Entry 15-02.17.47 in Book Two: The Fifteenth Year of the Third Millennium of the Common Era

::heavy breathing:: 8 am today… is one week. One week from 8am today, I will be at the start of my second attempt to pass the MPT and the MEE. One week. Ugh, so filled with fear and excitement and relief and apprehension!

I want to say, tracking my study on here has been good for me. I find it easy to give “generalized impressions of hard work” in real life and people have always given me the benefit of the doubt on hard work. But here? Being specific and not judged… I hold myself to a standard of honesty and openness about my studying. So, the process of sharing it all here has definitely helped me to really accept that I have been working hard.

Started up today at 7 am. 90 Multiple Choice Torts Questions, 94 Multiple Choice Real Property Questions. Tried to keep my mind from thinking of other things during the process but honestly? My mind wandered a bit trying to decide how much I want to push things this week. I mean… there are still several things I could/should do to officially complete the Bar Review class. But I can’t help but think that… maybe, just maybe… instead of completing the class, I should just focus on studying. If that sounds incongruous, I’ll try to explain. If I want to complete the class in full, there are a few more 6 hour simulated exam sessions with review videos. And yeah… maybe taking the full test a few more times will be awesome for me so that come test day, I don’t get exhausted and miss something. But… I’m trying to weigh the issue: Test Training v. Rule Studying. Because… not getting exhausted on the test seems like it wouldn’t be as valuable if I didn’t know the test materials to begin with.

Looking back over my work, I have answered all of the Textbook MBE Multiple Choice Questions in many categories. Yes, even the questions that were not assigned. Out of 175 Contract questions, I answered 62% correctly. Out of 175 Civil Procedure questions, I answered 49% correctly. Out of 175 Torts questions, I answered 64% correctly. Out of 175 Real Property questions, I answered 45% correctly. That means, as of today, I have answered at least 700 MBE questions and answered correctly 55% of the time. (Post Entry Rant Related to This, if Interested).

Then, as much as I wanted to keep going, I promised myself I would spend time with humans today and not just books & computers. So it was off to Buffalo Wild Wings. It was a great time… I just hope I didn’t monopolize the conversation! It has been so long since I had an actual conversation with another person that… I do worry about that. It was a good time. It was nice to not worry about the exam for a few hours. Then back home for Face Off with the wife. And after that? I think I am going to tackle a few more Essay practices. I have yet to pass a single Essay practice!

Oddly, as I finished studying today- these songs popped into my head:

RANT
I will admit that the first Real Property question of my day stumped me. Completely, thoroughly, and frustratingly. Thus, instead of waiting until the end of the quiz to discover the answer, my academic curiosity demanded a Teaching Moment to work me through my confusion. Here is, word-for-word, what the answer key says “In this actual Multistate example, all four answer choices are technically incorrect. However, by process of elimination, (D) is the ‘best of the worst.’ Thus, choice (D) is the best answer, even though the property right contained is misstated. ” Are you SHITTING ME?! And this was on an actual MBE exam?! Those motherfucking bastards! On a test whose goal is to protect the legal consumer from incompetent lawyers… you actually put a question where ALL AVAILABLE ANSWERS were technically wrong?! How does that protect the legal consumer? Wouldn’t the purpose of the exam be better served if at least one of the available answer choices were technically correct so that potential lawyers answering the question could demonstrate legal competency? I mean, I understand when test takers try to hide the right answer or make the question tricky… but to not even include a correct answer to chose and still use that as part of a licensing assessment?! These people are monsters! (Honestly, I was so fuming that this is the kind of assholery bullshit that determines my entire future, it took everything in me and a two hour break to calm down enough to regain focus to finish the exam!)