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Barbri MBE questions v. Real MBE Questions
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Date: June 28th, 2012 5:55 PM Author: Cocky Mischievous Church I thought I'd ask some bar takers what the differences are between the two. In general I feel like Barbri is flaming me, lot's of minor technicality question only in the super giant review, and lots of nitpicky logic over testing the law. Scoring around 70% on the questions and feel its tough to do better just because the amount of stupid (as opposed to substantive) tricks. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1981955&forum_id=2#20978394) |
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Date: June 28th, 2012 8:59 PM Author: Excitant trailer park Do a search for MBE, there is a huge disparity between the bar bri scores and actually scores. Also, if you're scoring around 70% this early you're fine, so why are you concerned? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1981955&forum_id=2#20979552) |
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Date: June 28th, 2012 9:04 PM Author: plum bespoke kitchen cr if you're scoring 70% on barbri questions you'll probably get 80-85% of the real ones right
in other words, fuck you |
Date: June 28th, 2012 9:01 PM Author: mewling digit ratio cuckoldry Bar Bri are WAY harder. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1981955&forum_id=2#20979561) |
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Date: June 28th, 2012 9:07 PM Author: Dashing insane love of her life I disagree with the poster above. The actual MBE is more difficult than Barbri's questions. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1981955&forum_id=2#20979587) |
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Date: June 28th, 2012 9:08 PM Author: elite henna dilemma candlestick maker This was my experience with Barbri MPRE prep and real questions. Fuck Barbri. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1981955&forum_id=2#20979589) |
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Date: June 28th, 2012 9:09 PM Author: Dashing insane love of her life yes exactly. the real mbe questions were harder -- granted that i passed on my first try and that i finished both sections right on time.
but barbri's questions are just different. i cant describe how or why. but they are different. i think the actual mbe throws in more confusing facts to throw you off. |
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Date: June 28th, 2012 9:14 PM Author: plum bespoke kitchen lolwut
the mpre questions were WAY harder
i was barely passing the barbri practice mpres and i scored 120+ on the real test |
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Date: June 28th, 2012 9:15 PM Author: Dashing insane love of her life MBE QUESTIONS
not "mpre" |
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Date: June 28th, 2012 9:16 PM Author: plum bespoke kitchen yes i know
but poaster above said he thought barbri mpre questions were harder than real thing which is laughable |
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Date: June 28th, 2012 9:18 PM Author: Dashing insane love of her life OH. the poaster above is a moron for misreading. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1981955&forum_id=2#20979630) |
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Date: June 28th, 2012 9:21 PM Author: elite henna dilemma candlestick maker I didn't misread you faggot, you did. I was comparing my experience with barbri's MPRE questions which were way easier than the real thing, and not even on the right topics much of the time. I haven't done barbri MBE questions. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1981955&forum_id=2#20979642) |
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Date: June 28th, 2012 9:25 PM Author: Dashing insane love of her life (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1981955&forum_id=2#20979658) |
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Date: June 28th, 2012 9:26 PM Author: plum bespoke kitchen lol you're wrong bro (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1981955&forum_id=2#20979668) |
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Date: June 28th, 2012 9:30 PM Author: Dashing insane love of her life I'm not even going to get into this because the OP is clearly asking about the MBE and not MPRE. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1981955&forum_id=2#20979698) |
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Date: June 28th, 2012 11:27 PM Author: Maroon lay First time I didn't study for MPRE: 70 After taking 4 practice tests from Barbri: 135
I was getting maybe 2/3 of the questions right on the practice tests before the retake. But I think a 135 (out of 150) is a handful of questions wrong.
Barbri did a good job for the MPRE. Hopefully, it does as good a job for the MBE. |
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Date: June 28th, 2012 9:09 PM Author: Soggy Office Faggotry Why does literally every other person say otherwise? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1981955&forum_id=2#20979594) |
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Date: June 28th, 2012 9:20 PM Author: Razzle National Dog Poop iirc barbri's questions are very longwinded whereas the real questions are much shorter and to the point. i'm not sure which i'd say were more difficult though. i think barbri just makes complicated fact patterns so that you get in the habit of reading very carefully, but the real questions still manage to test minutiae. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1981955&forum_id=2#20979637) |
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Date: June 28th, 2012 9:23 PM Author: plum bespoke kitchen a lot of barbri mbe questions are 'gotcha' questions that turn on stupid technicalities that have nothing to do with the substantive law (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1981955&forum_id=2#20979650) |
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Date: July 13th, 2015 1:02 PM Author: Aromatic locale As opposed to faggot MBE questions? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1981955&forum_id=2#28318812) |
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Date: July 12th, 2015 11:16 PM Author: Nubile diverse den Cr (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1981955&forum_id=2#28316094) |
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Date: June 28th, 2012 9:26 PM Author: Brass degenerate pozpig i had never seen an MBE question in my life until 2 weeks before the exam. did 4-5 barbri sets for each mbe topic and passed with room to spare. barbri set 6's are bullshit, but i felt that 1-4 (and i guess, to an extent, 5) were pretty realistic in difficulty, though the barbri q's took up half a page, the real mbe q's were like 3-4 sentences (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1981955&forum_id=2#20979666) |
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Date: June 28th, 2012 9:44 PM Author: citrine fighting menage The hardest MBE questions were harder than the hardest BarBri ones. Look up the thread from last summer after the MBE day. People were debating individual questions, some of which they never came to a conclusion on.
However, the MBE gimmies were easier (and more plentiful) than the BarBri ones. |
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Date: June 28th, 2012 9:48 PM Author: Cocky Mischievous Church Another common Barbri thing is where they tell you to always follow a rule, you follow that rule, and the answer goes LOL WRONG look at the circumstances and common sense. Then the lecturers tell you not to use common sense and follow the counter intuitive rules. Some mindfuck balancing act. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1981955&forum_id=2#20979841) |
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Date: June 29th, 2012 2:35 AM Author: Arrogant orchestra pit private investor i thought the MBE was harder than barbri. i didn't feel sure about anything. the only thing that was better was that the questions were shorter but it was random. part of this could have been because i had stopped doing MBE questions a few weeks before the bar (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1981955&forum_id=2#20982117) |
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Date: June 29th, 2012 2:52 AM Author: Submissive karate keepsake machete Fuck yeah guys! keep it up you're doing great! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1981955&forum_id=2#20982158) |
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Date: June 29th, 2012 2:53 AM Author: Arrogant orchestra pit private investor wut (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1981955&forum_id=2#20982161) |
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Date: June 29th, 2012 2:59 AM Author: Submissive karate keepsake machete i'm just happy to see bar takers. gawd it sucks (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1981955&forum_id=2#20982190) |
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Date: June 29th, 2012 3:01 AM Author: Arrogant orchestra pit private investor oh yeah but i'm not a current bar taker. it was the worst summer of my life though (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1981955&forum_id=2#20982199) |
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Date: June 29th, 2012 3:04 AM Author: Zombie-like Fuchsia Tank That was such a horrible time in my life. I don't know what I would've done if I failed. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1981955&forum_id=2#20982205) |
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Date: June 29th, 2012 3:06 AM Author: Arrogant orchestra pit private investor me either. i was convinced i failed too. as bad as it was studying for the bar - and that was BAD BAD BAD - waiting for the results was a different kind of hell. but then the second you learn you passed is so freeing (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1981955&forum_id=2#20982209) |
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Date: June 29th, 2012 3:10 AM Author: Zombie-like Fuchsia Tank I took CA and they give results about a week before Thanksgiving. So if you fail you have to face your family for the holidays. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1981955&forum_id=2#20982221) |
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Date: June 29th, 2012 3:11 AM Author: Arrogant orchestra pit private investor yeah me too, i took CA too. were your results in red? that was the bar's final HAHA fuck you. i thought i failed when i saw the red font (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1981955&forum_id=2#20982229) |
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Date: June 29th, 2012 3:13 AM Author: Zombie-like Fuchsia Tank Yeah, I'll never forget my heart sinking when I saw the red font. That had to be intentional just to fuck with everybody. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1981955&forum_id=2#20982233) |
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Date: June 29th, 2012 3:15 AM Author: Arrogant orchestra pit private investor it's the best feeling though.
gl to everyone taking it. even if you are convinced you've failed, you are probably wrong |
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Date: June 29th, 2012 2:52 AM Author: Zombie-like Fuchsia Tank Here's how the MBE went for me. About 5-10% of the questions were on random shit that Barbri didn't discuss, and I wouldn't have known those answers if I studied for an extra couple months. For about 40-45% of the questions I was very confident I knew the correct answer. For about 50% of the questions I was able to narrow it down to two possible answers but I didn't know which of the two was correct. Because of this you'll leave feeling like you failed.
The Barbri questions didn't resemble the actual questions. The actual questions were shorter than barbri's. I thought the actual questions were more clearly written and easier to read.
Most people say that the OPE 3 exam on the NCBE's website is an accurate prediction of your performance on the MBE. My state doesn't tell you your score if you pass, so I can't say whether my predicted score was accurate. |
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Date: June 29th, 2012 2:56 AM Author: Soggy Office Faggotry that's $50! what a fucking scam (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1981955&forum_id=2#20982176) |
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Date: June 29th, 2012 2:58 AM Author: Zombie-like Fuchsia Tank I thought it was worth it. I did it about a week before the exam and it predicted a high score so it calmed me a little and allowed me to focus on essay stuff for the final few days. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1981955&forum_id=2#20982189) |
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Date: July 12th, 2015 11:06 PM Author: Fishy underhanded theater (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1981955&forum_id=2#28316034) |