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Date: August 23rd, 2010 2:07 PM Author: Boyish Sinister Gunner is anyone still agonizing over the bar? when will there be data to figure out the MBE scale? when will i be able to sleep at night?
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Date: August 23rd, 2010 2:09 PM Author: yapping dog poop no panic at all, but would really like the answer to the MBE scale question. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1403083&forum_id=2#15860140) |
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Date: August 23rd, 2010 2:10 PM Author: Nighttime aphrodisiac messiness meetinghouse i've had enough shitty things happen in my life since taking the bar that it's pretty far from my mind right now. but it's in the background, and failing would be vomit icing on my turd cake of life. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1403083&forum_id=2#15860146) |
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Date: August 24th, 2010 11:39 AM Author: saffron cracking ticket booth karate poetic (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1403083&forum_id=2#15867285) |
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Date: August 23rd, 2010 2:11 PM Author: umber bespoke regret I'm still agonizing over it. Even now I'm remembering mistakes I made on essays and on the MBE and it's making me cringe. Nervous as hell. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1403083&forum_id=2#15860158) |
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Date: August 23rd, 2010 2:14 PM Author: Boyish Sinister Gunner same and not NY... waiting until oct/nov... had momentary panic attacks even on my postbar trip. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1403083&forum_id=2#15860170) |
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Date: August 23rd, 2010 2:49 PM Author: umber bespoke regret I haven't gone on my trip yet (not going til September), but in retrospect, I wish I hadn't committed to spending thousands of $$$ on this bar trip because I really feel like I failed the bar. Hope my firm has mercy on me if the worst happens. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1403083&forum_id=2#15860385) |
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Date: August 24th, 2010 12:19 PM Author: brass fanboi last year, they figured out MBE scale by the middle of sept. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1403083&forum_id=2#15867524) |
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Date: August 24th, 2010 3:11 PM Author: beady-eyed digit ratio i feel basically certain that i failed. got sub-100 on the barbri practice mbe and then got too busy learning state law at the end to do more than a few sets of topic specific questions, and one multi-topic set. didnt touch any of the 100q mpq2s and whatnot...
the real thing felt twice as bad as the midsummer practice. i spend 2-4hrs a day pining over this. |
Date: August 23rd, 2010 2:10 PM Author: Wonderful cream giraffe church If I had taken NY, I would not be at all worried. I took a state with a much lower pass rate and will not be confident that I passed until I see my name on the pass list (if it's there at all). (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1403083&forum_id=2#15860149) |
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Date: August 24th, 2010 11:54 AM Author: vivacious aquamarine dingle berry DE? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1403083&forum_id=2#15867345) |
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Date: August 23rd, 2010 2:22 PM Author: Boyish Sinister Gunner Subject: NC bar pass list evidently NC pass list goes up relatively soon -- how do we figure the curve? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1403083&forum_id=2#15860243) |
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Date: August 23rd, 2010 2:55 PM Author: Amethyst Pea-brained Business Firm i'm not "agonizing" over it, but it does cross my mind a couple times a day how incredibly shitty it would be if i failed. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1403083&forum_id=2#15860432) |
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Date: August 23rd, 2010 2:58 PM Author: razzle-dazzle site pisswyrm Still convinced that I didn't pass, but not losing sleep over it. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1403083&forum_id=2#15860455) |
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Date: August 23rd, 2010 3:07 PM Author: Godawful Tan Lay Dopamine Here is a recent MBE scale. It doesn't change much year to year.
http://admissions.calbar.ca.gov/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=CLaIsuwvacw%3D&tabid=270 |
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Date: August 24th, 2010 11:24 AM Author: Soul-stirring Property Gaping I'm definitely still agonizing. Absolutely terrified my name won't be on the pass list. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1403083&forum_id=2#15867227) |
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Date: August 24th, 2010 11:38 AM Author: saffron cracking ticket booth karate you should know if you failed or not. you've had enough time to figure out your essay scores. if you did well, you likely passed; if not, likely failed. htfh (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1403083&forum_id=2#15867282) |
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Date: August 24th, 2010 11:41 AM Author: Excitant Low-t Stock Car at least once per day i have a feeling of debilitating anxiety over this. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1403083&forum_id=2#15867297) |
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Date: August 24th, 2010 12:18 PM Author: brass fanboi Yeah, not sure how to feel. Think about MBE a lot. NY essays and MC went fine. MPT- meh. first half mbe thought i crushed. second half mbe i threw darts on every question (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1403083&forum_id=2#15867508) |
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Date: August 24th, 2010 12:22 PM Author: Boyish Sinister Gunner i've had dreams realizing errors on essays... which sucks. i can't believe we have 2+ more months of this. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1403083&forum_id=2#15867548) |
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Date: August 24th, 2010 3:04 PM Author: beady-eyed digit ratio sounds like you unquestionably passed the bar (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1403083&forum_id=2#15868520) |
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Date: August 24th, 2010 3:29 PM Author: brass fanboi not sure about that..but i hope so (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1403083&forum_id=2#15868675) |
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Date: August 24th, 2010 3:55 PM Author: beady-eyed digit ratio see my post above if you want to feel better about it... (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1403083&forum_id=2#15868860) |
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Date: August 24th, 2010 4:03 PM Author: brass fanboi sorry man. hope it turns out well. what state u in? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1403083&forum_id=2#15868903) |
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Date: August 24th, 2010 4:04 PM Author: anal abusive friendly grandma *please say NY please say NY please say NY* (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1403083&forum_id=2#15868917) |
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Date: August 24th, 2010 4:04 PM Author: beady-eyed digit ratio Yes. Why. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1403083&forum_id=2#15868920) |
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Date: August 24th, 2010 4:10 PM Author: beady-eyed digit ratio I'm pretty much ready to hear the news that I have to start studying again. It's fairly depressing. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1403083&forum_id=2#15868954) |
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Date: August 24th, 2010 4:11 PM Author: anal abusive friendly grandma same. there's a level of dread here that I just wasn't expecting. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1403083&forum_id=2#15868962) |
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Date: August 24th, 2010 4:13 PM Author: brass fanboi got a job lined up? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1403083&forum_id=2#15868981) |
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Date: August 24th, 2010 4:17 PM Author: beady-eyed digit ratio Yes, but offer explicitly contingent on passing the bar. So while I feel like I ought to be searching for jobs right now, I can't because I'm *technically* employed.
It's a nightmarish limbo. |
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Date: August 24th, 2010 4:21 PM Author: brass fanboi you start before or after results come out? if u start before, at least the time may go by faster since you'll be busy=less time to worry. i don't start till jan so i have nothing to do but think (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1403083&forum_id=2#15869025) |
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Date: August 24th, 2010 4:24 PM Author: beady-eyed digit ratio the firm starts people in jan, presumably for the reason of weeding out the nonpassers (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1403083&forum_id=2#15869050) |
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Date: August 24th, 2010 4:21 PM Author: anal abusive friendly grandma that's suck man. I'd give myself another few weeks of relaxing (if you can) and just start looking around in late September "just in case."
It'll be depressing but at least working towards something will take your mind off the bar. |
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Date: August 24th, 2010 3:59 PM Author: awkward deep organic girlfriend No, there is no way I failed that thing. Sure, I didn't know jack shit about proxies and flunked the property question. And I didn't finish the MPT. But at least my answers were coherently written in English, and I knew some law.
If that's not enough to pass the bar exam, then the bar exam is seriously much more difficult than they make it out to be, and TTT's are much smarter than they are given credit for. |
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Date: August 24th, 2010 4:04 PM Author: beady-eyed digit ratio I'm mainly worried about the MBE - my sentiments are the same as yours regarding the NY day.
The MBE is the area I am shocked the TTT's can handle. That was a ton of reading, and I felt the questions were extremely difficult - if someone couldn't break 160 on the lsat, i dont understand how they could even have a shot at this year's MBE. |
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Date: August 24th, 2010 4:05 PM Author: anal abusive friendly grandma Because the MBE doesn't test any type of logic or reasoning ability. It's strictly memorization. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1403083&forum_id=2#15868925) |
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Date: August 24th, 2010 4:06 PM Author: awkward deep organic girlfriend With a little ambiguity and guesswork thrown in for good measure. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1403083&forum_id=2#15868930) |
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Date: August 24th, 2010 4:07 PM Author: anal abusive friendly grandma Not a whole lot, though. I bet we could count the truly difficult questions on our hands and toes (ie. those that were ambiguous and required guesswork).
I mean, I'm a bit far removed from it all now and everything is hazy, so I might be misremembering. But a lot of the answers that I know I got wrong (and thought were hard during the exam) were very straightforward, I just didn't know the rule. |
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Date: August 24th, 2010 4:15 PM Author: Excitant Low-t Stock Car yeah but it was a lot of exception to the exception or just weird fact patterns that felt awkward. i felt like 50% of the questions were not in the conviser mini reviews. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1403083&forum_id=2#15868988) |
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Date: August 24th, 2010 4:17 PM Author: anal abusive friendly grandma Maybe I'm just in the minority then. I remember flipping through the CMR after the MBE (yeah, my bad) and seeing a lot of the "difficult" questions answered by a sentence. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1403083&forum_id=2#15868995) |
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Date: August 24th, 2010 4:19 PM Author: beady-eyed digit ratio Yea but how many people put stuff from the CMR in their outlines they used to prepare? Barbri explicitly stated to distill them down from lectures, not to make them longer. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1403083&forum_id=2#15869017) |
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Date: August 24th, 2010 4:20 PM Author: anal abusive friendly grandma I didn't take a barbri course, so I have no clue. My preparation was exclusively the CMR. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1403083&forum_id=2#15869018) |
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Date: August 24th, 2010 4:07 PM Author: beady-eyed digit ratio While that's true to an extent, I'm not sure I totally agree. There's definitely some reasoning involved in the sense that the MBE requires you to pick the *best* answer, often where all of the answers are shitty, or all seem right.
I dominated the lsat, and will be lucky if i broke 100 on this thing. |
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Date: August 24th, 2010 4:11 PM Author: anal abusive friendly grandma Look at your last sentence again. If that doesn't support my argument, I don't know what does. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1403083&forum_id=2#15868957) |
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Date: August 24th, 2010 4:16 PM Author: beady-eyed digit ratio I mean, yes, you're technically right. I'm just really surprised by that. Even if you make the argument that I didn't know enough law, I studied my ass off all summer. While I might not have done enough practice MBE questions, I filled my days with work, so it's not like I slacked- I genuinely felt like I didn't have the time for any additional MBE practice toward the end.
I just question how thousands of TTTs can outperform that, when I'm already working with T14 creds. |
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Date: August 24th, 2010 4:18 PM Author: anal abusive friendly grandma Well the thing is we ALL feel that way. No one feels confident after the bar exam. Additionally, there's the whole "You don't know all the law but you know enough to pass the bar."
We're all going to be fine, we probably all passed, and this is just us going through the freak-out period like everyone else. |
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Date: August 24th, 2010 7:31 PM Author: Arrogant pistol (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1403083&forum_id=2#15870620) |
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Date: August 24th, 2010 7:31 PM Author: Arrogant pistol if the avg is 100 or less (you almost certainly exceeded the avg), then the scale is going to be huge. to have any credibility, the NCBEX can't have 25 point swings in their scores year over year! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1403083&forum_id=2#15870628) |
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Date: August 24th, 2010 5:36 PM Author: Boyish Sinister Gunner Subject: people who are convinced they passed tend to fail (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1403083&forum_id=2#15869677) |
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Date: August 24th, 2010 5:48 PM Author: mauve sound barrier ppl like u always fail. prepare to fail. you will fail. ofs u will (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1403083&forum_id=2#15869799) |
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Date: August 24th, 2010 7:31 PM Author: razzmatazz claret legal warrant Man, I havent worried about it since. Not for any good reason, it's just pointless now. Let it go (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1403083&forum_id=2#15870626) |
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Date: August 24th, 2010 7:48 PM Author: bearded mad-dog skullcap institution titcr (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1403083&forum_id=2#15870749) |
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Date: September 28th, 2010 11:54 PM Author: Soul-stirring Property Gaping bump because I'm still feeling it. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1403083&forum_id=2#16169036) |
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Date: September 28th, 2010 11:56 PM Author: Autistic lavender toilet seat house absolutely nothing you can do about it now, so have a glass of wine and congratulate yourself on working hard, at the very least (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1403083&forum_id=2#16169054) |
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Date: September 28th, 2010 11:59 PM Author: anal abusive friendly grandma what if I didn't even work hard? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1403083&forum_id=2#16169069) |
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Date: September 29th, 2010 12:05 AM Author: Opaque comical parlour haunted graveyard I just called a friend on the state bar committee. You passed. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1403083&forum_id=2#16169128) |
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Date: September 29th, 2010 12:07 AM Author: anal abusive friendly grandma lulz, ty. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1403083&forum_id=2#16169141) |