Strategies & Tactics for the MBE (Multistate Bar Exam) [Paperback]

Steve Emanuel (Author), Kimm Alayne Walton (Author)

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Strategies and Tactics for the MBE is packed with the most valuable advice you can find on how to analyze MBE questions. You get details on how to handle each MBE subject, specific step-by-step strategies for analyzing different question types...how subtle differences in wording can completely change the meaning of an answer...how to "reword" questions in your mind to make them easier to analyze. <p class="copymedium"> With Strategies and Tactics you also get a full-length, 200 question practice MBE, as well as over 350 additional questions broken down by subject. Before each subject, you get detailed advice on how to handle MBE questions on that subject, and how to focus your studies on the most popular - and trickiest - MBE topics. For every question, you get a fully-explained answer that analyzes, in detail, every answer option. After all, it's just as important to know why you chose a wrong answer - and how to avoid doing it again! - as it is to know why the correct response was the best choice. With Strategies & Tactics for the MBE, you'll enter the MBE with the skills to succeed...and the confidence to excel. </p> <p class="copymedium"> Key Points About this Book: </p> <ul> <li class="copymedium"> Covers all the new MBE specifications tested on the MBE as of July 2003 </li> <li class="copymedium"> Every one of the over 550 questions in this book represents an actual question asked on a past MBE </li> <li class="copymedium"> This edition was personally prepared by Steve Emanuel to reflect the most recently - released MBE questions and the most up-to-date substantive legal rules </li> <li class="copymedium"> Strategies and Tactics is written under the assumption that you haven't seen any of the substantive law on the MBE since your first year in law school. For instance, if an answer addresses the M'Naghten Rule or quantum Meruit or vested remainders, the answer will refresh your memory for what those concepts mean before it analyzes how they relate to the question </li> <li class="copymedium"> The answers in Strategies and Tactics don't quote long, convoluted passages of codes and treatises. Instead, you get explanations in simple, easy-to-understand language. </li> <li class="copymedium"> A lot of Multistate guides claim to give you in-depth analysis of answers. Open this book to an answer section, and compare it to any other Multistate book...and you'll see that Strategies and Tactics is the only book that gives you the detailed insight you need </li> </ul> <p> </p>

Product Details

• Paperback: 628 pages
• Publisher: Aspen Publishers, Inc.; 4 edition (December 31, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0735558728
• ISBN-13: 978-0735558724
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.3 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
• Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #67,693 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great way to jump start your MBE study, July 2, 2006

By	SmrtnSass (CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Strategies & Tactics for the MBE (Multistate Bar Exam) (Paperback)

This book provides a strategic way to take MBE questions with an intro of what topics are tested within each subject and then an exam tactics section of what to look for in the questions. Then there are detailed answers for each question so you can look to see why the wrong answers are not correct. I would recommend this to anyone preparing for the Bar Exam, my bar study professor recommended to begin using this book our last semester of school before we actually began heavily studying for the exam, it was good advice!

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Must-Have, June 29, 2008

By	sayock - See all my reviews (VINE VOICE)

This review is from: Strategies & Tactics for the MBE (Multistate Bar Exam) (Paperback)

Contrary to what another reviewer said, this book doesn't have two full-length exams, or at least not the edition I have (2005). It has the AM and PM sections of a full-length exam.

Other reviews also mention the tips in this book, but the real value in this book is all the actual MBE questions from past exams as well as the explanation to those questions (including the full-length exam). I have found that the barbri and PMBR questions and answer choices are noticeably different much of the time from these past questions and their answer choices. Both companies make their questions long, and barbri's are unnecessarily long. But most actual questions are short. Barbri's explanations are also long and repetitive, whereas the explanations in this book are more concise. Most importantly, these questions are harder than the ones you're doing from barbri and even PMBR. Even the majority of the questions in the one barbri book that has past MBE questions in it are easier in comparison. If you can understand the questions/explanations in this book, you will be prepared for the bar.

As for the tips, I have found around two or three extremely valuable ones in each section that I've read so far. This is not to say the majority of the tips/writing in the book is helpful or that you can use this book without barbri/subject outlines. But the helpful tips that I got out of this book are ones that barbri doesn't spell out and I wouldn't have figured out on my own. Those tips alone really will raise your score, because you will get at least a few more questions right in every single subject from them.

I agree that this book is pricey, but if you can find a cheaper copy somewhere then that's your best bet because you need this book.

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Comprehensive for Multistate review, February 21, 2007

By	Charles Vincent (USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Strategies & Tactics for the MBE (Multistate Bar Exam) (Paperback)

I have yet to take the MBE, but my initial take on this book is very positive. Although I think it could do a better job of giving a more detailed summary of each of the sections of the test, it does have roughly 50 multiple choice for each section, and each answer (right or wrong) does spell out the black letter law. It also has a full 200-question MBE at the end of the book. To supplement PMBR/Barbri (or even supplant one of them), this may be the best option. For the price, I believe it's money well spent (and what's another forty on top of a hundred thousand anyway?).