Law Students

MPRE

By Steve Pirates

Many people have asked me recently, “Hey Steve, what are yo up to?”  My answer has generally been, “Finishing the Enrichment stuff up, writing my papers, editing my publication, working on law review, oh and studying for the MPRE a little.”  It seemed like a manageable system.

Then I took the MPRE.  Let’s just say that I lost the battle against ethics.*  Fortunately, everyone seems to feel the same way, so hopefully I did better than I thought, and also the curve is low.  Otherwise, I’m moving to Washington.  The worst part about the MPRE are the “pre-test” questions.  The MPRE is 60 questions long, but only 50 count.  You need to get about 70% right to feel assured of a passing score, so 35/50.  So you can only miss 15.  I think that I missed 20.  Now, if ten of those were out of the “pre-test” questions, then I’ll wind up with a 40/50 and be scott free.  But if I happened to get every single pre-test question right… well… then I’m screwed.

In five weeks, we’ll see how it all turned out.  But a part of me is already prepared for Nov. 7, 2010 MPRE II: Revenge of Ethics.

*and if you think that is what the MPRE is, you probably did as poorly as i.

Full post as published by Jolly Lawger on August 09, 2009 (boomark / email).