Welcome to Multiple-Choice Questions: Part One. In this lesson, we’ll explain the general format of law-school multiple-choice questions. In the next lesson, we’ll share specific tips to help you tackle these questions.

Multiple-choice questions are becoming ever-more prevalent on law exams, mainly in response to the Multistate Bar Examination, or MBE. Administered as part of the bar exam in the District of Columbia and every state but Louisiana, the MBE is a rigorous battery of 200...