What Are The Most Highly Tested MEE Topics?

What Are The Most Highly Tested MEE Topics?

The Multi-state Essay Exam (MEE) is taken by thousands of hopeful bar applicants every year. Regardless of your jurisdiction, if you take the MEE, it will be a significant part of your bar exam score. That means doing well on the MEE is crucial to passing the bar exam. We obviously recommend that bar examinees adequately prepare for the bar exam by learning the laws to be tested. But perhaps the smartest approach to doing well on the MEE is focusing your time and attention on the most highly tested MEE topics.

What Are The Most Highly Tested MEE Topics?

What is the MEE?

The National Conference of Bar Examiners (NCBE) developed the MEE. The MEE consists of six 30-minute essay questions. The MEE is offered in several United States jurisdictions either as part of the jurisdiction’s individual bar exam or as part of the Uniform Bar Exam. When the MEE is administered as part of the UBE, the MEE is worth 30% of an examinees bar exam score. Getting a good score on the MEE can make or break your bar exam score regardless of your jurisdiction. That means knowing the law for the highly tested MEE topics is key to passing the bar exam!

What is tested on the MEE?

 There are 14 possible subjects to be tested on the MEE. The key to studying “smarter” rather than harder is to know that not all of these topics are tested with the same frequency. We recommend that you still be prepared to be tested on any of the 14 possible MEE subjects. That said, being incredibly prepared to answer a question about the most highly tested MEE topics is more important. This advice is particularly helpful is you have limited time or you’ve fallen behind with studying.

The 14 possible MEE subjects are:

• Agency and Partnership
• Corporations and LLCs
• Civil Procedure
• Conflict of Laws
• Constitutional Law
• Contracts
• Criminal Law and Procedure
• Evidence
• Family Law
• Real Property
• Torts
• Trusts and Future Interests
• Decedents’ Estates (Wills)
• Secured Transactions

Again, of these possible topics, not all of them are tested equally. When creating a study schedule, it makes more sense to spend a greater amount of time on something like Civil Procedure in lieu of Family Law. Both are important to know, but Civil Procedure is a more highly tested MEE topics. Keep reading, and we’ll explain more!

What are the most highly tested MEE topics?

The most highly tested MEE topic is Civil Procedure. Civil Procedure is tested on virtually every MEE. Civil Procedure was also added to the Multistate Bar Exam (MBE) in 2015, so you can bet that studying for Civil Procedure won’t be in vain!

After Civil Procedure, the most highly tested MEE topics are:

• Agency and Partnership
• Corporations and LLCs
• Constitutional Law
• Contracts
• Evidence
• Real Property
• Trusts and Future Interests
• Decedents’ Estates
• Secured Transactions

Topics like Family Law, Torts, Criminal Law and Procedure, Conflicts of Laws, and Commercial Paper are not tested with the same frequency as the topics listed above. Sometimes these topics won’t be tested as standalone topics.

For example, you may see a Conflicts of Law question, but it will almost always be paired with a highly tested MEE topic like Civil Procedure. We’ve compiled a list of the MEE subjects for each year, so you can see what is usually tested! For even more in-depth information about highly tested MEE topics, check out our MEE topic frequency chart.

It is smart to try to estimate what you will expect to see on the MEE. By focusing on highly tested MEE topics, you can improve your chances of being prepared for the questions you’ll likely encounter. However, beware of putting too much emphasis on trying to predict exactly what questions you’ll see on exam day. You’ll still need to study each of the possible topics on the MEE. No matter how much you’ve studied old exams, there’s no way to know what exactly will be tested!

What is the best way to prepare for the MEE?

Outside of focusing the most energy on highly tested MEE topics, our main advice is to get good outlines! You should be using outlines that are made directly from the NCBE’s examiners’ analysis. Otherwise, the information you’re studying might not be relevant. Or worse, the information might not be correct! If you aren’t taking our bar prep course, we offer MEE One-Sheets that give you an overview of what law you should be learning.

Once you have the best study materials, the key is making sure you actually memorize the law. Knowing the general idea of what the law states is much different than having a definitive, descriptive, and accurate rule statement to put in an essay. The difference of a few keywords can be the difference between a great MEE essay and a bad MEE essay. Put in the effort to memorize your MEE outlines (especially for highly tested MEE topics). You won’t regret it!

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