What are you doing this weekend?

I'll be flunking the MPRE. 

I have reserved for myself Friday to study for the professional responsibility exam.  My plan is simple: take the minimalist approach to studying for the MPRE, in hopes of failing badly enough to scare me into NOT failing the Bar.  I may purchase the rules, I may read the rules, I may even read the comments attached to those rules.  But I'm not going to any classes, and I'm not listening to any damn tapes.  I'm content just relying on my innate sense of professional responsibility.  It's gotten me this far. However far that is.

Like I said, I'll be flunking the MPRE.

Question: Which has the least relevance:  The MPRE, The Bar Exam, or the Wonderlic?

Comments

[thenambypamby]

Obviously, the Bar Exam. We all know that Vince Young kicked the shit out of that one.

[Tbag]

I'm right there with ya. Fail fail fail. It's on like Donkey Kong.

It's only 50 questions, how bad can it be?

[yep]

I wish I could respond that the Wonderlic is the most irrelevant of the three tests--as it is the least likely to have any real bearing on any of your lives. However, after reading this blawg, I would be inclined to say both the MPRE and the Bar Exam are the least relevant as most of the writers and/or commentators have less chance of passing either the MPRE or Bar and would, therefore, be better off training for the NFL. Just kidding, I just hate Mondays.

[IrishLaw]

No matter how little you prepare for the MPRE, you can't help but pass it. It's the equivalent of not getting an A in a "Law and . . ." class - it takes a buttload of effort to fail. In fact, I think the Devil and Saddam went 1, 2 on the last exam. Use the "Three Bears" approach: one answer is immoral, one answer is too moral, and one answer is just moral enough. On the MPRE, professional responsibility means "sketchy, but not too shady." Kind of like Colin Farrell.

[Sven]

This depends entirely on your ability to locate and identify the ninth month from the labrynthine jumble that is the calendar, and to determine what number should follow the sequence 5,4,3,2.

Vince Young answered "Touchdownber." To both.

Though it's not like the MPRE is rocket science. "Attorney A follows the law. Attorney B fucks schoolchildren while cheating on his taxes. Who gets the frowny sticker?"

[d]

I know I'm not alone here--I failed the MPRE on my first try (got an 80 or something, needed an 85), and blew it out of the water on the second try (105 or 110 I think).

Then on the Texas Bar (first try), I got a 756 (min. passing is 675)--not exactly smoking, but a solid pass nonetheless.

Just for background, I graduated 9th in the class, near straight-As, etc (one of my two Cs was in PR, though). At least two other people on my law review failed the MPRE, and one of those guys failed it twice. I'm not saying I'm a brain or that the test is hard--just that shit happens.

After I failed the MPRE, I told myself I'd rather fail that thing 5 times than fail the Bar once.

If you fail the MPRE does that make it more likely that Jenkins & Gilchrist will hire you?

[Ron Mexico]

9th in the class with a pair of Cs? Damn, I want to go to your school.

[willie]

The Rule that got me through the MPRE was this: Think to yourself "What would Jesus do?" and then go with the answer one notch below that one.

[JRM]

Sven:

It's Attorney B, right? Right?

Anyway, I agree that MPRE is easy if you read the rules and read the notes. The bar is easy if you read the law. Paying the bar tab is easy if you're not coming back; run fast. And remember, Attorney B doesn't get a frowny sticker if he doesn't get caught.

--JRM

Just pick the answer that makes the least money. You'll get a perfect score.

[Stacie]

I have taken this same approach. I managed to work up a whopping 67 on the first MPRE.

So far all it makes me want to do is punch my ethics teacher in the face. This of course is unethical. And now you MAY be under a duty to disclose this to my ethics teacher and an assortment of boards.

I could be wrong about that though. After all, I did fail the MPRE.

[Unreasonable Man]

I wouldn't worry too much. Although it certainly is possible to fail the MPRE (as a couple commentors have attested to), but I only studied for a day and a half, and I passed by WAAAAYY too much (I got like a 127 when all I needed is 85).

[Anynomous Asshole]

I'm functionally retarded and I easily passed. Thanks Dz.

[d]

Ron Mexico: (not that anyone cares, but...) both Cs were in 2 hour classes.

Baby arm.

I agree with Ron Mexico, d--here, any curvy letters in the transcript probably knocks you out of the "top 10."

But I also agree with you that it's highly likely that no one cares.

At UT a C basically means "You should seriously reconsider your career path, though we are happy to keep taking your money."

C is the new F.

Got a B+ in the Dzer's class. A couple months later, I studied three hours and took the MPRE. Got a 138.

If you had Dzienkowski for PR, you're gold.

[Bearispissed]

At Baylor F is the new B.

[Ian]

I took the PR for Civil Litigators, which is really a study of classic agency law and applied law and economics to three discrete PR issues. In other words, I learned next to nothing about the Rules, and I am scared about the MPRE this weekend.

[jd0505]

Ditto on Dzier for PR. I studied my old PR outline (that I'd gotten from someone else, of course) for a couple of hours and knocked the MPRE out of the freaking park, car-windshield-smashing style. All I pulled in Dzier's class was a B+.

To all the posters raving about DZ for PR, did you guys go to class and do the reading? Or can I stay home for the rest of the semester?

Re: Dz--I went to class but didn't read. Class is the best part--go to it.

[Anynomous Asshole]

Don't bother buying the books for Dz, just go to class and take good notes. I never ever opened the freaking book and pulled an A-.