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
- Lawful Possession Confusion1 q · 3 choices
- Lawful Possession Ignored1 q · 3 choices
- Lawyers Touched It Bait1 q · 3 choices
- Lawyer Label Trap1 q · 3 choices
- Law Enforcement Carveout Miss1 q · 3 choices
- Law Of Vendetta Instinct1 q · 3 choices
- Layered Admissibility Gate1 q · 3 choices
- Leading Question Bait1 q · 3 choices
- Learned Treatise1 q · 3 choices
- Lease Equals Fee1 q · 3 choices
- Lease Silence Bait1 q · 3 choices
- Legally True But Irrelevant Bar Exam Bait Attractive Wrong Answe1 q · 1 choice
- Legal Certainty Test St Paul Mercury1 q · 3 choices
- Legal Duty Gate1 q · 3 choices
- Legal Efficacy Gate1 q · 3 choices
- Legal Impossibility1 q · 3 choices
- Legal Impossibility Overlooked1 q · 3 choices
- Legal Label Bait1 q · 3 choices
- Legal Misstatement1 q · 1 choice
- Legal Terms1 q · 3 choices
- Legislative Vs Executive Confusion1 q · 3 choices
- Legitimate Purpose Bait1 q · 3 choices
- Leon Exceptions1 q · 3 choices
- Lesser Included Offense Misunderstood1 q · 3 choices
- Lesser Included Offense Reversal1 q · 3 choices
- Lesser True Answer1 q · 3 choices
- Level Of Scrutiny Mapping Rational Basis Vs Speech Review1 q · 3 choices
- Level Of Scrutiny Selection1 q · 3 choices
- Liability Cap1 q · 3 choices
- Liability Ledger1 q · 3 choices
- Liberty Deprivation Overclaim1 q · 3 choices
- Liberty Overclaim1 q · 1 choice
- License Conversion1 q · 3 choices
- License Privilege Overclaim1 q · 3 choices
- Lien Compromise1 q · 3 choices
- Lien Red Herring1 q · 3 choices
- Light Air View1 q · 3 choices
- Limitations Bait1 q · 3 choices
- Limited Purpose Exception Misapplied1 q · 3 choices
- Limited Renewal1 q · 3 choices
- Limited Use Evidence1 q · 3 choices
- Limiting Instruction Reflex1 q · 3 choices
- Lineup Only Remedy1 q · 3 choices
- Liquidated Damages Clause1 q · 3 choices
- Liquidated Debt1 q · 3 choices
- Listener Reaction1 q · 3 choices
- Literal Conditions Trap1 q · 3 choices
- Literal Text Trap1 q · 3 choices
- Litigation Purpose Bait1 q · 3 choices
- Live Custodian False Positive1 q · 3 choices
- Local Custom Bait1 q · 3 choices
- Local Function Overread1 q · 3 choices
- Local Sales Frame1 q · 3 choices
- Location As Source Law1 q · 3 choices
- Locked Room1 q · 3 choices
- Long Possession Bait1 q · 3 choices
- Lopez Three Category Framework1 q · 3 choices
- Lost Profit Add Back1 q · 3 choices
- Lost Profit Lure1 q · 3 choices
- Lost Property Myth1 q · 3 choices
Misconception
3643 trapsThe student error it preys on
- Intent Requirement For Homicide1 q · 3 choices
- Intent Substitutes For Other Elements1 q · 3 choices
- Intent To Injure Required1 q · 3 choices
- Intent To Kill Is First Degree1 q · 3 choices
- Intent To Kill Necessity1 q · 3 choices
- Intent To Kill Required1 q · 3 choices
- Intent To Pay Equals Assignment1 q · 3 choices
- Interest Determines Admissibility1 q · 3 choices
- Interest Is Optional Or Last1 q · 3 choices
- Interior Location Controls1 q · 3 choices
- Interlocutory Appeal Is Impossible In Federal Court1 q · 3 choices
- Interstate Burden Automatically Triggers Article Iv1 q · 3 choices
- Interstate Commerce Generates Federal Common Law For State Law Diversity Claims1 q · 3 choices
- Interstate Facts Equal Federal Jurisdiction1 q · 3 choices
- Interstate Movement Creates Federal Case1 q · 3 choices
- Interstate Project Defeats Local Sales Tax1 q · 3 choices
- Intestacy Captures Appointive Property1 q · 3 choices
- Intoxication Always Negates Criminal Intent1 q · 3 choices
- Intoxication Always Requires Bac Evidence1 q · 3 choices
- Intoxication Applies To All Intent Words1 q · 3 choices
- Intoxication Defense Myth1 q · 3 choices
- Invalid Warrant Equals Suppression1 q · 3 choices
- Inventory Search Is Only Vehicle Search Exception1 q · 3 choices
- Inventory Search Is Search1 q · 3 choices
- Inventory Search Requires Consent1 q · 3 choices
- Invocation Disposes Of Civil Claim1 q · 3 choices
- In Court Identification Always Purges Lineup Taint1 q · 3 choices
- In Court Identification Is Never Suppressible1 q · 3 choices
- In Court Id Always Independent1 q · 3 choices
- In Gross Easement Requires Dominant Parcel1 q · 3 choices
- Ip Clause Is Product Safety1 q · 3 choices
- Irrelevant Status Fact1 q · 3 choices
- Irrelevant Third Party Facts1 q · 3 choices
- Item Ownership Controls Suppression1 q · 3 choices
- I Communicated Acceptance So Contract Formed1 q · 3 choices
- Jailhouse Exempt1 q · 3 choices
- Jail Questioning Requires Lawyer Notification1 q · 3 choices
- Jmol As Only Jury Stop Tool1 q · 3 choices
- Jmol Is Universal1 q · 3 choices
- Jmol Must Be At Close Of Plaintiffs Case1 q · 3 choices
- Job Access Equals Possession1 q · 3 choices
- Job Comparability Decides Breach1 q · 3 choices
- Job Title Controls Theft1 q · 3 choices
- John Doe Pleadings Always Satisfy Rule 15 C Mistake1 q · 3 choices
- Joinder Requires Cross Liability1 q · 3 choices
- Joint Client Exception Applies To Third Parties1 q · 3 choices
- Joint Tenancy Words Help Lender1 q · 3 choices
- Joint Tenancy Works Like Tenancy In Common1 q · 3 choices
- Joint Tenants Owe Fiduciary Duty1 q · 3 choices
- Joint Tenant Can Devise Share1 q · 3 choices
- Joint Tortfeasors Auto Liability1 q · 3 choices
- Jt Works Like Tic1 q · 3 choices
- Judge Belief Controls Weight1 q · 3 choices
- Judge Cannot Poll Sua Sponte1 q · 3 choices
- Judge Decides Witness Truthfulness1 q · 3 choices
- Judge Findings Are Binding1 q · 3 choices
- Judge Good Faith Permits Retrial1 q · 3 choices
- Judge Has Complete Discretion1 q · 3 choices
- Judge Has Discretion Over Witness Exclusion1 q · 3 choices
- Judge Instruction Equals Judicial Finding1 q · 3 choices