Category: Bar Exam

Congratulations to everyone who took the bar exam, it’s over! VA was nice enough to hold off on the painful UCC3/9 stuff but the MBE was maybe a bit tougher than usual. The good news is, it’s over. Hopefully the results will come in promptly this time around. I’ll post when I hear when they expect results to be posted for DC, VA, NY, MD and CA. Good luck to everyone and have a great rest of the summer.

With exactly 3 weeks to go until the bar exam, this was a pretty bad weekend for a storm of epic proportions to roll through the area and knock out power to millions of people. Hopefully those of you who are without power are able to go to a local library or some other cooling center to continue your studies. If your study schedule was thrown off this past weekend, don’t dwell on it. Just look forward and keep your eyes on the prize. You may need to adjust your schedule from now until the exam, possibly adding an extra hour or so each day or maybe even canceling some 4th of July plans you had, but the reward of passing the bar exam is worth it. This is now the critical time to be studying since with less than 3 weeks you should be able to retain most of what you study/review at this point. If you’ve been avoiding certain subjects because they are hard/boring/challenging/whatever, you need to start focusing on those subjects ASAP.

With exactly 5 calendar weeks until the July 2012 bar exam, it’s go time. It’s usually at this point with just over a month to go that people start to panic, which is normal. Usually most folks still don’t feel comfortable with even a small portion of the material. Most people aren’t killing it on any one subject on their practice MBE questions, and essays are still pretty confusing. This is quite normal. The bar exam has a bunch of subjects and not enough time to test them all so we find ourselves studying for subjects we don’t even know will be tested. It’s super frustrating and yet we have no choice since it’s the way the game is played. So, the natural result of this is that we don’t feel comfortable with all of these various subjects until later in the summer. Sometimes, not even until 1 week before the bar exam. And, for those of us who have taken bar exams before, (more…)