Interesting Info: Ny Bar Exam Results

Keep in mind that this summary is not perfect and that some unrepeated issues could be partially answered by other “repeated” issues, but I separated them to reflect the actual issue.

You should read or listen to the exams for at least the last five years to see how the fact patterns are presented and what constitutes a good answer in the eyes of the NY bar examiners.

The NYBOLE recycles the same issues on the NY essays.

I have decided to update the NY Essay Frequency Analysis MASTER outline for the July 2008 New York bar exam.

At the bar exam, while most people barely finished, I finished well over 30+ minutes early for each session and got a 157 raw.

To be honest, I only started reading my MBE Rules Outline about two weeks before the bar exam .

I suggest you take the MASTER document and mark every topic heading from the immediately preceding BAR Exam as orange.

The passing score for Florida is a scaled score of 8 Here’s what some of our students told us within hours of completing their bar exams.

Results for the July bar exams will not be announced until mid-November as in past years.

If I decide to study for another bar exam, I will choose your course before any other, and will heartily recommend it to all.

When I got tired of studying, I did multiple choice questions, so you can tell I was tired of studying quite often.

Looking at the Table of Contents for the 95-05 NY Essay Exams in MASTER, you can see patterns based on the popularity of certain topics.

In the November 2007 issue of The Bar Examiner, NCBE strongly recommended providing to examinees only the MBE total scaled score, which is not affected by the difficulty of the questions on the particular exam.

While the answers were obviously good enough to be considered model answers by the NYBOLE, keep in mind that some parts of an answer may be wrong law; in doing MASTER 2008, I found mistakes and misclassifications in MASTER 2005, so keep in mind not all topics are accurate; and the analysis discussed here and in MASTER is based on past exams.

I took the MBE Annotated Preview 2006 Exam in April 200 I then examined the score pattern - this exam of 100 questions IS NOT key-balanced .

NCBE is offering a 100-question, annotated online practice exam using questions drawn from recent MBEs. After MASTER was compiled, I compared/cataloged/counted each topic of each essay of each exam from July 1995 to Feb 200 The perfection of security instruments re-appeared after appearing on the February 2007 exam despite having never appeared on any prior exam essay from July 1995 to July 200

I spent my lunch hour eating lunch and reading the Torts and Wills sections of MASTER.

I can guarantee you that there will be questions on the exam you will not be able to answer - accept that fact and move on.

According to the description you can take the exam in either timed or untimed sittings, and you will receive feedback on your answers, including annotations and a customized score report.

If you plan to listen to the entire exam continuously, download the “All Questions” mp Taking the exam will at least give you the experience of taking the exam and you may get lucky and have questions you are familiar with.

The purpose of reading the answers is to learn how the issues/rules you’ve memorized apply to the fact pattern, which are slightly modified on the real exam.

I didn’t see remainders on the NY essays, and it could only be one or two questions on the MBE, so why bother.

A 142 scaled means you scored 710 out of 1,000 points on the NY scale.

I found that the answers for the three released MBE exams are evenly distributed.

You will be surprised to see how much you remember from MASTER once you are in the exam.

Take an old MBE exam and see how you do, and compare it to my score to establish an estimated MBE score at the exam.

Mandatory CLE - For each of the first two years after your admission to the New York Bar, you must complete 16 hours of Continuing Legal Education.

“After speaking with several students of other bar review courses, I feel like I made a good decision by taking your course.

Operating under the auspices of the New York State Court of Appeals, the New York State Board of Law Examiners is responsible for administering the bar examination to candidates seeking admission to practice law in the State of New York.

The New York Board of Law Examiners published the exam results in the New York Times, and test takers would line up at newsstands to grab a copy of the first edition.

“The July 2008 Exam private results lookup will be available online Friday November 14 2008 at 9:00 AM.