The Feb 2013 Virginia bar exam is over. The questions were right in line with predictions and the MBE (to be discussed in a later post) was average. Question 1 started out with property, a Virginia favorite, followed by my favorite local govt law and VA Civ pro for question 2. Question 3 was a hybrid wills and Prof Responsibility question. The fourth questions was UCC2, sales, and finishing up the questions for the morning section was our old friend corporations. The afternoon gave us another local govt question followed by the evil subject known as creditors rights which was mixed with more corporations and property. There was a nice Federal Jurisdiction question, and then finally, a nice gift of a question featuring personal property and wills. Short answer/multiple choice were straightforward as always, with a few gimmies and a couple head scratchers, but nothing crazy. It was interesting to see the bar examiners leave out UCC 3 and 9 (thank you!) and go a big lighter than usual on the VA civ procedure (thank you again!). Depending on how you studied for this exam, it either seemed very hard, or tough, but fair.
Good luck to everyone that took the exam! I’ll post estimated dates for when bar exams across the country will be posting their results. Got a few months of painful waiting until then, so try and think about something else other than the exam for the time being.
2 replies on “Virginia Feb 2013 Bar Exam Essay Analysis”
Uhhh, pretty sure that last question was a U.C.C. Art. 3 Question; U.S. Bonds are bearer instruments.
That was a pure wills question. No discussion of UCC3 was needed for full credit nor would any points be given for discussing UCC3.