First time taker in Minnesota! Passed with a 317!
Honestly, the emotional roller coaster of the bar exam is absolutely insane, every few hours flipping between I definitely failed, and maybe I squeaked by. To score well enough for admission to every jurisdiction was unexpected.
For me focusing on multiple choice was the biggest impact towards the end. I really struggled until the last month, at which point I started focusing on the MBE portion, based on the scaling information.
Every question I got wrong, I wrote down the rule by hand, and then I studied those rules at the end of every day.
The big thing I did for MEEs was I uploaded the subject outlines to Chat GPT. I then had its give me short fact patterns, and I would write just one sentence issue statements. Once I was comfortable with that I started doing the issue statements followed by one to two sentence rule statements.
The MPT is all about time management. The better at outlining the essay the easier it is. I only actually wrote a few practice MPT's, I really focused on reading and outlining in under 30 minutes for each essay, to allow more time for writing, and making slight edits at the end. I ended up with about 15 minutes at the end of the session to go through and polish the MPT's and ensure the headings were strong and adjust formatting.