Right. So I was planning on writing a lovely post about having fun tonight! Enjoying yourself! Don’t get your wallet stolen like me some girl last year that I heard about. (What? Getting your wallet stolen the day you finish the bar exam & having the slime ball use all your credit cards in a twenty minute span including your parents leading to a drunken slightly tipsy 3 am phone call home isn’t good luck? Huh. Who knew?)
Right. Then I did some digging & checked out the rumor-mill for how those poor Illinoisans did today.
It wasn’t pretty.
Apparently Bar-Bri was a little off in their guesstimations. Apparently no one knew the essay topics. Apparently y’all went home and cried like little girls. (Can’t say I blame you. )
Right. About being uplifting…well some of you have to pass. That is just how it works. From the sounds of it no one knew what they were doing on day one so it has to even out the playing field.
That and Mayor Daley failed it twice. So really, don’t you feel better now?
Did I ever tell you that here in SC they tell you ahead of time which topics you’ll write essays on during each time slot? And there are 2 days of essay writing. Day 1 is multistate. Yeah, it’s kind of crazy. So, the year I took the exam (many moons ago) the guy who was supposed to write the UCC section wrote insurance questions instead. Wha? Yeah. So, I was psyched ’cause I’d taken insurance my 3d year but wasn’t too knowledgeable on the UCC. Meanwhile, some Campbell students, who were taking both NC & SC bars that week (this was so long ago you could still do that) were FREAKING out because insurance was the one subject that was on SC but not NC, so they’d strategically decided not to learn it, because in SC you can fail one essay section (of 12, I think) and still pass. They were flipping the eff out. Luckily, during lunch break that day, the Supreme Court was consulted, and it was proclaimed that everyone passed UCC.
Other than that, I can’t think about the bar exam, because after 12 (yes, 12) years I have quite successfully eradicated the topic from my brain and memory.
It sounds like it was nasty. Yikes.
From the sound of your Tweets we’re hoping your Thursday goes better than today….
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Ok, as someone who just took the IL bar… it really wasn’t as bad as people are saying. The only thing that threw people for a loop was a one subpart (of 4) on one of three questions in the IEE… and it was asking what a “statute of repose” was… which you could BS from the context of the question. Honestly, it could have been far worse. People are just whiners.
everyone i know that took IL was throwing a fit tuesday night. and people who took NY were tested on stuff barbri specifically told them to ignore.
here in CA, tuesday was fine in terms of essays, but today there were two crim pro subparts that barbri never mentioned to us–but if you knew anything about crimpro at all, you should have been able to BS it (i apparently managed to guess correctly even tho i never took the class). and people were whining about our conlaw question because apparently some people couldn’t deduce that when congress delegates power to an exec agency, you still apply the commerce clause to the agency’s regulations…yeaaah.