I will gradually refine how you might find what you are looking for on this site. In the meantime, just use the “Search” field with a precise term of interest (i.e. PMBR, Adaptibar, essays, etc.)
I started this blog in March of 2006, when I began seriously planning and studying for the July 2006 California Bar Exam. There are many posts that have comments and points about my study program, experience, and critique of some products and publications I used. Of course, these are all my personal opinions and in no way, shape or form definitive for anyone else, but me.
However, if they help you as you prepare for the Bar Exam–especially in California–great; and if they do not help you, I am sure they will do no harm.
Enjoy, and Good luck! I hope some of my mojo rubs off on you!
Farzin (Nick) Forooghi
Attorney-At-Law
I’m trying to figure out if all the questions on the MBE are as hard as the Advanced Drills from Bar/Bri? The intermediate questions are not so bad, but the Advanced Drills are killing me — should I be worried that I just did 20 Contracts Advanced and only got 50% right?
I have heard that the bulk of the questions on the MBE are more like the Intermediate Level. Can you clarify this at all for me?
CA Bar, by the way. Thanks!
By: Shy on June 21, 2007
at 5:32 pm
My experience was that the actual exam was comparative with–if at all–up to BarBri intermediate questions. I had a post on this issue where I commented how the BarBri questions are not as good as the answers they provide. But, in any case, I do not think doing 50% on the advanced questions is bad at all. They were ridiculously long. I honestly did not even do that many of them. I did all of the intermediates on BarBri and did most of the Blue book on PMBR, all of the Red book, and quite a lot of Adaptibar. Good luck.
By: farzin on June 22, 2007
at 2:14 pm
I agree , I just finished the advance questions and out of 17 questions, I missed 7, I was not sure what happened to my scores. After reading this, I will move on to PMBR and strategies.
thanks for the post.
By: Eve on June 26, 2007
at 10:33 am
my friend called barbri and asked what the breakdown was on the actual exam compared to barbri’s breakdown. the person on the phone said that (within each section) about 5-10 would be advanced questions, 2-3 introductory, and the rest intermediate. I know those aren’t solid numbers, but it’s at least comforting to know there aren’t that many advanced questions per section.
By: Salena on June 28, 2007
at 11:31 pm