This new edition of Strategies & Tactics for the MBE®, Eighth Edition, has been carefully revised by Steve Emanuel and is full of up-to-date advice on how to answer Multistate Bar Exam (MBE®) questions. In addition to 140 new questions, it includes details on how to handle each MBE® subject; specific, step-by-step strategies for analyzing different question types; tips about how subtle differences in wording can completely change the meaning of an answer choice; and strategies for "rewording" questions in your mind to make them easier to analyze. Strategies & Tactics for the MBE® contains a full-length, 200-question practice MBE® plus more than 470 additional questions arranged by subject area. More than 635 of the questions are from actual past exams and have been released by the National Conference of Bar Examiners (NCBE). All questions and answers have been carefully vetted by Steve Emanuel personally. Every subject area begins with detailed advice on how to handle MBE® questions on that subject and how to focus your studies on the most common and trickiest MBE® topics. Every question has a fully explained answer that analyzes, in detail, every answer choice-after all, it's just as important to know why any given wrong choice is wrong as it is to know why the correct choice is right. Strategies & Tactics for the MBE® will give you the skills to succeed ⦠and the confidence to excel.
Why use Strategies and Tactics for the MBE®? It contains more than 670 questions, of which more than 635 represent an actual question asked on a past MBE®. It includes 60 Civil Procedure questions released by the NCBE, accompanied by answers personally drafted by Steve Emanuel, as well as an addition 28 MBE®-style Civil Procedure questions and answers written by Steve Emanuel. This book assumes you haven't studied the substantive law in question since your first year in law school. So if an answer choice addresses, say, the Erie doctrine or the M'Naghten Rule or quantum meruit, the explanation will restate the doctrine in detail, before analyzing how it applies to the question. This book gives you unparalleled step-by-step analysis of each choice, and is particularly noteworthy for its detailed analysis of why each wrong choice is wrong. All detailed answers have been written by Steve Emanuel, who is a (retired) member of the New York, Connecticut, Maryland, and Virginia bar associations and has passed the California bar exam. Open this book to an answer section, and compare it to any other MBE® preparation book⦠you'll see that Strategies & Tactics for the MBE® is the only book that gives you the detailed insights you need.