Bar exam venting
Over at Jeremy Richey’s Blawg there’s a long thread about people’s reactions to the bar exam. I linked to it before but it has grown since and it remains somewhat reassuring to know that most everyone felt the MBE was a killer.
The bar exam ended two weeks ago today for most of us. Two weeks. It seems like the exam was about a decade ago. Studying for and taking it was like living in a 6-week twilight zone.
Anwyay, if you’re getting nervous about your results you might, like me, find some reassurance by reminding yourself again that everyone thought it was hard and felt awful.
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August 9th, 2006 at 6:21 pm
I took the bar exam seven years ago and I still can’t get over how hard the MBE was. I remember so many questions where I read through the whole question, formulated what the correct answer was, then read the choices and discovered that nothing close to my answer was one of the choices. It was a truly miserable experience. I recently moved to Washington state, and thank god I could get in through reciprocity, but I learned that they do not use the MBE. I heard some lawyers saying that they believe Washington’s bar exam is the hardest because it’s all essay–no multiple choice. I asked them if they had even seen MBE multiple choice questions and they admitted they hadn’t. I told them I would have taken an all-essay any day over that damn MBE! So, this long-winded post was really just to let you know that it has always sucked, but almost everyone I know did a lot better on it then they expected. I hope it’s the same for you!
August 10th, 2006 at 10:14 pm
I imagine your job prevents you from posting many thoughts about Montana’s impending execution. It just makes me sick reading the comments people post on the Gazette’s website.