MBE: Beginning Your Campaign To Pass The Bar Exam explains how to think
about organizing, learning and applying the vast amount of material bar exam
candidates must know in order to pass the bar exam.
Features:
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Teaches bar exam strategy
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Analogizes studying for the bar exam to running for President by explaining
the relative worth of the categories of law tested.
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Explains the best way to learn for the bar exam is through wrong answers by
learning from mistakes in the context of fact patterns rather than from
substantive outlines or videos.
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Offers approaches to organize the law for efficient study.
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Highlights common errors at-risk bar exam candidates make.
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Explains how one may simultaneously prepare for the MBE and state essay
questions.
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Active Learning Exercises
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Explains concept of actively engaging with fact patterns and provides numerous
application exercises.
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Teaches students how to solve problems by focusing on at least one highly
tested category in each MBE subject.
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Detailed Examples and Explanations
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Teaches students how to make the best use of practice questions.
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Provides drills designed to systematically improve test-taking skills.
View Sample Chapter.
Introduction: A. The Bar Exam
B. The MBE
C. “Campaigning” to Pass the Bar Exam
D. State Essay Exams
E. Organizing the Material to Learn and Remember the Law
1. The Outline Approach
iii. Contract Formation
2. Charts and Tables
i. Common Law Contracts versus UCC Article 2
ii. Constitutional Rights
F. Important Points to Keep in Mind
Chapter One: The Broad Lens: Setting the Framework for Legal Analysis
A. Sample Broad Lens Analysis I
B. Sample Broad Lens Analysis II
C. Broad Lens Exercises
D. Broad Lens Exercise Answers
Chapter Two: The Narrow Lens: Actively Reading Fact Patterns
A. Sample Narrow Lens Analysis I
B. Sample Narrow Lens Analysis II
C. Narrow Lens Exercises
D. Narrow Lens Exercise Answers
Chapter Three: Active Learning for the MBE
A. Active Learning Example I
B. Active Learning Example II
C. Active Learning Exercises
D. Active Learning Exercise Answers
Chapter Four: The Capstone: Learning through Wrong Answers
A. Learning through a Wrong Answer Example I
B. Learning through a Wrong Answer Example II
C. Wrong Answer Exercises
5. Real Property
D. Correct Answers for Wrong Answer Exercise
Chapter Five: Conclusion
