McLaughlin
Multistate Course
Written Material
Volume 1
619 Pages
Five complete 200 question multistate exams and one 100 question multistate exam of questions officially released by the National Conference of Bar Examiners and reproduced under license.
July 1998 Released Exam
July 1991 Released Exam
February 1991 Release Exam
Exam 1 compiled from Questions released in 1992
Exam 2 compiled from questions released in 1992
The one hundred questions 2006 MBE
Volume 2
560 Pages
Lectures notes from the lectures on the governing law of Criminal Law, Evidence and Contracts and from the Criminal Law, Evidence and Contracts questions
from each of the five exams.
Volume 3
632 Pages
Lectures notes from the lectures on the governing law of Property, Torts and Constitutional Law and from the Property,
Torts and Constitutional Law questions from each of the five exams.
CD Roms
2 CD Roms containing 68 hours of audio enhanced powerpoint slide lectures.
You can listen the audio enhanced introductory Powerpoint lecture without obligation by using the activation button
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The price for the course is $300
Combined Multistate Course and Massachusetts Essay Course $575
Order the course by check payable to Walter McLaughlin
Walter McLaughlin
49 Hill Rd #59
Belmont MA 02478
waltermclaughlin@yahoo.com
phone 617 484 1114
Upon receipt of check, material will be shipped via UPS on the next day.
Description of the Course
The Multistate course is based upon the course which I have taught at Suffolk Law School for the past 9 years and the experience I have gained in preparing
students for the Mulitstate Bar Examination since it was first administered in 1972. The course is designed to assure that you answer more than 60% of the questions
correctly to achieve a passing score on the multistate portion of the exam. The multistate course provides 65 hours of audio enhanced powerpoint lectures on two CD ROMs.
After this introductory lecture, there are six classes in each of the 6 multistate subjects, and two classes dealing with multistate techniques.
The first of the classes in each subject reviews the essential substantive law in that subject. The remaining five classes in each subject review approximately
33 questions on that subject from the five complete multistate examinations of questions released by the National Conference of Bar Examiners.
Finally there is a discussion of the questions of the recently released 2006 MBE. The course is comprehensive, discussing both the substantive law and
approximately 183 released multistate questions in each of the multistate subjects, a total of 1100 questions.
How To Use The Material
The Substantive Law Of Multistate
The purpose of the course is to teach the substantive law tested on multistate so that you can apply it to correctly answer the questions on the multistate exam you will be taking.
Because the examiners are testing on a finite body of substantive law, a careful analysis of more than 1000 questions which have appeared on previous exams and have been released
by the examiners produces a compact body of black letter law which you must learn and apply. This governing law is presented concisely in a total of 142 pages.
The process of obtaining the governing law for each multistate subject is accomplished by extracting all of the principles of black letter law which have been controlled
the answers to released multistate questions. The lecture on governing law is the starting point in each subject. It should be reviewed either by lecture or in text format
before answering the multistate questions in each subject. Just before the exam you should commit the governing law to memory because you will need to recall it in detail
when answering the questions on your multistate exam.
Listen to Constitutional Law Substantive lecture.
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The Question Classes
Knowing the governing law is not enough. To accomplish this second goal the course reviews 1100 multiple choice questions approximately 183 per subject.
To accomplish this second goal, the course reviews 1000 multiple choice questions which have been asked on previous exams. In those questions, approximately 166 per subject,
the examiners have covered almost all of the issues of substantive law which are testable in the multiple choice format. Those issues of substantive law will govern more questions
than the 60% which you need to answer correctly.
These questions are divided into five two hundred question multistate exams, three of which were actually administered and the remaining two were compiled for additional questions released
by the multistate examiners.
There is one question class for each subject on each of the five multistate exams. Before listening to a question class, you should answer the questions to be discussed.
All of these questions appear in the purple question volume. For test 1 and test 2 the questions are arranged by subject matter and you can access the questions in the order which
they are discussed in the lecture. For example, criminal law questions are the first 33 questions in each test. Because it is important to understand how the governing law controls
the answer to each question, the relevant portion of the governing law is discussed in the context of the questions. After you have prepared the questions and determined which ones
you have answered incorrectly, you should spend additional time on those questions to determine why you missed it. The two most common reasons are lack of knowledge of the substantive
law or a mistake in reading and understanding the questions and choice. Learn from your mistakes so that you do not miss a similar question if it appears on the exam which you will be taking.
Taking Practice Exams
With respect to the questions asked on the February 1991, July 1991 and July 1998 exams, you have two alternatives for preparing the questions before taking the class. You can access the question in the order which they will be taken up in class by printing the questions for that particular subject or by looking at the questions in the lecture notes. The second alternative is to prepare the questions by taking the entire exam in two, three-hour segments. That format is presented in the purple book. There are four advantages which you will obtain by taking the one or more of these exams in their entirety under exam conditions.
The 2006 MBE
In 2006 the multistate examiners released a 100 question practice exam and also released detailed answers to all of the questions. Both the exam and the answers appear in the multistate question volume. Lectures covering the questions on this exam are included on the second CD ROM. This should be the last exam you take as part of your preparation.
Avoiding Panic At The Time Of The Bar Exam
The best way to cure exam day jitters is to practice on exams which closely resemble the actual exam. Sitting with an officially released exam for 6 hours is the best way to
become familiar with the tasks you are expected to perform.
Timing
By taking one of the released multistate exams, you can determine if you can complete 100 questions in three hours. Since these examinations are approximately the same length as the real examination, you will know whether you will have a timing problem on the actual examination. If you do not succeed in completing each session of the exam in three hours, you should continue until you have completed all questions and note how much additional time you used, so that you know how much you will have to accelerate your pace during the actual exam. Techniques for coping with timing problems are discussed in the multistate techniques lecture.
Fatigue
The mental energy required to answer 200 multiple choice questions under stress on a high stakes examination in two three-our periods, with only a short lunch break produces fatigue in all candidates. You should measure your own level of fatigue by taking the practice examination under examination conditions. Fatigue will slow down the speed at which you can effectively process questions and is likely to impair your reading comprehension. Once you have experienced fatigue, should then devise your own measures to cope with it. Answering questions more quickly when you are fresh, being well rested on the exam day, and consuming energy food during the exam are time tested ways to cope.
Grading
When you have finished the exam, you should obtain your raw score using the answer key provided with the examination. Your raw score can then be scaled in accordance with the scaling applied when the examination was actually administered. The scoring conversion table is included in these materials. Since the equating process is designed to adjust scores, based upon the examinations difficulty, the actual multistate exam which you take will be scaled in exactly the same manner. You will know as soon as you have graded yourself, approximately where you stand, and can intensify your study program if your scaled score was below 135. The scaling bonus on the July 1998 exam at the critical pass-fail level was 18 points so that a raw score of 117 converts to a scaled score of 135.
Analyze the Results
In addition to computing your raw and scaled scores, you should analyze your results by subject so that you can direct your final study to the places where it is most fruitful. In particular, if your evidence or constitutional law scores were low, you can dramatically improve your score on the actual exam by learning the limited bodies of governing law tested in those subjects. Torts and criminal law scores can be greatly improved by learning the applicable governing law. Time spent on contracts and property at the end of the study cycle is less productive.
As part of your preparation, you should take at least one of the three released exams as a practice exam.
THE MECHANICS OF LISTENING TO THE LECTURES
There are two ways to listen to the lectures. You can open the Presenter folder on your CD ROM for each class, listen to an audio enhanced power point presentation and follow the
class with the lecture notes. In the alternative, you can simply listen to the lecture on the MP3 audio file and follow the lecture by referring to the lecture notes.
TIME NECESSARY TO COMPLETE THE COURSE AS A STAND-ALONE COURSE
If you are not taking only the Massachusetts Bar Examination, and are therefore taking only multistate portion of the McLaughlin Bar Review Course, you should allocate approximately
two weeks of full time study to adequately prepare for the multistate part of the examination. You should spend about two days on each multistate subject listening to three classes per day.
On the first day of each subject you should read the governing law, listen to that lecture and then prepare the questions in test 1 and test 2 and listen to those three lectures.
On the second day you should prepare the question classes from the three released exams. You should spend at least one day and perhaps two taking one or more of the released exams as practice exams.
Finally you should take the 2006 MBE and listen to the lecture which covers that exam.
32 DAY STUDY GUIDE AND MENTORING ARE BOTH AVAILABLE
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Mentoring is Avaiable
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