Thursday, September 08, 2011

This is how obsessed I am

Ok, I'll come clean. My MBE scaled score is 146.6. Good, that's out there now. I feel better.

Now, in Arizona, the new method of grading looks like this:
Section Points
MBE300
Essays200
PT100
TOTAL 600

The passing score in Arizona remains 410.

Now comes the obsessing... Assuming that the way the bar examiners allot points is based on the relation between the scaled score and the total possible, I should get 73.3% of the points available for the MBE or 219.9.

I think I did fairly well on the performance test. Last time when I felt that way I ended up with around 75%, so I'll see what 75 points on performance test does to me:
410 -(219.9 + 75) = 115.1

So far, it's like this:

Section PointsMy Scores?
MBE300 219.9
Essays200 115.1
PT100 75
TOTAL 600 410

So, I need a 57.5% on the essays. There are 6 essays and each is scored from 0-6. I need roughly a 3.45 average on each to pass the bar exam.

That is all assuming I'm right about how the test is scored and scaled and all that. I think I probably got around a 4 on most of the essays except that one. The one! The horrible, train-wreck that I will be lucky to get a 2 on.

But there is no way to know how I did. Not until October 7. Until then I need to figure out a way to stop obsessing!

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