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re: How hard is the bar exam?
Posted on 3/27/20 at 8:45 pm to HawkeyeHankHatfield
Posted on 3/27/20 at 8:45 pm to HawkeyeHankHatfield
The MBE was a bitch. I basically just put everything into the Texas essays around July 4th and passed comfortably.
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Posted on 3/27/20 at 8:46 pm to Joshjrn
We took the test at some barn looking place in Gonzales. There were groups of people sitting in lawn chairs in the parking lot taking that trip to crunk town before the last few people had even turned their test in. Good times.
Posted on 3/27/20 at 8:50 pm to SlowFlowPro
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in LA it's not hard but it's a motherfricking endurance contest
I think that is the aptest description. I took the SC and NC bars back to back in the same week with the multi-state in between. I never planned to do that but the firm that hired me basically forced me to do it. My only saving grace was I had planned to take the SC bar but went to law school in NC so I had a good understanding of NC law and recent (at the time) NC Supreme Court decisions. I have never been so mentally drained.
Bar exams are easier if you can memorize huge volumes of information quickly, process law exam type questions efficiently and write or type at the speed of light.
Posted on 3/27/20 at 8:54 pm to Obtuse1
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write or type at the speed of light.
I was pecking at almost 60 wpm after tons of practice. It is exhausting to move your hands around that fricking much.
Typing speed gives a huge advantage.
Posted on 3/27/20 at 9:00 pm to t00f
She is a Bar Tender - her expertise is opening a bottle of beer
Posted on 3/27/20 at 9:05 pm to Obtuse1
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type at the speed of light.
105wpm. Not sure how I would have managed, otherwise
Posted on 3/27/20 at 9:05 pm to HawkeyeHankHatfield
Took (and passed) California and Louisiana back to back many many years ago. I found them similarly difficult for different reasons. Having gone to an out of state law school, learning Civil law was like learning another language.
Posted on 3/27/20 at 9:11 pm to Demshoes
fricking amazing how a general bar exam question leads to multiple replies about a congressperson who has never taken said exam.
MILLENNIAL CONGRESS LADY BAD
MILLENNIAL CONGRESS LADY BAD
Posted on 3/27/20 at 9:12 pm to AlonsoWDC
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MILLENNIAL CONGRESS LADY BAD
I wanna squeeze em
Posted on 3/27/20 at 9:15 pm to NIH
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The MBE was a bitch.
I took the Louisiana bar exam in the fall and the Alabama exam in the spring. The MBE was so damn easy it was a joke.
Posted on 3/27/20 at 9:18 pm to Joshjrn
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105wpm. Not sure how I would have managed, otherwise
I took it back in the day when I think only 3 people typed the Bar in both states combined. Back then I had a right hand made from steel and could write very quickly for hours on end. I still do rough drafts of documents with a pen but I start to cramp after a little more than a blue book page worth of writing. Even if all I had to do was copy the "perfect" answers today I would fail if I had to write them. My typing is close to 90wpm today so I might be OK typing.
Posted on 3/27/20 at 9:21 pm to HawkeyeHankHatfield
If you went to a real law school, it is not hard. If you went to Southern, it is very very hard.
Posted on 3/27/20 at 9:23 pm to Joshjrn
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105wpm. Not sure how I would have managed, otherwise
You can type the law courses and bar exam answers now?
Posted on 3/27/20 at 9:29 pm to HawkeyeHankHatfield
Depends on the state you do it for. It also depends on if your working at the time. Taking the Wyoming bar in the summer before your hired is different than taking the NYC bar when you’re already putting in 85 hours a week.
Posted on 3/27/20 at 9:36 pm to TSLG
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I was pecking at almost 60 wpm after tons of practice.
Those are rookie numbers. You gotta get those numbers up.
Posted on 3/27/20 at 9:42 pm to HawkeyeHankHatfield
Didn’t JohnnyKillroy fail it? He’s the smartest person on this board, so if he failed it, I’d assume it’s impossible.
Posted on 3/27/20 at 9:44 pm to mikelbr
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You can type the law courses and bar exam answers now?
Yep. Even a decade ago, the number of handwriters were vanishingly small. Unless my memory betrays me, we used some super temperamental software called ExamSoft (creative, right?). You had a personal code and there was a code for the exam. It essentially looked like a cut rate word processor, but once you started the exam, the program basically hijacked your computer. Couldn’t do anything else until you were done. Any attempt to circumvent this and do something outside of the program was logged and sent to your professor and would be considered cheating.
Posted on 3/27/20 at 9:53 pm to El Mattadorr
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Those are rookie numbers. You gotta get those numbers up.
When I started the children's typing software game, I was at like 35. 60 was after getting the numbers up.
105? Thats impressive af.
Posted on 3/27/20 at 9:54 pm to HawkeyeHankHatfield
I passed it...can’t be that hard. But it is a very butt puckering 3 days.
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