personal study guide

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Celebration Bar
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Multistate
Personal
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
READ THIS FIRST – IMPORTANT INFORMATION 1

INTRODUCTION 2
LIST OF COURSE MATERIALS 2
IF YOU NEED ASSISTANCE... 3
INTRODUCTION TO THE MULTISTATE EXAM 4
EXAM FORMAT OF THE MULTISTATE BAR EXAM (WEDNESDAY) 10
PERSONAL STUDY GUIDE™ 11
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READ THIS FIRST – IMPORTANT INFORMATION
Welcome! We’re Jackson and Sara Mumey, and together we’ve been preparing students to
take their bar exams for over a decade. Since 1994, we’ve operated as Celebration Bar
Review. It’s a family-run business that takes pride in ofering a quality course with personal
service and attention. Sara runs the ofce and coordinates our production staf and vendors.
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kindness than anger). If you thought you were purchasing an impersonal, slick,
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INTRODUCTION
This Personal Study Guide™ will serve as your roadmap through The Celebration Bar Review
Course for the Multistate Exam. By following the instructions, schedule, and suggestions
here, you will work your way methodically through the course materials in the most efcient
manner possible. This syllabus also contains update information. You should consult this
syllabus daily to ensure that you are on track, and are notified of any new information
needed for a particular subject.
LIST OF COURSE MATERIALS
The Celebration Bar Review course uses proprietary course materials. When you sign in to
the online site for each part of your course (Multistate and your State Course) you will see a
list at the top of the page called “Books.” On that page you will find a link to each of the
book files you will use. These can be downloaded to your computer or used from the
internet as you need them.
TEXTS
1. Multistate Book 1 (Constitutional Law, Criminal Law and Procedure, Real Property)
2. Multistate Book 2 (Contracts & Sales, Evidence, Torts, Fed Civ Pro & Jurisdiction)
3. Multistate Testing Workbooks 1, 2 and 3
4. Multistate Personal Trainer™ Books 1 and 2 (correspond to Subject Books)
5. This Personal Study Guide™
Lectures
Your lectures will be online as well. When you sign on to the online site for each part of your
course (Multistate and your State course) you will see a list at the top of the page called
“Lectures.” On that page you will find a link to the lectures that are enabled for your course.
These correspond to the assignments in your study guide found later in this book. Please
note that some lectures have video and others only show a “cloud loop” over the audio
portion. This is to enable play on mobile devices.
Questions
The first 200 questions in each subject will be found in the Multistate Personal Trainer
Books as well as online at www.quizegg.com . You will find the link to the quizegg.com site
for the online question program on the Multistate page in the “Practice Questions” section.
You can use either or both of these approaches to your practice questions.
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IF YOU NEED ASSISTANCE...
To make your bar exam preparation as convenient as possible, accommodate your
preparation needs and scheduling, and to give you the personal attention you need, we have
established some guidelines to help us work together. Please note these guidelines, and call
if you have any questions.
You are entitled to calls or emails for general assistance, strategizing, scheduling help,
or a pep talk with Jackson. He will not, however, review any of your written materials
with this course option. Jackson can be reached at 864-365-6083 or you can reach him
on FaceTime at
INTRODUCTION TO THE MULTISTATE EXAM
The Multistate Bar Exam consists of 200 four-option multiple-choice questions prepared by
the American College Testing Service for the National Conference of Bar Examiners. Of the
200 questions, 190 are graded and 10 are “pre-test” questions that do not count in the
grade. The pre-test questions are not identified as such in the exam. Candidates answer
100 questions in the three-hour morning session and the remaining 100 questions in the
three-hour afternoon session. Beginning with the Feb 2015 exam there have been a roughly
equal number of questions in torts, contracts and sales, constitutional law, criminal law and
procedure, evidence, property, and Federal Civil Procedure & Jurisdictions. Specified
percentages of the questions in each subject are devoted to particular topics of those
subjects. For example, nine of the 27 evidence questions test the hearsay rule and its
exceptions. The Celebration Bar Review materials are designed to reflect the relative
weights of the topics tested.
GRADING THE MULTISTATE BAR EXAMINATION
The candidate is first given a “raw score,” i.e., the number of questions answered
correctly out of the 190 that count towards grading. No deduction is made for wrong
answers, so it is important to answer all questions, even if the answer is a random guess.
The raw score is then adjusted by adding points to achieve the “scaled score.” The number
of points added is determined by a complex formula which compares the difculty of the
current exam to the difculty of the July 1973 Exam. The comparative performance of
students on 60 “control” questions, 30 of which have been given on a previous February
examination and 30 of which have been given on a previous July examination, form the
basis for determining the difculty of each exam. Past grading practice indicates that you
can expect from 10 to 18 points to be added to your raw score to determine your scaled
score.
COMBINATION OF THE MULTISTATE GRADE WITH LOCAL EXAM GRADE TO
DETERMINE PASSING SCORES
The National Conference of Bar Examiners does not prescribe the score which an
applicant must obtain on the Multistate Bar Exam in order to pass it or the entire bar exam.
Each state determines both the way in which the applicant’s Multistate score will be
combined with the score on the local portion of the exam, and the minimum passing score.
The next chapter of this Study Guide describes the procedure that this jurisdiction uses.
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THE MULTISTATE COURSE
The Multistate course consists of thorough substantive texts, lectures on the testable
points of each subject, and practice with approximately 1,900 Multistate-type multiple-
choice questions, many of them actual past Multistate Bar Exam questions released by the
National Conference of Bar Examiners.
MATERIALS USED WITH THE MULTISTATE COURSE
The written materials for the Multistate Course consist of two text volumes (one
containing Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, and Property; the other containing
Torts, Contracts & Sales, Evidence and Federal Civ Pro & Jurisdiction), the Multistate
Workbook (containing a discussion of Multistate test-taking techniques, several complete
Multistate practice examinations, and the Nutshells of Law), and two Question Volumes.
OVERVIEW OF THE MULTISTATE COURSE
PHASE 1: LEARNING THE LAW: The first emphasis of the course centers on mastering
the principles of Multistate law which will allow you to achieve a satisfactory score on the
Multistate Bar Exam. In order to accomplish this, you will need to study the substantive law
as it is presented in the text materials and/or the lectures, and work through the Multistate
questions as they are presented in the questions volumes.
PHASE 2: REVIEW and EXAMINATION PRACTICE: The course will allow you to test your
abilities as to the substance and the techniques necessary to pass the Multistate Bar Exam.
You should first review your performance on the questions answered up to that date to
ensure that you have the knowledge and skills necessary to pass the Multistate Bar Exam.
Sample Multistate exams will also be presented in the format of the actual Multistate Exam.
Your performance on the questions will either assure you that you have the requisite
knowledge and skills, or will indicate where you should best spend the remaining study time
to ensure that you will acquire that knowledge and skill.
All of these elements are described in further detail on the following pages.
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