Posted By on 25 Nov 2009 12:56 AM
I'm a first time bar taker and I've been trying to solve the PMBR multistate workbook from 2006, and I find that I get about 50% of the answers wrong. What can I do to improve my scores besides doing more questions? Is it really that hard? Also, what should I be aiming to score in order to pass?

Posted By on 25 Nov 2009 10:04 AM
I used PMBR red and blue books that I got for the July '08 bar, which was BEFORE the format change. But really, I honestly don't think the format change is anything more than eliminating multiple questions for one hypo scenario and the pick "I, II, but not III" kind of questions.

PMBR was the most impressive to me compared to Adaptibar and MicroMash. I used all of them. See the prior thread on my dissertation of that story.

Take the 3 day PMBR program as that lecture contains some very good tips on how to learn to recognize the tricks the NCBE play on you to get you to choose the obvious but wrong answer.

I think PMBR may have an online version that you may be entitled to use, if you bought the books and lecture from them instead of used.

If you can get 65% to 75% right on PMBR questions, you'll do just fine. I got 147 and 156 on my prior two bar exams before passing this time, so I don't know my last score.

I'd stick with PMBR, especially if they have an online version now. If you can do PMBR, you can do well on the real bar exam. If you use easy questions like Adaptibar, you might do just fine by being right in the middle of the bell curve. I'd rather be on top.

Jeff