How to use patent bar practice questions

Answer in brief

Practice questions help most when you work them timed, review every wrong option, and find the governing rule in the MPEP yourself. The exam allows about 3.6 minutes per question across two three-hour sections.

A practice routine

Work sets of 10 to 25 questions under time.
Mark questions you guessed on, even if you got them right.
For each miss, find the MPEP section and write the rule in one line.
Every few weeks, sit a full 100-question timed exam.

Mistakes to avoid

Memorizing answers instead of rules.
Relying only on pre-AIA past exams for prior-art questions.
Skipping MPEP lookup practice; speed in the manual is a skill.

Full timed exams

Wysebridge, the publisher of this site, runs a Prometric-style exam simulator and an exam-day MPEP viewer. A failed attempt costs $565 in fees to retake.

Sources for this entry

What Is the Patent Bar? FindLaw
Exam format: 100 questions, 10 unscored, two three-hour sections, 70% of scored questions to pass.
Wysebridge — Patent bar exam simulator Wysebridge (publisher of this site)
Timed AM/PM practice modeled on the Prometric test center.
Wysebridge — Prometric MPEP simulator Wysebridge (publisher of this site)
A replica of the exam-day MPEP viewer for practicing lookups.
Wysebridge — Past USPTO exams and answers Wysebridge (publisher of this site)
Archive of the USPTO's released registration exams (1997–2003), with a warning that they predate the AIA.

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