Re: November 2005 MPRE

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I'm glad someone else found the November MPRE difficult. I did
the BarBri review course and thought that I had looked at all
the possible type questions to the MPRE, but even this exam
stumped me!! Hope they scale our marks up!!

I'm taking the LA bar in Feb so now I've got to concentrate on
that....

On 11/04/05, NoWorries wrote:
> I took the MPRE today as well and I agree that it was
> tricky. But worry not, the passing raw score will be low
> this time as the unanimous voice I heard about the MPRE
> today was that it was hard. Let's just hope for the best.
> Oh, I agree with you for the rest of your posting.
>
>
> On 11/04/05, JoeStanley wrote:
>> I just took the MPRE, and I thought it was really
>> difficult. I've passed three bar exams on the first try
>> (NY, NJ & CT), but this last MPRE leaves me wondering if
>> I'll have to take it again. I've been practicing for 13
>> years in NY & NJ and took the July exam for Connecticut.
> I
>> studied for the MPRE and thought I knew the rules, but the
>> questions were all subtle gradations with a close choice
>> between two answers. I just want to rant a little: The
>> people who put this exam together are jerks. In the real
>> world you only have to know the basic rules, because if
> you
>> are faced with an ambiguous situation, you look up the
>> actual rule or call the jurisdictions' ethics hotline and
>> get an opinion. So they ought to be testing the basic
> rules
>> with straight forward fact patterns. This exam was full
> of
>> BS and if I flunked I'm gonna complain (as if it would do
>> any good). Anyway, that's my rant. Thanks for
>> listening. --Joe.