Which Multistate Essay Exam subjects are tested together?
Which Multistate Essay Exam subjects are tested together?
Which Multistate Essay Exam subjects are tested together? Many of our Uniform Bar Exam students and Multistate Essay Exam students wonder which Multistate Essay Exam subjects are tested together, if any. While most Multistate Essay Exam (MEE) subjects are on their own (e.g. you will typically see, for example, Real Property tested on its own, Constitutional Law tested on its own, etc.) there are some common “crossovers” which appear on the Multistate Essay Exam.
Note that it has become more popular to have “crossover” subjects — that is, more than one subject tested together. The good news is that if you see more than one subject tested in a question, it will probably be tested in a predictable way! So, if you review past questions as well as the post below, you should be happy to see an MEE question test more than one subject!
In this post, we tell you which Multistate Essay Exam subjects are tested together the most. You can also review this Multistate Essay Exam chart if you are curious to see the exact years that subjects have been tested together.
Which Multistate Essay Exam subjects are tested together?
Criminal Procedure is sometimes combined with Evidence or Criminal Law.
Criminal Procedure is not that highly tested. However, when it is, it is frequently combined with another subject. In both July 2017 and July 2016, it was combined with Evidence. Fifth Amendment Miranda warnings were tested with hearsay issues on both exams.
In July 2009, Criminal Procedure was combined with Criminal Law (robbery, abandonment, and search and seizure were tested together). Of the seven times that Criminal Procedure was tested since 2005, it was combined with another subject three of those times. So this is a popular subject to combine with another MEE subject!
Conflicts of Law is now always tested with another subject.
Conflicts of Law is not a standalone subject so you will always see Conflicts of Law issues embedded into another subject if and when they are tested.
It is most combined with Civil Procedure (e.g., see July 2017, Feb 2012) or Family Law (e.g., see Feb 2017, July 2011). It has also been tested with Decedents’ Estates (July 2012). They love to test the Klaxon rule in Civil Procedure questions (that is, that the federal court will apply the choice of law principles of the state in which it sits if there is a case in federal court on diversity grounds). With Family Law, they have been recently testing the principle that a common law marriage in one state will be recognized by all other states.
Conflicts of Law is not tested super heavily but we predicted it would make a comeback in 2017 and it did. It was tested both exams in 2017.
Torts is combined with Agency.
In recent exams, Torts has been combined with Agency. Specifically, on both the July 2013 bar exam and February 2015 bar exam, the Torts question focused on whether an employer would be vicariously liable for the torts of his or her employees. Thus, these exams focused on negligence as well as vicarious liability.
These are the primary MEE subjects that are tested together. So whether you are in a state with the Uniform Bar Exam or in an MEE state, you can expect to see these subjects “crossover” the most. The good news is that when these MEE subjects are tested together, they tend to be tested in predictable ways. So you can easily prepare for one of these crossover questions by reviewing past MEE questions!
Curious about what the highly tested MEE topics are?
The NCBE tends to test certain topics within each subject more than other topics.
See this post for an overview of the highly-tested MEE topics for each of the Multistate Essay Exam subjects. If you are looking for an overview of the highly-tested topics on the MEE, check out our MEE one-sheets. These give you an overview of the highly-tested areas of the MEE in one sheet, front and back. We sell them in our online store.
We hope you found this Multistate Essay Exam advice useful! If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us at your convenience.
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