Some Early Bar Prep Advice

Bar prep is about to begin in earnest for many people studying for July.

Remember that each MBE question is designed to test a legal principle. That's the assignment given to the law professor assigned the task of writing an MBE question.

To test that principle, facts are made up. What's important is the principle that any question is designed to test, not the facts that have been created to test that principle. So, when you answer a question wrong, extract that principle and note it somewhere. Down the line when studying, a new set of made up facts will be created to test that same principle.

The game here is to use the principle you've written down after getting a previous question wrong, and to apply that principle correctly to a new set of facts.

Those who end up doing very well on the exam have seen enough of these legal rules, and they are ready to apply them to whatever set of made up facts get tossed their way on the day of the exam.