They write out a full essay, including all the rules and analysis. They get paid a stipend (which is likely far less than what they make at their jobs).Īfter the bar exam is taken, a group of graders get together and take the same essay you just took. Here is a rough review of the process the graders go through when grading your exam.īar exam graders are attorneys who have passed the bar and sign-up to be a grader. The easier you make it on him, the better. He doesn’t have a lot of time and needs to be very efficient and methodical in his reading. You will be in a very similar situation to what the grader has to do, after spending a full day at work, coming home to his family, and is now trying to meet his deadline of reading 100 bar exam essays this week. Now, if you really want to feel like a bar exam grader, repeat the exercise dozens of times at 10:00pm. For a grader to get through your essay in this short amount of time, it will need to be very readable. But, hopefully you will see how CRUCIALLY IMPORTANT it is your essays are structured, organized, readable, and use headings (that topic is for a different post, coming soon). Keep in mind, the exam answer you just read is a ‘model passing’ answer, and believe me when I say this, it is an amazingly well-written answer! You don’t need to be even close to writing like this to pass. See, it doesn’t actually take that long to read an answer. That’s a lot of time to put into the exam, and how much time do you think the graders will invest into reading your essays? About three to five minutes per essay, at most.Īt least once before the exam, it’s a good idea to try the exercise of putting yourself in the shoes of the person who will be holding your fate:Ģ) Click here to go to a sample essay answer on the calbar website I got a 149/200 on the simulated MBE so I don’t know how worried I should be about that but the MPT just seems so nebulous and unfamiliar, I’m worried that if I go in the wrong direction or something I could just bomb that whole section.You will spend close to two months, take dozens of practice essays, and spend a good two or three days in the bar exam.
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How harshly is the MPT graded on the actual bar exam? I’d like to think I know how to do this stuff as it’s been my job for the past 6 and a half years but the MPT has totally punked me out. The feedback was very strange because it criticized things that I think I did well but ignored other stuff. My answer hit almost all the points under the rubric. I wrote an enourmous detailed submission and made sure to address every single fact given (It was obvious that there were basically no superfluous facts) and analyzed everything under the applicable rules provided.
I don’t understand the feedback in the context of what I feel were the strengths and weaknesses of my essay. I got a 3/6, They said I “need to include more detail” from the fact pattern. I felt like I hit every single possible point of analysis, even based on the rubric they provided, even though some of the minor points I didn’t have huge colorful paragraphs on. Reading the feedback, I don’t get the feeling that they actually evaluated my answer. My first graded essay I got a 5/6 and the grader said it was “close to a perfect score.” The second one I got a 6/6 and the grader said I hit “most or all of the relevant points.” But when I self-graded that essay, I thought I totally whiffed one of the three sub parts. Now, I’m completely thrown off by how they’re grading these since I’ve been studying for Colorado. I remember the first time I took the Barbri course, I got torn apart on the early graded essays I can’t remember about the later ones but I don’t think I did super hot on those either. Now I’m prepping to take the Colorado UBE in February.
I passed, and I’ve been practicing law ever since. The first time, I took it in 2014 in Florida in July after graduating law school (I used Barbri to prep). So I’m taking the bar exam for the second time.
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