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
- Procedural Foreclosure Bait1 q · 3 choices
- Procedural Formality Bait1 q · 3 choices
- Procedural Frame Noise1 q · 3 choices
- Procedural Label Matching1 q · 3 choices
- Procedural Mislabel1 q · 3 choices
- Procedural Relic1 q · 3 choices
- Procedural Side Issue Bait1 q · 3 choices
- Procedural Vs Substantive Frame1 q · 3 choices
- Procedure Vs Power1 q · 3 choices
- Process Versus Merits1 q · 3 choices
- Production Vs Persuasion1 q · 3 choices
- Product Defect1 q · 3 choices
- Product Origin Proof1 q · 3 choices
- Professional Standard1 q · 3 choices
- Progress Payment1 q · 3 choices
- Promissory Estoppel Anchor1 q · 3 choices
- Promissory Estoppel Bait1 q · 3 choices
- Prompt Return Factor Absence Of Continuing Mens Rea1 q · 3 choices
- Prong Counting Test1 q · 3 choices
- Proof Level Bait1 q · 3 choices
- Proof Standard Bypass1 q · 3 choices
- Proof Strength Overdemand1 q · 3 choices
- Propensity Overcorrection1 q · 3 choices
- Propensity Shortcut1 q · 3 choices
- Propensity Smuggling1 q · 3 choices
- Propensity Stated As Purpose1 q · 3 choices
- Propensity Vs Plan1 q · 3 choices
- Property Condition Bait1 q · 3 choices
- Property Crime Predicate Error1 q · 3 choices
- Property Crime Taxonomy1 q · 3 choices
- Property Damage Actual Harm Rule1 q · 3 choices
- Property Defense Overclaim1 q · 3 choices
- Property Demand Wrong Basis1 q · 1 choice
- Property Law Imported Into Fourth Amendment Standing1 q · 3 choices
- Property Line Shortcut1 q · 3 choices
- Property Type1 q · 1 choice
- Property Word Proximity1 q · 3 choices
- Proper Measure Array1 q · 3 choices
- Proper Result Wrong Reason1 q · 3 choices
- Proponent Neutrality Blind Spot1 q · 3 choices
- Proportionality Failure1 q · 3 choices
- Prosecutor Confrontation Myth1 q · 3 choices
- Protected Risk Mismatch1 q · 3 choices
- Protected Side Waiver1 q · 3 choices
- Protectionist Effect Detection1 q · 3 choices
- Prove Away All Alternatives1 q · 3 choices
- Provocation Inadequacy1 q · 3 choices
- Provocation Misleads1 q · 3 choices
- Provocation Threshold1 q · 3 choices
- Proximate Cause Bait1 q · 3 choices
- Proximate Cause Conflation1 q · 3 choices
- Proximate Cause Mislabel1 q · 3 choices
- Proximity Fallacy1 q · 1 choice
- Prr Misapplication1 q · 3 choices
- Psi Misfit1 q · 3 choices
- Publication Element1 q · 3 choices
- Public Employment Privilege Myth1 q · 3 choices
- Public Function Bait1 q · 3 choices
- Public Importance Overreach1 q · 3 choices
- Public Private Conflict1 q · 3 choices
Misconception
3643 trapsThe student error it preys on
- Party Witness Bar1 q · 3 choices
- Part Performance Overuse1 q · 3 choices
- Part Performance Replaces Mutual Promises1 q · 3 choices
- Passenger Needs Individualized Suspicion1 q · 3 choices
- Passerby Status Controls1 q · 3 choices
- Past Conduct Always Means Ex Post Facto1 q · 3 choices
- Past Crime Equals Current Liability1 q · 3 choices
- Patient Must Always Be Warned Directly1 q · 3 choices
- Payer Receives Land1 q · 3 choices
- Payments Protect Against Due On Sale1 q · 3 choices
- Payment After Assignment Always Invalid1 q · 3 choices
- Payment As Formation Requirement1 q · 3 choices
- Payment Controls Title1 q · 3 choices
- Payment Cures Limit1 q · 3 choices
- Payment Equals Admission1 q · 3 choices
- Payment Equals Free Consent1 q · 3 choices
- Payment Means Consent1 q · 3 choices
- Payment Waits For Complete Order1 q · 3 choices
- Payor Breaches By Refusing Early Pay1 q · 3 choices
- Pc Required For Consensual Entry1 q · 3 choices
- Pedigree Errors Are Always Material1 q · 3 choices
- Perception Defect Same As Character Impeachment1 q · 3 choices
- Perfect Tender Applies To Installments1 q · 3 choices
- Perfect Tender Means Immediate Cancellation1 q · 3 choices
- Performance Always Creates Acceptance1 q · 3 choices
- Performance Date Controls Everything1 q · 3 choices
- Permanently Tainted Myth1 q · 3 choices
- Permanent Bar1 q · 3 choices
- Permanent Means Reasonable Time1 q · 3 choices
- Permission Can Be Retroactive1 q · 3 choices
- Permission To Hold Means Embezzlement1 q · 3 choices
- Permitted Purpose Words Are Magic1 q · 3 choices
- Personalty Never Gets Specific Performance1 q · 3 choices
- Personal Creation Required1 q · 3 choices
- Personal Firing Required1 q · 3 choices
- Personal Hardship Excuses Land Purchase1 q · 3 choices
- Personal Jurisdiction Never Waivable1 q · 3 choices
- Personal Knowledge Requires Verifying The Underlying Assertion1 q · 3 choices
- Personal Liability Bars Reimbursement1 q · 3 choices
- Personal Name Required1 q · 3 choices
- Personal Property Overclaim Negative1 q · 3 choices
- Personal Shot Required1 q · 3 choices
- PER Blocks Later Facts1 q · 3 choices
- Pe Measures Benefit Conferred1 q · 3 choices
- Pe Requires Consideration1 q · 3 choices
- Phone Equals Wallet1 q · 3 choices
- Photocopies Are Inadmissible1 q · 3 choices
- Photocopies Require Original Unavailability1 q · 3 choices
- Photocopy Is Not Best Evidence1 q · 3 choices
- Photograph Required If Available1 q · 3 choices
- Photo Array Per Se Suggestive1 q · 3 choices
- Physical Absence From The Permanent Home Destroys The Domicile1 q · 3 choices
- Physical Amount Equals Larceny Value1 q · 3 choices
- Physical Danger Always Required For NIED1 q · 3 choices
- Physical Display Equals Self Incrimination1 q · 3 choices
- Physical Divisibility Guarantees In Kind Partition1 q · 3 choices
- Physical Helper Is Guilty1 q · 3 choices
- Physical Invasion Required For Nuisance1 q · 3 choices
- Physical Motion Controls1 q · 3 choices
- Physical Object Auto Admit1 q · 3 choices