sethbc’s (infrequent) blog…

Well that’s out of the way. Now I just have to hope I passed. Anyway, find out in November I guess

Day 1 was not that bad I didn’t think. The first half of the day I felt like I did alright. I did the multiple choice first, and then the essays. Timed it exactly right too. 1 hour for the multiple choice, 2 hours for the essays. That gave me 15 minutes to go back and check some stuff in my essays. New York multiple choice was pretty hard, but I felt like I did alright on it. I mean, a lot of the New York distinctions were tested (obviously), and things just got a little confusing some times. The New York essays for the first part of the exam were pretty straight forward too. I definitely know that I missed some stuff I needed to get, but I hope it doesn’t hurt me that bad.

The New York essays in the second session weren’t that bad either. My timing was close to perfect though, I spent exactly 40 minutes on the essays, and started on the MPT. The MPT is sort of a just turn-your-brain-off memo, but I think I was running into fatigue at that point. My eyes were absolutely killing me after having spent so much time staring so intently at the case file and the computer. They just wouldn’t stop watering. I definitely felt myself start to space out a couple of times while I was sitting there digesting the file. I definitely didn’t do as well as I would have liked. My formatting was definitely a little screwed up at the end, and I barely got my conclusion section written.

Day 2 was definitely brutal. The MBE is just ridiculous. Every question has at least two correct answers. Seriously, it’s ridiculous. I honestly don’t have anything else to say about it. It was just impossible. The fatigue at the end of 200 multiple choice questions that complicated is pretty amazing. I feel absolutely brain-dead right now.