[blindlaw] Studying for the bar

[McCarthy, Jim]

Hello John,
I am something of a fellow traveler.  One of the challenges I have found is that all of my files are pdf.  That is not necessarily such a bad thing for reading the outlines, and besides, I have saved most of them out to text in order to carry in my bookport and on my Braille note.

I tried to save my MBE sample questions as text though and the text gets rather confused.  Parts of questions overlap with each other making something of a mess.  The problem with the MBE questions as PDF is that every computer I use is rather slow moving around the document.  When I switch to my answer sheet, a simple word document, it takes more time than I would like and then when I switch back to the pdf, I am often at the top of the page rather than on the question I last completed.  This would not be so bad if the computer responded more quickly to the movement commands so I could get to the right question.  All this is to say that I might understand your frustration.

Nevertheless, I think that it is important to keep dong the MBE questions.  This is the third time I have studied for the bar and everyone has included the MBE.  I think that knowing the law alone will not help you improve your scores.  Knowing how the law can be tested in a multiple choice context is almost as important and the mind needs the practice to get that locked in.  The bar review class I am taking stresses that question practice is more important than reading the law.  I am tending to agree if one reviews the answers to learn why wrong answers are wrong.  There is quite a bit of law in those reviews anyway so that helps, I think.  Those are my thoughts on this torturous subject.
Jim McCarthy

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Hello to those of you have endured the difficulties of the bar exam. I am
not doing as well as I would like on the BARBRI practice questions and it
takes a considerable amount of time to toggle back and forth between the
questions and my answer sheet and then to read all of the explanations of
the answers afterward. My question is do you think it would be time better
spent to stay on the audio lectures and the BARBRI outlines?

Take care,

John