Bar/Bri MPQ-2 Full Day MBE

[CoxlessPair]

Has anyone else done this yet? I took it today and somehow dropped 3 points from my Bar/Bri practice MBE a few weeks ago. 126 to 123. What the @#!*? I've been putting foot to ass with studying and I get dumber?

Whatever shred of confidence I had about covering my essay bases with a higher MBE is now totally gone.

[jacy85]

I did the 1/2 day, and sucked.  I did much worse on it than I did percentage-wise on the practice MBE and any of the released question sets in the MPQ2 book.

I wouldn't panic - I think it's the usual Bar/Bri strategy.  They don't want people to slack, they want you to study harder, and they know we're all hitting the MPQ2 book late in the game, so they put a concentration of hard questions in these sets.  It will make the real thing seem easier (I think), and make us all praise Bar/Bri's praises after the fact.

[CoxlessPair]

I did the 1/2 day, and sucked.  I did much worse on it than I did percentage-wise on the practice MBE and any of the released question sets in the MPQ2 book.

I wouldn't panic - I think it's the usual Bar/Bri strategy.  They don't want people to slack, they want you to study harder, and they know we're all hitting the MPQ2 book late in the game, so they put a concentration of hard questions in these sets.  It will make the real thing seem easier (I think), and make us all praise Bar/Bri's praises after the fact.

I considered that theory on my walk home. I sure hope you are right and I can see the logic in that, but making us more panicked this close to the test seems more counterproductive than anything. 

[MiamiHurricane]

You are probably completely exhausted.  I'm finding it harder and harder to access the stuff in my brain that I have learned.  I finally gave up and took a nap for 45 minutes this afternoon.  I think it made a big difference, I at least feel better about the essays, which were freaking me out earlier.

[blacksox]

Has anyone else done this yet? I took it today and somehow dropped 3 points from my Bar/Bri practice MBE a few weeks ago. 126 to 123. What the @#!*? I've been putting foot to ass with studying and I get dumber?

Whatever shred of confidence I had about covering my essay bases with a higher MBE is now totally gone.

I dropped two points from my practice MBE a few weeks back.  I feel like jumping out my window, too bad I'm on the bottom floor.
I've spent ALOT of time on the MBE stuff lately, and just cant fathom how I went down as well....  it's gotta be bar/bri throwing us for a loop to get us studying till the very end, grrrrrrrr

[CoxlessPair]

I've been going through threads on JDUnderground and XO in regard to this exam, as well as going through all the answers, and this seems universally a difficult MBE.

Some of the answers for these Full Day questions are BS in my opinion.

This has been just a body blow for my non-existent self-esteem. As you put it, the bottom floor. I just had a total breakdown going through stuff on enforcement of Covenants because I'm in such a "tizzy" from this goddamn test. Thankfully there is a table of biddies next to me at library so I had to keep it together.

I really should have just gone to Wisconsin Law and been waved in. I'm sitting for IL, which is 88%-90% pass in the past 3 years, and I'm still a mess. What a screwed up way to determine minimum competency for the profession.