multiple choice for each section, and each answer (right or wrong) does spell out the black letter law. It also has a full 200-question MBE at the end of the book. To supplement PMBR/Barbri (or even supplant one of them), this may be the best option. For the price, I believe it's money well spent (and what's another forty on top of a hundred thousand anyway?). |
Bar exam prep
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| Review Date: June 8, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Rebecca Christie, Salem, Mass. |
| Very good resource--excellent tips on the nuances of how the bar examiners are trying to trick you. Before PMBR and BarBri, this was the only book many people used to study. I would highly recommend it |
Very good advice and strategies, but mistakes are distracting
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| Review Date: August 8, 2008 |
| Reviewer: Jeanne Hoffman, DC |
The advice in this book is invaluable. It helps you to learn what answer choices are never correct on the bar exam, how the bar examiners try to confuse you (by using analogous situations, for example, that sound a lot like exception-situations, but where the exceptions don't actually apply), strategies for eliminating answer choices when you have no idea, and the main topics tested on the Bar Exam.
The book is set up to help you whether you prepare way ahead of time (and helps you concentrate on the more asked subjects) or prepare way late in the game (tells you what subjects to "punt" if you do not have enough time).
I found the questions they ask are a bit more straight forward than actual bar exam questions, but were very useful for explaining the material. The explanations were the most thorough I've found of any bar exam prep, and the wrong answers are all explained up through the logic of that answer choice being included.
What distracted me while using this were the typos. For the brand (Emmanuel), the typos seemed a bit unusual, and were time consuming. Sometimes, when I was going through some questions quickly, I was confused by all answers being listed as "incorrect" in the back. I had to do a double take at the explanation to realize which ones of these were actually the right answer. The typos aren't rampant, but enough for me to notice and be annoyed at.
Overall, I think this is a great tool for organizing your studying, learning what material to concentrate on and for developing question answering strategies. It does not work alone, and I highly recommend exploring outside of this book to learn the substantive law. |
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