OUR APPROACH TO THE MBE

Small Group Workshops: our small group MBE workshops, held either 6 Sundays 11-2 or 6 Thursdays 6-9pm, are a truly effective, targeted approach to the MBE. Each week, President Tania Shah or Vice President Melissa Gill will go over 20 carefully chosen questions of an MBE topic. Three focused hours will be spent going through each and every question tracking patterns in sub-topics, learning how to answer any questions in a given subject, and most importantly, learning from each and every question. The small, interactive group has always been a huge plus for students, and students get to know each other, support each other, and most importantly, learn from each other.

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One-of-One Tutoring: One on one tutoring, used in combination with Small Group Workshops, is an extraordinarily effective way to focus on a student’s individual needs and issues when it comes to tackling the MBE. Your instructor will not only assign and go over questions with you, but teach you how to Law Tutors Track, how to use our unique Tracking Card, and will emphasize the importance of quality over quantity. Most importantly, your Attorney Instructor will watch and listen to you go through MBE questions and take you through step by step so that each and every piece of advice is specifically applicable to you as an individual.

Up To Date MBE Questions

As the MBE if ever-changing, LawTutors strives to ensure that LawTutors’ students are provided with the most up-to-date questions that accurately reflect what is tested on the MBE. In fact, Tania and Melissa are editors of the most recent MBE Workbook published by Aspen Publishers, Blond’s Multistate Bar Exam, 5^th Edition.

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Some Tips For Studying For the MBE.

I. Study Details, not general concepts

Since the MBE will never say “please define battery”, you need to be able to apply the general concepts to specific facts and nuances. To do this, practice more and more MBE questions, so you can gather more and more examples. This will be far more effective than reviewing the same outline, since outlines only have general concepts.  However, on the issue of how many MBE questions you should so, see Section “X.”

II. Pay attention to language

Pay attention to what the bar examiners are giving you, such as a statute or special fact. In addition, do not make things more complex. If the question seems easy, it probably is. Bear in mind, the bar examiners are not giving you statues and facts you do not need, so be sure that if you notice them, you think about why they are there.

In addition, pay attention to the language of answer choices. A single word can have a HUGE impact on what an answer choice means. For example, but,since, if and unless.

But, Since: the examiners are telling you that you can answer the question based on what is given to you in the fact pattern.

If, Unless: the examiner are qualifying the answer with additional information that you are required to have to make that statement true.

III. Self Check and Review

When practicing questions, self check them. This does not mean that you should do 50 questions and then check, but rather closer to 5. This is so that you can remember the question, both the fact pattern and the reasons you chose the answer. You cannot properly understand the question, and why you got it wrong, without understanding or remembering why you chose the answer you did. It is not worth your time to do questions at all if you are not going to take the time to understand why the right answer is correct.

IV. Re-Review

Don’t be afraid to go back to questions you’ve already done once, or even twice. You need to ensure that you completely understand the question, since the subject matter and structure of MBE questions are often repeated. Students are often reluctant to redo questions they have already done, but trust us when we say that it truly is a benefit.

V. Quality over quantity

We have often heard students say “I did over 2000 questions and I still didn’t pass the exam!” We want you to practice more MBE questions in particular topics and sub-topics that you may be having trouble with, while still keeping up with the topics and sub-topics you are strong in. For example, if you are weak in battery but strong with respect to the other intentional torts, practice a host of different kind of battery questions and, since you are in the subject of intentional torts, go ahead and so some questions on assault, IIED, trespass, etc. to keep up your strength in those areas.

Remember, doing 50 questions and TRULY understanding the questions is always better than doing 500 questions and not remembering or understanding any of them.