Reddit reviews Strategies & Tactics for MPRE 2009 Edition

No, there isn't a negative consequence.

Just take the friggin' test. I studied for 4–5 hours (no drugs or Adderall, Jesus, Christ) and passed with a score of 111. I did not study for any more than that.

Review your outline from your professional responsibility course. Read this book's first couple of chapters from your law library.

The gist is this: (i) know the Rules as well as possible and (ii) the answers have one, clearly-correct answer. Eliminate each one you can, of course.

Best practice tip I can give is ID'ing the mental state of the actor. "The lawyer (reasonably) believed/knew this-and-that." Pick out the lawyer's or judge's state-of-mind and you're golden on most questions; those states-of-mind will match up (or not) perfectly with the Model Rule's requirements for mental states.