re: February 2014 Louisiana Bar Exam

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FIFY. I've always thought of the bar exam as a hazing ritual. The only people I know that have failed it are the ones who really did not put forth much effort in preparing for it. It's not "hard" in the sense of "this is really difficult material." It's just a process.

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It's pretty difficult material. The average person doesn't get into law school. Less people get into good law schools. Still less people do well in law school.

Those things are not prerequisites for passing the bar, but that is the class of people who simply need to put in the effort and coast on their natural ability. If you go to a bad law school your chances go way down. If you did poorly in law school your chances go down. It is a substantive test.

That is not some ode to lawyers, but the bar exam is pretty widely recognized for being a grueling and taxing intellectual experience. Now that I've taken one and prepped for another, I don't find it especially hard. But if you don't have the aptitude for law, which is the majority of people I'd guess, it's a pretty tough test.