Crim law benchmark

I’m feeling more optimistic by the day (although I was never feeling particularly pessimistic). Tonight, I did my first set of 50 crim law questions, and just like with contracts last night, I wound up with a 70% (35/50). Surprisingly, one of my two weakest sub-topics was “constitutional protection of accused persons,” (the other being “general principles” – yeah, that’s a helpful description). You’d think that I would have been strong on that Constitutional protection business…

Regardless, it was nice to have focused on crim law (a subject I enjoy and am interested in) tonight rather than last night’s contracts, which I hate. And despite getting the exact same number of questions correct each night, it felt completely different – the contracts questions felt like a chore and time was just dragging, whereas the crim law questions felt relatively fun and I finished without feeling like it was taking all night.

In theory, I love having resolved not to take BAR/BRI, for a number of reasons. But, I must admit, when it comes right down to the reality of it, I think I’m going to wind up at least a little bit concerned when the time comes and everybody else is doing BAR/BRI all the time and I’m not. Then again, why should I feel that way? As long as I’m putting forth a concerted effort to study the materials I need to review, I shouldn’t feel any more concerned than if I were doing BAR/BRI…

See, this is what market monopoly does to people… curses!

They say that “nobody amjurs the MBE,” (CALI-ing the MBE just doesn’t have the same ring to it, does it?) and that aiming for anything over 70 or 75% is overkill – but the more points you earn on the MBE, the fewer you need on the essays and the performance test. So, why not maximize your points wherever you can?