Trap Taxonomy
← Command centerThe recurring patterns behind MBE traps
Every wrong answer the MBE writes is built on purpose. Browse the wrong-answer architectures the test reuses and the misconceptions they prey on, then open one to see the questions that deploy it as a distractor.
Wrong-answer architecture
3431 trapsHow the distractor is built
- Information Equals Knowledge Confusion1 q · 3 choices
- Initial Aggressor Fallacy1 q · 3 choices
- Injury Alone Misframing1 q · 3 choices
- Injury Defeats Consent Myth1 q · 3 choices
- Injury Myth1 q · 3 choices
- Injury Requirement Myth1 q · 3 choices
- Inmate Interrogation1 q · 3 choices
- Inner Hearsay1 q · 3 choices
- Innocent Explanation Overclaim1 q · 3 choices
- Inquiry Duty Overclaim1 q · 3 choices
- Inquiry Vs Counteroffer1 q · 3 choices
- Insanity Defense1 q · 3 choices
- Insecurity As Repudiation1 q · 3 choices
- Insecurity Bait1 q · 3 choices
- Installment Contract Exception1 q · 3 choices
- Installment Form Loophole1 q · 3 choices
- Installment Schedule1 q · 3 choices
- Instruction Fact Mistaken For Admissibility Foundation1 q · 1 choice
- Insufficient Breach Evidence1 q · 3 choices
- Insurance Evidence Bar1 q · 3 choices
- Insurance Fault Bait1 q · 3 choices
- Insurance Motive1 q · 3 choices
- Insurance Overbreadth1 q · 3 choices
- Intended Use Wrong Reason1 q · 3 choices
- Intentionality1 q · 3 choices
- Intentional Act1 q · 3 choices
- Intent After Entry Mislabel1 q · 3 choices
- Intent At Entry1 q · 3 choices
- Intent Element Conflation1 q · 3 choices
- Intent Element Fabrication1 q · 3 choices
- Intent Element Missing1 q · 3 choices
- Intent Only Answer1 q · 3 choices
- Intent Overclaim1 q · 3 choices
- Intent Required For Causation1 q · 3 choices
- Intent Requirement Misconception1 q · 3 choices
- Intent Snapshot1 q · 3 choices
- Intent Substitutes For Result1 q · 3 choices
- Intent Timing1 q · 3 choices
- Intent To Injury Overclaim1 q · 3 choices
- Intent To Kill Myth1 q · 3 choices
- Intent To Kill Required1 q · 3 choices
- Intent To Kill Requirement Myth1 q · 3 choices
- Intent Underread1 q · 3 choices
- Intent Vs Act1 q · 3 choices
- Intent Without Apprehension1 q · 3 choices
- Intent Without Title1 q · 3 choices
- Interests Of Justice Intuition1 q · 3 choices
- Interest Omission Trap1 q · 3 choices
- Intermeddler Overgeneralization1 q · 3 choices
- Internal Contradiction1 q · 3 choices
- Internal Mental Process1 q · 3 choices
- Internal Vs External Compulsion1 q · 3 choices
- Interruption Bait1 q · 3 choices
- Interstate Burden Bridge Fallacy1 q · 3 choices
- Interstate Vs International Travel Distinction1 q · 3 choices
- Intervening Event Overread1 q · 3 choices
- Inter Vivos Distraction1 q · 3 choices
- Inter Vivos Vs Testamentary Confusion1 q · 3 choices
- Intestacy Detour1 q · 3 choices
- Intoxication Erases Malice1 q · 3 choices
Misconception
3643 trapsThe student error it preys on
- Hearsay Cannot Be Struck Once Heard1 q · 3 choices
- Hearsay Equals Inadmissible1 q · 3 choices
- Hearsay Exception Cures Confrontation1 q · 3 choices
- Hearsay Exception Equals Admissibility1 q · 3 choices
- Hearsay Has No Absence Exception1 q · 3 choices
- Hearsay Is Always Inadmissible1 q · 3 choices
- Hearsay Is Automatically Inadmissible1 q · 3 choices
- Hearsay Label Ends Analysis1 q · 3 choices
- Hearsay Label Ends The Analysis1 q · 3 choices
- Hearsay Means Automatic Exclusion1 q · 3 choices
- Hearsay Means Inadmissible1 q · 3 choices
- Hearsay Means No Exception1 q · 3 choices
- Hearsay Never Supports Warrants1 q · 3 choices
- Hearsay Overgeneralization1 q · 3 choices
- Hearsay Reflex1 q · 3 choices
- Hearsay Requires Full Legal Knowledge1 q · 3 choices
- Hearsay Rule Solves Every Admissibility Problem1 q · 3 choices
- Hedging Creates Opinion1 q · 3 choices
- Heirs Named In Deed Are Owners1 q · 3 choices
- Heir Takes Because Recording After Death1 q · 3 choices
- Heir Takes The Family Land1 q · 3 choices
- Helper Cost Equals New Contract1 q · 3 choices
- Heroic Rescue Equals Recovery1 q · 3 choices
- Heroism Equals Liability1 q · 3 choices
- Hidden Condition Controls Later Contract1 q · 3 choices
- Hidden Defects Escape As Is1 q · 3 choices
- Hidden Incidents Make Evidence Inadmissible1 q · 3 choices
- Hidden Termite Damage Automatically Means Breach1 q · 3 choices
- Hidden Truth Overweights Reasonable Belief1 q · 3 choices
- Highest Burden Cures Shift1 q · 3 choices
- High Tax Is Unconstitutional1 q · 3 choices
- High Tax Requires Compelling Interest1 q · 3 choices
- Hiring A Killer Only Proves Solicitation1 q · 3 choices
- Hiring Lawyer Triggers 6th Amendment1 q · 3 choices
- His Heirs Is A Class Gift1 q · 3 choices
- Holdover Equals Impossibility1 q · 3 choices
- Homeowners Have Unlimited Rights To Protect Property1 q · 3 choices
- Homeowner Status Creates Title Recovery1 q · 3 choices
- Home Entry Never Without Warrant1 q · 3 choices
- Home Is An Absolute Shield1 q · 3 choices
- Home Protection Transfers Automatically1 q · 3 choices
- Home Questioning Is Automatically Noncustodial1 q · 3 choices
- Home Search Requires Entry Inside1 q · 3 choices
- Home Threshold Cuts Off Hot Pursuit1 q · 3 choices
- Homicide Always Requires Intent To Kill1 q · 3 choices
- Honest Belief Alone Enough1 q · 3 choices
- Honest Belief Equals Acquittal1 q · 3 choices
- Honest Belief Is A Defense1 q · 3 choices
- Honest Dislike Defeats Payment1 q · 3 choices
- Honest Fear1 q · 3 choices
- Honest Fear Completes Duress1 q · 3 choices
- Honest Fear Equals Self Defense1 q · 3 choices
- Honest Fear Is Enough1 q · 3 choices
- Hostile Conduct Is Only Character Proof1 q · 3 choices
- Hostile Status Controls Scope1 q · 3 choices
- Hostility Controls Ripeness1 q · 3 choices
- Hot Pursuit Licenses Full Search1 q · 3 choices
- Housing As Fundamental Right1 q · 3 choices
- Humanitarian Motive Creates Constitutional Authority1 q · 3 choices
- Hypnosis Is Categorically Unconstitutional1 q · 3 choices