I just looked at the CA MBE conversion chart here and saw that my raw score was a 136 (which was scaled to a 150.7).
Wow!
Last July, my raw score was a 106 which scaled to a 126.7. Thirty (30) points higher!
I am amazed (and happy)!
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Thoughts and comments from my second (successful!!) attempt at the bar exam (D.C., Feb 08) after a narrow miss (Midwestern state, July 07). Additional random thoughts on life.
About Me
- Midwesterner (Previously) in D.C.
- Just a good ol' Midwestern boy that adapted (?) to the really big city D.C. world. Now back in the Midwest.
DC bar exam posts from my blog
- History for date of DC results (2005-2012)
- July 2009 DC bar exam essay questions
- Feb 09 DC essay questions
- July 2008 DC MEE subjects tested
- Feb 08 DC essay questions
- Official DC pass letter
- My thoughts on the DC Feb 08 bar exam (including my study info)
- DC Court of Appeals certification letter
- Feb 2008 MBE raw v scaled info
- DC Swearing In
Bar Exam Blogs
- Aspiring Solo (D.C)
- Blawgin' (CA)
- Calbar blondie (CA)
- Clearing the Bar (Exam) (CA)
- DC Bar Exam (D.C.)
- Failing the Bar (NY)
- Failing the Bar Exam and Living Throught it Just to Take it Again (NY,NJ)
- Frustrated Bar Examinee (CO)
- I'm a Marilyn, Not a Jackie (NC/GA)
- Irrantional Basis (CA)
- Law with Grace (IL)
- My Bar Tab (CA)
- Passing the California Bar Exam (CA)
- recovering from three days at the bar (CA)
- Screaming Bean (NY)
- The Life and Times of Chai (D.C.)
2 comments:
Hi,
Congrats to you! What mbe program did you take to improve so much to passing?
thanks,
calbarblondie
Calbar-
Thanks. I did mostly the same thing as last summer this time around:
6 Day and 3 Day PMBR
BarBri
This time there were a few things I think I can attribute my MBE improvement to:
-Listening to the PMBR cds (I had them last summer, but no time to listen to them. This time, I listened to them via iPod while riding the Metro for the seven weeks before the exam)
-Better effort/focus on learning the wrong answers for the MBE questions I did. I really tried to nail down the questions as I worked on them. Writing down answers, adding to my outline, making a few flashcards...whatever it took to help get a point of law into my head.
Honestly, I thought the MBE this Feb felt just as bad as last summer. The only difference I really noticed is in how many questions I thought I knew immediately after reading the question; last summer, I thought it only felt like 5-10 per half of the exam. This time it felt more like 10-20. The remaining questions were just as nebulous, confusing and shitty as before. Damn you NCBE!
I also thought the explanations in the Strategies & Tactics book by Walton & Emanuel was helpful. They give great answers for all the choices. I probably should have done more out of that book (I think I did 30-40 per subject). Really, I did the bulk of my questions using the BarBri StudySmart software so I could hone in on my areas of weakness. (With my MBE score, I got right around 70% correct, which is a little higher than what I was averaging during all of my practice questions.)
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