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
- Visual Prejudice Trap1 q · 3 choices
- Vm Awareness Not Intent1 q · 3 choices
- Voice Exemplar1 q · 3 choices
- Voluntariness Detour1 q · 3 choices
- Voluntariness Irrelevance1 q · 3 choices
- Voluntary Act Later Choice1 q · 3 choices
- Voluntary Association Limitation1 q · 3 choices
- Voluntary Dismissal Reversal1 q · 3 choices
- Voluntary Entry Ongoing Consent Confusion1 q · 3 choices
- Voluntary Intoxication As Full Defense1 q · 3 choices
- Voluntary Only Waiver1 q · 3 choices
- Voluntary Opening Consent Mislabel1 q · 3 choices
- Voluntary Payment Detour1 q · 3 choices
- Volunteered Statement1 q · 3 choices
- Volunteer Rescue Label1 q · 3 choices
- Wade Lineup Only Trap1 q · 3 choices
- Waiver By Urging Trap1 q · 3 choices
- Waiver Fabrication1 q · 3 choices
- Waiver Neighbor Trap1 q · 3 choices
- Waiver Of Unattached Right1 q · 3 choices
- Waiver Overlooked1 q · 3 choices
- Waiver Overreach1 q · 3 choices
- Warning Fact Misrouting1 q · 3 choices
- Warning Need1 q · 3 choices
- Warn Every Natural Condition Mislabel1 q · 3 choices
- Warrant1 q · 1 choice
- Warrantless Search1 q · 1 choice
- Warranty Covenant Offpoint1 q · 3 choices
- Warranty Deed Bait1 q · 3 choices
- Warranty Deed Detour1 q · 3 choices
- Warranty Deed Misread1 q · 3 choices
- Warranty Deed Title Condition Confusion1 q · 3 choices
- Warranty Without Reliance1 q · 3 choices
- Warrant Challenge Independence1 q · 3 choices
- Warrant Exception Identification1 q · 3 choices
- Warrant Looks Lawful1 q · 3 choices
- Waste1 q · 3 choices
- Weak Original View1 q · 3 choices
- Weapon Cue Overread1 q · 3 choices
- Weapon Risk1 q · 3 choices
- Weight Objection Disguised As Exclusion1 q · 1 choice
- Well Being Bridge1 q · 3 choices
- Well Pleaded Complaint Bait1 q · 3 choices
- Wharton S Rule Scope1 q · 3 choices
- Whole Home Consent1 q · 3 choices
- Whole Property Lien Overclaim1 q · 3 choices
- Who Asked First Irrelevance1 q · 3 choices
- Who Asked Irrelevance1 q · 3 choices
- Who Offers It1 q · 3 choices
- Who Said It1 q · 3 choices
- Wild Deed1 q · 3 choices
- Wills Vs Survivorship1 q · 3 choices
- Will Before Title1 q · 3 choices
- Will Devisee Dominant Trap1 q · 3 choices
- Will Formality Bait1 q · 3 choices
- Will Severance Confusion1 q · 3 choices
- Will Silence Trap1 q · 3 choices
- Wisdom Of Policy Red Herring1 q · 3 choices
- Wise Policy Red Herring1 q · 1 choice
- Withdrawal Trap1 q · 3 choices
Misconception
3643 trapsThe student error it preys on
- Substantial Performance Applies Everywhere1 q · 3 choices
- Substantial Performance For Goods1 q · 3 choices
- Substantial Performance Overrides Condition1 q · 3 choices
- Substantial Step Explains All Inchoate Crimes1 q · 3 choices
- Substantial Step Is Enough1 q · 3 choices
- Substantial Step Required For Solicitation1 q · 3 choices
- Substantive Admissibility Overclaim1 q · 3 choices
- Substantive Fee Answer Beats Process1 q · 3 choices
- Substantive Only Reflex1 q · 3 choices
- Substitute Purchase Is A Defense1 q · 3 choices
- Substituting Efficiency For Constitutional Test1 q · 3 choices
- Successful Taking Equals Robbery1 q · 3 choices
- Success Required For Burglary1 q · 3 choices
- Sudden Excitement Means Voluntary Manslaughter1 q · 3 choices
- Sue On Contract After Merger1 q · 3 choices
- Sufferance Means Any Weak Occupancy1 q · 3 choices
- Sufficiency Means Single Fact1 q · 3 choices
- Suit For Due Installments Equals Claim Splitting1 q · 3 choices
- Summary Judgment Available During Trial1 q · 3 choices
- Superseding Cause Is The Acquittal Reason1 q · 3 choices
- Superseding Cause Solves Agency Theory1 q · 3 choices
- Supervening Illegality Only Triggers Impracticability1 q · 3 choices
- Supplemental Jurisdiction Controls Personal Jurisdiction Motion1 q · 3 choices
- Supplemental Pleadings Are Limited To Pre Filing Events1 q · 3 choices
- Supplementation Is Automatic1 q · 3 choices
- Supplier Automatically Guilty1 q · 3 choices
- Supplier Role Equals Target Crime Intent1 q · 3 choices
- Support Friend Always Necessary1 q · 3 choices
- Support Liability Is Always Strict1 q · 3 choices
- Support Requires An Express Easement1 q · 3 choices
- Suppression Challenges Sufficiency1 q · 3 choices
- Suppression Result Enough Without Correct Reason1 q · 3 choices
- Suppression Stops At Lineup1 q · 3 choices
- Surplus Always Belongs To Owner1 q · 3 choices
- Survivorship Creates A New Priority Date1 q · 3 choices
- Survivor Takes In Tic1 q · 3 choices
- Suspicion Is Evidence1 q · 3 choices
- Suspicious Means Admissible1 q · 3 choices
- Sworn Means Admissible1 q · 3 choices
- Sympathetic Class Means Strict Scrutiny1 q · 3 choices
- Sympathetic Motivation Equals Reasonable Conduct1 q · 2 choices
- Sympathy Can Replace Evidence1 q · 3 choices
- Sympathy Over Rule1 q · 3 choices
- Sympathy To Heightened Scrutiny1 q · 3 choices
- Synonym Trap Claim Preclusion1 q · 3 choices
- Tacit Agreement Required1 q · 3 choices
- Takings Protects Employment1 q · 3 choices
- Takings Requires Physical Entry1 q · 3 choices
- Taking Subject To Means Assuming The Loan1 q · 3 choices
- Target Crime Must Already Be Complete1 q · 3 choices
- Target Intent Controls1 q · 3 choices
- Target Must Be Willing1 q · 3 choices
- Taunting Is A Defense1 q · 3 choices
- Taxpayers Never Have Standing1 q · 3 choices
- Tax Motive Makes It Testamentary1 q · 3 choices
- Technical Hearsay Phrase Must Be Right1 q · 3 choices
- Technical Label Confusion1 q · 3 choices
- Technical Phrase Equals Correct1 q · 3 choices
- Technical Property Doctrine Always Applies1 q · 3 choices
- Temporal Priority Myth1 q · 3 choices