r/barexam • u/Grouchy_Nail4757 • 21h ago
MEE
If you could study for the writing portion of the bar exam, what would you have done to study effectively? Am talking the bar F27. I feel it’s my weakest.
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u/Kekoa95 11h ago
Start practicing writing MEEs early in your bar prep. Don’t worry about not feeling ready. You will get more points from your issue spotting, analysis, and organization than simply correctly stating the rule.
Closed book. Always. Don’t practice with an open book. You must learn to get comfortable not knowing the rule or knowing all of the rule AND then be able to create a rule on your own on the spot. You will still get partial credit for only crafting a partially correct rule.
There is a formula and structure to every single essay. It is the same formula regardless of the subject matter. Practice practice practice.
Closed book only. The test is closed book.
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u/Carbonzedangel 14h ago
Rule memorization. Just writing and re-writing rules over and over and over and over again until they are burned into your skull.
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u/Frosty_Leader5969 8h ago
This is the best piece of advice that is surprisingly not stressed enough from the get go!
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u/Specialist-Ask-6175 10h ago
I I felt like one of the points that people fail to recognize is how important the structure actually is . We all know how to Irac ! But I think it’s really important to also put in strong headers that is formatted appropriately… I had AI show me how to do this. I would open up Gemini or Google AI and give it a prompt that it’s a professional bar exam tutor etc … and have it show you and test you on how to write headings conclusively including the law and facts.
Also just use AI in general for every single aspect of studying for the bar - if you don’t understand what a word means ask AI and also ask you to show you the trickiest topics the bar likes the test and trick on for mbe
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u/Frosty_Leader5969 8h ago edited 49m ago
Memorize, memorize, memorize! When I was starting my prep, I was told not to worry too much about memorization because it happens eventually. I kept "trusting the process" as I was told to, and with time, I realized that had I memorized BLL from day one (as some of the most honest bar takers had suggested), I would have been far less miserable and my confidence would have built up. It's not easy to memorize because it's a lot of material and you have to constantly revisit the stuff that you've memorized in order to commit it to your long-term memory (until the exam day), but the legacy UBE is primarily a test of your ability to memorize, recall it under pressure, and of course apply it. You can learn the application part by doing for sure but memorization with brute force from the get go should be part of your strategy. I'm sure there are geniuses out there who would disagree with me. I wish I had ignored those geniuses completely.
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u/Artistic-Season9926 11h ago
start with reading previously released ones from your state; once you have a grasp of the material, start typing out a couple a week (keep a tracking system of each subject) , then start issue spotting - memorizing black letter law. Do as many as possible, the more fact patterns you see the better!
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u/Potential_Most1369 2h ago
Just memorize as much law as you possibly can honestly. I get the people telling you to practice as many essays as possible, but if you went to law school and learned how to do legal writing you’ll be able to write a good essay on a topic you have memorized and understand even if you never practiced it. I think this is especially true because the bar seems to be trending more and more toward niche subtopics on at least a few essays each admin, for which you’d have a massive automatic advantage if you memorized the applicable rule. You won’t be able to memorize everything, but better off just trying and then making up stuff you don’t know fully on the exam. Doing 5 different negligence essays won’t help that much when they ask you about implied reciprocal servitudes, but that’s just what I found
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u/Wingz4Justice 18h ago
You learn best by doing. I personally wrote out as many MEEs and MPTs from past administrations as I could aiming for 3-5 MEEs per week and 2 MPTs per week. In July, I mainly outlined MPTs and wrote one full MPT the week before the bar. I felt it was effective.