MBE: Beginning Your Campaign to Pass the Bar Exam

by Keith Elkin

Overview

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:

• Teaches bar exam strategy
• Analogizes studying for the bar exam to running for President by explaining the relative worth of the categories of law tested.
• 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.
• Offers approaches to organize the law for efficient study.
• Highlights common errors at-risk bar exam candidates make.
• Explains how one may simultaneously prepare for the MBE and state essay questions.

• Active Learning Exercises
• Explains concept of actively engaging with fact patterns and provides numerous application exercises.
• Teaches students how to solve problems by focusing on at least one highly tested category in each MBE subject.

• Detailed Examples & Explanations
• Teaches students how to make the best use of practice questions.
• Provides drills designed to systematically improve test-taking skills.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780735509962
Publisher:	Wolters Kluwer Law & Business
Publication date:	03/30/2011
Series:	Emanuel Bar Review Series
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.70(d)

Table of Contents

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

i. Negligence

ii. Hearsay

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

1. Constitutional Law

2. Contracts

3. Criminal Law

4. Evidence

5. Real Property

6. Torts

D. Correct Answers for Wrong Answer Exercise

Chapter Five: Conclusion