Patent bar test-day strategy
Answer in brief
You have about 3.6 minutes per question. Move through each section answering what you know, flag the questions that need a lookup, and come back to them with the time you banked.
A two-pass approach
- First pass: answer every question you are confident on, and flag the rest.
- Second pass: look up flagged questions in the MPEP, hardest last.
- Final minutes: make sure no question is left blank.
Pacing checkpoints
- About 25 questions answered by the 90-minute mark of each section.
- If one question passes five minutes, choose your best answer, flag it and move on.
Sources for this entry
- What Is the Patent Bar? FindLaw
Exam format: 100 questions, 10 unscored, two three-hour sections, 70% of scored questions to pass. - Wysebridge — Patent bar exam simulator Wysebridge (publisher of this site)
Timed AM/PM practice modeled on the Prometric test center.
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