Preparing for and passing the bar exam is no easy task. Professors at WMU-Cooley Law School now have something new to help students do well on the Multistate Bar Examination (MBE), a 200-question multiple-choice exam given in nearly every state.
“We take great pride in our students here at our Grand Rapids campus and how they have done on the Bar exam,” stated Associate Dean Nelson Miller, who leads that campus and its Bar Exam preparation. “We especially want every single student and graduate to do well on the Multistate Bar Examination component,” he asserts, “because comprehensive law knowledge is instrumental to practice success.”
To that end, Dean Miller and colleagues have recently published three new books on preparing for the Multistate Bar Examination. Volume I in the series offers four 100-question banks of specially designed practice questions, mixing all seven MBE subjects into each bank, just like the exam itself. The second volume offers seven 100-question banks separating each of the seven MBE subjects into its own bank, so that readers can practice each subject.
Beyond offering hundreds of new practice questions with answers and explanations for why each option is correct or incorrect, these two volumes have added value by being crafted in the same style as the MBE questions that test every topic and subtopic on the MBE.
“The examiners who draft the MBE publish a list of the exam’s roughly 350 topics,” explained Miller. “We figured, why not test every topic?”
In fact, the two volumes test every topic at least twice, keying each question, answer, and explanation to the MBE topics list. Those preparing for the MBE can now practice questions on every topic or on any topic on which they feel they need a test.
The effort didn’t stop there, though. Dean Miller explains, “In writing the hundreds of answer explanations, I realized that examinees might also benefit from a concise summary of the law on every MBE topic.”
So, the third volume in the series provides a summary page on each of the MBE’s approximately 350 topics.
“Law school, bar none, is the greatest intellectual exercise anyone can endeavor,” Miller contends. “Preparing for the Multistate Bar Examination is an extraordinary accomplishment and privilege. Anyone who does, deserves all of our support.”
The three legal preparation book volumes are available online at amazon.com and free in electronic form to any WMU-Cooley student or graduate.
Preparing for the Multistate Bar Examination: Multiple-Choice Strategies and Multiple-Choice Questions, Answers, and Explanations for Every MBE Topic and Subtopic (Volume I: All Subjects) (Crown Mgt. 2017) (authors Nelson P. Miller and Tonya Krause-Phelan);
Preparing for the Multistate Bar Examination: Multiple-Choice Strategies and Multiple-Choice Questions, Answers, and Explanations for Every MBE Topic and Subtopic (Volume II: The MBE Subjects Separated Into Seven 100-Question Banks) (Crown Mgt. 2017) (authors Nelson P. Miller and Tonya Krause-Phelan);
Preparing for the Multistate Bar Examination, Volume III: An Outline of Every MBE Topic and Subtopic (Crown Mgt. 2017) (author Nelson P. Miller).
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