Meaning they followed the BarBri schedule religously and hadn't practiced MBE questions all summer long.
They must not have even followed the barbri schedule. I did so religiously (except that outlining crap) and had MBE questions every single day.
Yeah but how many? I know BarBri had an MBE book but that joker was mad weak when compared to the PMBR books.
Plus those BarBri MBE questions were weird. They covered the subjects, true, but they just seemed a bit...off from the real thing. But then again, neither BarBri or PMBR had the questions down exactly right on test day. However, I do have to say though that the PMBR questions seemed to more closely resemble the actual MBE questions than did the BarBri questions.
I think we had this debate earlier.
Well if you do the online stuff (which is pretty much all I did except for the printed practice tests), there are thousands of questions. I never ran out (and it was useful to mix in the ones that I'd missed before anyway).
As for BARBRI v. PMBR, I think we did have this debate. I tried to give PMBR a go, but it just didn't do it for me. So now I advise people to try out a few dozen questions from both and see which they find more helpful. After doing a PMBR question set for each section, I ended up more confused than anything. Then I had to unlearn all of those obscure exceptions and special rules they like to test. You really can pass the bar exam with a good knowledge of the basics (and basic exceptions). PMBR just takes it to a whole nother level. PMBR probably would've been nice if I'd been trying to ace the bar exam...but I wasn't. I just wanted my 133 so I could waive into the DC Bar (I still don't know my score, since VA doesn't release them, but they will tell you if it was high enough to waive into another jurisdiction, and mine, fortunately, was).
EDIT: It's possible to need higher than 133 in VA...it depends on how well you do on the VA essays. That said, BARBRI alone was still enough for me to pass and to get at least a 133.