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MBE Decoded, Second Edition

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Authors
  • Mary Basick
  • Tina Schindler
Series / Bar Review Series
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Book length
640 pages
Publication Date
2026-04-03
Edition
Second Edition
Description

MBE Decoded, Second Edition, by Mary Basick & Tina Schindler is a comprehensive bar preparation book that provides MBE rules as well as tips and strategies on how the rules are tested, how to avoid distractor decoy answers, and how to study effectively for the MBE portion of the bar exam.

MBE Decoded provides the rules in a concise, easily manageable and understandable format. The authors thoroughly analyzed every released MBE question to identify common testing patterns, note heavily tested topics, and provide tips and strategies on distractor decoy answers to help students avoid selecting the wrong answers. The introductory chapter walks students through HOW to solve MBE questions, which alone can improve an applicant’s MBE scores simply by approaching the questions in an effective and efficient manner. The other chapters cover each MBE-tested subject and aid in memorization and understanding of the tested rules. The book encompasses both strategies and substantive rules for students to properly engage with the material when completing practice MBE questions. For maximum effect, this book should be used in conjunction with a full practice question bank. 

New to the Second Edition: 

  • Updated black letter law rules for all MBE-tested subjects with key terms bolded. 
  • Updated visual flow charts and rule decoded charts to help applicants understand how difficult rules are tested and how they interrelate. 
  • Updated identification of the most frequently tested MBE rules. 
  • Updated subject-specific memorization cheat sheets. 
  • Updated examples based on real MBE questions of how rules are tested. 

Professors and students will benefit from: 

  • Clear and concise MBE black letter law outlines with key terms bolded. 
  • MBE tips to improve accuracy and understanding of how the rules apply and don’t apply (to avoid selecting decoy answers). 
  • Examples based on real released MBE questions, which illustrate how the rules are tested. 
  • Decoy tips for nuanced rules that applicants often answer incorrectly. 
  • Strategies on HOW to solve MBE questions, HOW to effectively study, and HOW to memorize rules. 
  • Bullet point memorization cheat sheets. 
  • Visual charts to aid in rule understanding and memorization. 
  • Guided MBE walkthrough question deconstructions for each subject, with 10 sample questions per subject. 
  • Troubleshooting tips to improve scores and accuracy.
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About the authors
Mary Basick
Assistant Dean for Academic Skills
University of California, Irvine

Mary Basick is the Assistant Dean of Academic Skills at UC Irvine Law School. She has successfully designed programs, developed innovative and engaging curricula, and taught courses in academic skills and bar preparation for over twenty years. Dean Basick utilizes best practices, statistical data, effective teaching pedagogy, and cognitive learning theory to develop and implement programming, resulting in historic bar passage success at several law schools. Dean Basick has coauthored popular best-selling books on bar preparation, consults and provides expert commentary on the bar exam and preparation, and is a member of the California State Bar Law School Council. She received the 2025 Impact Award from the Association of Academic Success Educators for her bar exam advocacy.

Tina Schindler
Associate Director of Academic Skills
University of California, Irvine

Professor Schindler is the Associate Director of Academic Skills at University of California, Irvine School of Law. For almost two decades, she has designed academic and bar exam support programs at a variety of schools, created innovative curricula, directed bar preparation programs and pre-admission law school programs, taught courses and workshops in all California bar tested subjects, and published books that enable students to pass both the essay and performance test portion of the California Bar Exam.

She co-authored (with Mary Basick) a popular and highly rated bar preparation book, Essay Exam Writing for the California Bar Exam, which is in its third edition. She also co-authored (with Mary Basick) the book, California Performance Test Workbook: Preparation for the Bar Exam, in its second edition. Her work was also published in the book, Your Guide to Taking the Bar (Again).

Professor Schindler has also taught doctrinal classes in the areas of Civil Procedure, Professional Responsibility, and Remedies. Professor Schindler’s experiences also involve grading and lecturing for several bar preparation companies, serving on several committees related to bar passage, and presenting on bar exam topics at national conferences. With a Microbiology undergraduate major, she also successfully sat for the patent bar exam and worked on patent applications in her early career years.
Product Information
Edition
Second Edition
Publication date
2026-04-03
Copyright Year
2026
Pages
640
Connected eBook (Digital Only)
9798894104676
Paperback
9798894104669
Subject
Bar Preparation
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