The July 2013 Bar Exam: The Trouble with the MBE

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The MBE test is hard.  No one can dispute that. Students are often competitive with the written essay portion of the exam, but bomb out on the MBE.

We, at Bar Professors, know you are disappointed with your MBE results.  However, taking the MBE again will call for a change in approach, strategy and preparation to pass.  Our advice to you is not to give up but to try a new approach with Bar Professors.  Our new cross training approach with concentration on factual distinctions in the MBE fact pattern versus the traditional method of legal extraction has increased many MBE repeat takers scores by as much as 20%.  Give yourself a fighting chance to pass the bar exam in your state by improving your MBE score.  Whether you are from North Carolina, Illinois, Wisconsin or any other state, Bar Professors can help you improve your MBE score.

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The February 2013 Bar Exam Results: The UBE/MEE Exam Analysis

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The Uniform Bar Examination (UBE) consists of six 30-minute questions and 2 Multiple Performance Tests (MPT). States that have the UBE are Alabama, Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Utah, Washington and Wyoming.  The MEE omits the 2 MPT tests, but has nine 30-minute questions.  The Multistate Essay Examination (MEE) is given in 28 jurisdictions including Arkansas, Connecticut, Washington, D.C., Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Mississippi, New Mexico, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Dakota, West Virginia, and Wisconsin.

For the February 2013 bar exam, the  6 MEE essays included property, contracts, constitutional law, agency and partnership, evidence and negotiable instruments. 

For scoring, each essay and each MPT answer  was worth 12 points, raw score.  The average raw score per essay was:

Essay 1 - Property:  3.86 = 32%

Essay 2 - Contracts: 5.20 = 43%

Essay 3 – Const. Law: 6.27 = 52%

Essay 4 – Agency/Partnership: 6.65 =  55%

Essay 5 - Evidence:  4.98 =  42%

Essay 6 – Neg. Instr,:  4.05 = 34%

MPT 1 - Martel:  5.27 = 44%

MPT 2  - Fox:  6.21 = 52%

Looking at the essays, it is clear that Property and Negotiable Instruments were the hardest essays.  The easiest, Agency/Partnership and Constitutional Law. 

For the MPT, the Fox assignment was clearly the easier of the two MPTs.

Bar Professors works with repeat bar takers who have trouble passing the UBE/MEE.  Bar Professors has developed a rigorous program for repeat bar takers, addressing the writing techniques of short answer essays of the Multistate Essay Examination (MEE) and the Uniform Bar Examination (UBE) with critical feedback. This feedback is important for the repeat bar takers’ overall improvement.  Bar Professors provides one-on-one substantive lectures on all subjects with practice questions and critiques, and methods and procedures to improve your essay scores.

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The February 2013 Bar Exam Results: Repeat Takers: Cross the Finish Line with Bar Professors

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With California releasing their results last Friday, most of the states, except for Georgia, have released their bar exam results.  For those takers who have failed the bar exam, you will need a bar exam tutor to get you over the finish line.

As a repeat taker, you must take the bar exam again. It’s time to refocus again on the bar.  Taking the exam again will call for a change in approach, strategy, and preparation for you to pass that final hurdle in fulfilling your dream of becoming a lawyer. The bar exam is not an academic exercise. The bar examiners want to know whether you are prepared to practice law.

Don’t do the same thing you did for the first bar you took. Employ a private bar tutor, like Bar Professors, who can work one on one with you to keep you sharp and motivated and you will be on the way to passing the bar. Bar Professors has a unique cross training system that keeps the students working towards their goals of passing the bar exam.  We grade your essays, probing areas where you need improvement.  We have a weekly discussion lecture on substantive law. We talk about strategy, speed and accuracy and Bar Professors drills the student, using repetition, as a means of learning.  We have had much success with students who have taken the bar exam two, three and even eight times.

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The February 2013 Bar Exam Results: California Has Released Its Results

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The California Bar Exam Results has released its results for private look-up.  On Sunday,  May 19^th,  California will release the results for public look-up.

Preliminary statistical analyses show that of the 4,419 applicants who took the GBX, 31 percent were first-time takers. The passing rate for 1,371 first-time applicants was 52 percent overall. The passing rate for the 3,048 applicants repeating the examination was 36 percent overall. 

Congratulations to those who passed.

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The February 2013 Bar Exam Results: The MBE

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We have seen from how the MBE has “shaken” out for the February 2013 bar exam.

The average raw score for the MBE subjects is:

Evidence:  19.03 out of 33 

Const. Law:  19.17 out of 33

Property:  19.63 out of 33

Contracts:  20.06 out of 34

Criminal Law/Pro:  20.07 out of 33

Torts:  21.25 out of 34

I have put the average raw score in order of hardest to easiest.  As we can see this February, 2013, the hardest subjects were evidence and constitutional law; the easiest subjects were criminal law/procedure and torts.  It is a surprise to see constitutional law as one of the harder subjects.  In addition, from what my students told me,  property did not have many future interests or mortgage questions, which was a great relief to many and pushed property into the middle range of the subjects (when it usually the hardest subject).

The average range for all the subjects is from 58% to 62.5%.   These are the numbers you should be reaching when you practice your MBE questions.

It appears that the scaled score this year fits within the usual range of 12-15 extra points, depending on where you fall for the raw score.  That is consistent with prior years.

If you are taking the MBE again, you will have to change your approach, strategy and preparation to pass.  Try a new approach with Bar Professors.  Our new cross training approach with concentration on factual distinctions in the MBE fact pattern versus the traditional method of legal extraction has increased many MBE repeat takers scores by as much as 20%.  Give yourself a fighting chance to pass the bar exam in your state by improving your MBE score.  Whether you are from North Carolina, Illinois, Wisconsin or any other state, Bar Professors can help you improve your MBE score.

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The February 2013 Bar Exam Results: Michigan, Rhode Island, New Jersey, Nevada, California

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For this week, it looks like we will see the bar exam results for February 2013 from Michigan, Rhode Island, New Jersey, Nevada and California coming out.

We know that Nevada’s bar exam results come out on Thursday, the 16^th, and California’s bar exam results are coming out on Friday, the 17^th.  New Jersey’s bar exam results will also be released on Friday, the 17^th.   Rhode Island’s bar exam results will also be released on Friday, the 17^th.

We still don’t know the date that Michigan will be released.  But judging by the anxiety I am seeing from the students taking Michigan, hopefully, it will be released early this week.

Good luck to those who are waiting. Try to relax – don’t let your anxiety get the best of you.

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Repeat Bar Exam Takers: The Myths and Reality of Passing

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Most law graduates are under the false impression that the more times you take a state bar exam the greater your changes are to passing

In fact, it is just the opposite. The more times you sit for a state bar, you decrease your chances of being successful.

The statistical proof is clear and convincing that repeat takers continuously do poorer on the bar exam than first time takers. Here are the hard facts:

The Pennsylvania February 2013 bar results indicate that the first time takers passed at an 72%. The second time takers pass rate was 57%, the third time taker pass rate was 53% and the fourth time takers passed at 24%.

In Texas, for the February 2013 bar exam results, first time takers passed at an 81% rate, while repeat takers passed at a 36% pass rate.

In Massachusetts, for the February 2013 bar results, first time takers passed at a 73% rate, second time takers passed at a 62%, third time takers passed at a 39% rate, fourth time takers passed at a 40% rate and 5^th time takers or more passed at a 15% rate.

These statistical repeat taker numbers are a clear representation that repeat takers, on an average, only pass the bar exam at about a 33% rate. Obtaining a bar exam tutor should be the number one goal for all repeat takers.

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The February 2013 Bar Exam Results: Maryland Bar Exam Results Have Been Released

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Maryland released its bar exam results at 4:30 pm on Friday.  The Board of Bar Examiners has listed the pass/fail list by numbers.  Congratulations to those who passed. 

Interestingly, and rarely seen by a state’s board of bar examiners, is a mea culpa from Maryland.  Apparently, an error made in question 2, just about blew up the whole question for the applicants.  Here is what they said:  “Question 2 of the February 2013 General Bar Exam, testing Maryland Civil Procedure, was found to be confusing because of a conflict between the Question as printed (which referred to procedures in "District Court") and the Extract (which referred to procedures in "Circuit Court"). Because of this conflict, the Board, in the interest of fairness assigned the highest raw score of 6 for that question.”   Can you imagine making that kind of mistake – and the students trying to answer it by using federal law when the examiners wanted local law? Now, that was a pretty grievous mistake.  Perhaps they should have thrown the entire question out.  It makes us wonder how many mistakes are out there and the states’ board of bar examiners haven’t admitted it?  

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The February 2013 Bar Exam Results: Texas, New York, and Indiana Bar Exam Results Are Released; Maryland to Come Out Today

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Texas has released the names of the successful applicants.  The overall pass rate was 74.2%.  The first time taker rate was 80.7% and the repeat taker rate was 63.6%.

The pass rates of the law schools are:

Baylor:  first time taker rate  95.6%; repeat taker rate: 83.3%

St. Mary’s:  first time taker rate 75%; repeat taker rate: 66.7%

South Texas:  first time taker rate  85.2%; repeat taker rate: 58.3%

SMU:  first time taker rate  73.1%; repeat taker rate: 80 %

TSU:  first time taker rate  66.7%; repeat taker rate:  63%

U of Houston:  first time taker rate  89.7 %; repeat taker rate: 70.4%

U of Texas:  first time taker rate   86.4%; repeat taker rate: 66.7%

Texas Tech:  first time taker rate  95.5%; repeat taker rate: 63.6%

TWU:  first time taker rate  88.7 %; repeat taker rate: 66.7 %

Out of State:  first time taker rate  65.8%; repeat taker rate: 57.9%

The New York bar exam results for February 2013 has released the names of the successful applicants for public lookup today.

The statistics are: 

New York ABA Schools - First Time Takers 73%;
Out-of-State ABA Schools - First Time Takers 76%;
All ABA Graduates - First Time Takers 75%;
 Foreign-Educated - First Time Takers 36%;
 All Foreign-Educated 30%; All First Time Takers 64% and
 All Candidates (First Time Takers & Repeaters) 50%

The Indiana bar exam results for February 2013 has also released  the names of the successful applicants, on its website.  The statistics have yet to be released.

Maryland will release its bar exam results at 4:30 pm today.

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The February 2013 Bar Exam Results: New York Bar Exam Results Are Released

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The New York bar exam results for February 2013 has been released for private lookup.  Congratulations to those who have passed.

Public lookup will be released tomorrow.  As soon as we got the statistics, we will post them here. 

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The February 2013 Bar Exam Results: New York Bar Exam Results Will Be Out Tomorrow

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The New York BOLE has updated their front page with this announcement:

The results for the February 2013 New York State bar examination will be released on May 2, 2013. The results will be sent to the candidates by email to the address on file with the Board. Please note that there may be some delays in receiving the email depending on volume and security issues with individual email providers. The results will also be available to the candidates by using the private lookup link that will be available on this site on May 2. The public list of the names of the passing candidates will be available on this site on May 3, 2013.

NO FURTHER INFORMATION REGARDING THE TIME OF RELEASE IS AVAILABLE. DO NOT CALL THE BOARD OFFICE.

Good luck to everyone waiting for their bar exam results from New York.  I’m sure you can’t wait until tomorrow brings good news.

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