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May 06, 2009
multiple choice tips
If multiple choice is not your strong point or, even it is, you want to use every help available, check out the 200 old M-C questions available on-line through the National Conference of Bar Examiners.
If you are not taking the PMBR course nor the BarBri 5-day workshop, you really want to check this out.
NCBE has released two sets of 100 each, actually used questions - MBE Online Practice Exam 1 and 2. Each costs $26 for one year subscription.
You take the exam online. You can ask for only evidence or crim, etc. You can mix them up. You get computer feedback re your progress, along with annotations as to the correct answers and why-written by the same drafters who wrote the question. You can ask for only those questions you have missed in the past.
Both BarBri and PMBR either buy their questions from NCBE or make them up. Both make up the explanations. When using the NCBE Online exam, you are using the original source along with annotations from the actual drafters.
Prof. Schmitz says this is the best investment of $26 or 52 that there is in relation to the bar prep.
go to ncbex.org and look for MBE OnLine Practice exam.
Posted by Suzanne at 03:37 PM
Health insurance while studying for the bar
Will you have health insurance while studying for the bar? Your SIU health insurance should be good til 8/20, but you want to confirm this; we do not speak officially for the insurance office. For $130, you may use the health center through the summer. Check with the center as well.
If you do not have insurance through SIU or are not studying here, you may want to find some insurance for the summer. You do not want to have a case of sinus trouble, serious flu, allergy attack mid-way through the summer and let it set you back.
In the past the Rec Center has offered a deal (a lower fee for the 7 weeks you here) to those SIU grads studying here for the summer; the front office is looking into this and we will let you know. This has been a courtesy on the part of the Rec Center and one we have to ask about every year. Linda and Kristy head the effort so we will keep you posted.
Posted by Suzanne at 03:34 PM