Thursday, July 30, 2009

Top 10 Reasons You Failed the Bar Exam

10. Wall to Wall Michael Jackson coverage cost you two valuable weeks of studying.

9. You fell into a coma during the Sotomayor hearings and only woke up two days before test day.

8. Instead of starting to “bear down” after Independence Day, you coasted until after Bastille Day.

7. Inspired by Sarah Palin, you lost a week thinking that the best way to achieve your goals is to quit.

6. Your law firm broke up with you two weeks ago and you’re still a wreck.

5. You got arrested crawling through the window of your apartment because you forgot your keys.

4. Bar/Bri gave you a score of “Are you kidding me?” on your first graded essay question.

3. Worried that Obama might slip a question on nationalized health care into the MBE, you spent five days trying to understand the 1,000 page House bill.

2. Kaplan’s three-day MBE seminar only helped you eliminate one of the four choices on most of the multiple choice questions.

1. You were counting on everything in your life being deferred for a year.

2 comments:

Cliff Tuttle said...

How about:

11. You got married three days before the cram course began, or

12. You started a new job one week into the cram course.

I did both. Thus, I had the morning for bar review, the afternoon at work and the evening with my (then) new wife.

I estimate that I actually studied 30 seconds, give or take a minute.

By some dumb luck, I passed. Of course, that was 1973 and things may be different now.

Cliff Tuttle
Pittsburgh Legal Back Talk

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