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Originally posted by bruinaphi
Performance tests are "closed world" situations where the bar gives you case law or statutes and you have to either write a memo, a pleading or rewrite a statute. For those who have taken real property, the second performance test on my bar was on the "Rule Against Perpetuities." We had to rewrite the statute. The whole room was laughing when we opened it up. Can you imagine a more tortious way to spend 3 hours than writing about the RAP?
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ACH! No RAP!!!! We had to write a memo to the judge about a specific issue, using fictional case law & statutes. It has been one year since I took the Texas Bar, and it still makes me physically ill to think about it. That was the first time I ever thought I was going to lose my breakfast during a test...that would have sucked for my fellow test-takers b/c you aren't allowed to leave the room during the first 15 minutes of the test!
TX Bar is 2.5 days. 1st day is Texas Criminal/Civil Procedure & Evidence-short answer, (actually not too bad) and the MPT (which pissed me off. I just spent 3 years in law school. If I couldn't do legal analysis & writing, I wouldn't have graduated!). That's our half day. Day 2 is MBE - scared the crap out of me & everyone else I talked to afterward. We were all told by our friends who took it in Feb that is was fair--none of us felt that way when we were done, and knew we would be taking the thing again. Day 3 is Texas Essays--12 essays total. I can b.s. my way through essays pretty well...it was still kind of tough, but I felt way better about it than the MBE.
I thought about taking the NM Bar about 2 months ago, but then remembered how awful it was to do it first time (you have to take the MBE & MPT & Multistate Essay), so I got over that. I'll just stick to my Texas license & send my people w/NM property problems across the border!