Passing the Bar
Professor Vernellia Randall

Strategies and Tactics

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The entire section is based on Michael Josepheson, Evaluation and Grading in Law School, AALS Section on Teaching (1984).

 
Remember who will be tripped up on Multiple Choice Questions
bulletPanickers
bulletPeople operating by instinct
bulletPeople who are unprepared and don't know the law

 

Panickers
bulletinhibits memory from operating
bulletfail to read carefully

 

People operating by instinct
bullet designed to apply legal principles to factual situations in a rational discipline manner
bulletinstinct will cause you to:
bulletoverlook stated facts
bulletlet emotion take precedent over reasoning

People who are unprepared and don't know the law

 

 
 
 

 

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[ Overview of Multiple Choice Questions ] [ Recognizing Distracters and Foils ] [ Play the Right Role! ] [ Strategies and Tactics ] [ Analyzing  Multiple Choice Questions ] [ Analyzing Responses ] [ How Options Can Be Wrong ] [ How to Guess Intelligently ] [ Taking the Multple Choice Test ] [ Varieties in the Form of the Question ] [ Varieties in the Nature of the Question ]
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[ How to Take Multiple Choice ] [ Right Result - Right Reason ] [ Monitoring MBE Exam Score ] [ MBE Practice Sheet ]


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