BarBri epicness.
Jul. 15th, 2009 09:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elwenBarBri today was epic.
We were scheduled to take a practice all-day MBE (200 multiple choice questions, 6 hours). We would then submit the scantrons for electronic grading and be given our ranking versus the rest of BarBri students in about 5-10 days.
Now, to begin with, the bar exam itself is in 13 days. *tries not to panic* So I would say that finding out your ranking is a good way to induce panic without providing any information that can be helpful at that point. I would look just to know, but it wouldn't do me any good.
But I am spared that temptation because...
I took the wrong test!
You see, there are two books that contain full-day simulated MBEs. And apparently I had forgotten about the other one and left it buried at the bottom of the box in which all the materials originally came. Most of the rest of the various workbooks and outlines are scattered across our dining table, because I have actually been using them during the course. But apparently I was supposed to find this never-before-used thing, the Multistate Maximizer.
So, I could have just grabbed the scantron, come home and taken the correct exam, and mailed in the scantron myself. But why bother? I think I am doing fine on the MBEs. Granted my score today was not as good as before, but it's still the least of my worries. And, like I said, I don't think the ranking is informative. So I'm not going to waste postage on it.
So I just turned in my scantron from the wrong test. Now we'll see how far off I am from random. :D
But if that epicness wasn't enough, there was more.
Last night, James nagged me to help drink his milk and eat the tapioca pudding he made. So this morning I had sugary cereal, sugary pudding, and sugary frosting. Which led to a spectacular sugar crash about 80 questions into the exam. That was okay, and since I finished the morning session early, I just sat there and dozed the last half hour (much to the amazement of the guy next to me). But apparently lunch didn't help, and by the afternoon I was falling asleep in the middle of questions.
That may have contributed to my lower score. It is good to know, though. It is entirely possible that multiple choice questions, being more passive than essays, are not enough to keep me awake, even with exam-day adrenaline. When I actually take the simulated MBE I was supposed to take today, I'll have to do it on a better night's sleep and a healthier breakfast, and see if that helps.
In the meantime, I can't go to class tomorrow because they'll be going over answers to an exam I didn't take. Good thing I was planning on watching these lectures online in the first place. Do they really need to spend 12 hours going over the answers? We've already gone through this process a couple times, and although it's marginally helpful, I find I only need half an ear for it most of the time. So I think I'm going to sit at my computer and train some Pokémon while I'm at it.
We were scheduled to take a practice all-day MBE (200 multiple choice questions, 6 hours). We would then submit the scantrons for electronic grading and be given our ranking versus the rest of BarBri students in about 5-10 days.
Now, to begin with, the bar exam itself is in 13 days. *tries not to panic* So I would say that finding out your ranking is a good way to induce panic without providing any information that can be helpful at that point. I would look just to know, but it wouldn't do me any good.
But I am spared that temptation because...
I took the wrong test!
You see, there are two books that contain full-day simulated MBEs. And apparently I had forgotten about the other one and left it buried at the bottom of the box in which all the materials originally came. Most of the rest of the various workbooks and outlines are scattered across our dining table, because I have actually been using them during the course. But apparently I was supposed to find this never-before-used thing, the Multistate Maximizer.
So, I could have just grabbed the scantron, come home and taken the correct exam, and mailed in the scantron myself. But why bother? I think I am doing fine on the MBEs. Granted my score today was not as good as before, but it's still the least of my worries. And, like I said, I don't think the ranking is informative. So I'm not going to waste postage on it.
So I just turned in my scantron from the wrong test. Now we'll see how far off I am from random. :D
But if that epicness wasn't enough, there was more.
Last night, James nagged me to help drink his milk and eat the tapioca pudding he made. So this morning I had sugary cereal, sugary pudding, and sugary frosting. Which led to a spectacular sugar crash about 80 questions into the exam. That was okay, and since I finished the morning session early, I just sat there and dozed the last half hour (much to the amazement of the guy next to me). But apparently lunch didn't help, and by the afternoon I was falling asleep in the middle of questions.
That may have contributed to my lower score. It is good to know, though. It is entirely possible that multiple choice questions, being more passive than essays, are not enough to keep me awake, even with exam-day adrenaline. When I actually take the simulated MBE I was supposed to take today, I'll have to do it on a better night's sleep and a healthier breakfast, and see if that helps.
In the meantime, I can't go to class tomorrow because they'll be going over answers to an exam I didn't take. Good thing I was planning on watching these lectures online in the first place. Do they really need to spend 12 hours going over the answers? We've already gone through this process a couple times, and although it's marginally helpful, I find I only need half an ear for it most of the time. So I think I'm going to sit at my computer and train some Pokémon while I'm at it.
