I'm tired of being given the "inside scoop" and "special tips" that will help me on the bar exam. Almost everyone I know is taking BarBri, and the few that aren't being subjected to the daily hell on North Lamar are taking Micromash, which is a subsidiary of Thomson, the same company that owns BarBri.*
So, if basically everyone who takes the bar prepares for it with a bar review course run by Thompson, is there any real advantage to taking a bar review course? The tip Mr. Chemerinsky gave us today that the application of an ex post facto law to a civil case is always a wrong answer? Everyone knows it, so you gain nothing. Also, what is the point of a competitive edge when all you need to do is pass?
Yes, BarBri/Micromash gives you all the material you supposedly need to know, but the vast amount of information is entirely too much for me to process by the end of July, let alone remember. I bet if we all took the bar exam a week after graduation, giving us time to skim subjects we didn't take in law school like commercial paper or family law, our pass rate would be the same.
Speaking of pass rates, that is the source of comfort as well as one of frustration. If 90% of UT students pass the TX bar the first time around, what is the point of the bar exam? I think it is merely hazing. As a corollary, if you can learn everything you need to know to be a lawyer in a two-month period, what is the point of law school? In Brazil, a lawyer I worked with at the Ministry of Environment studied for and eventually passed an examination process to become a federal prosecutor. They had 4 rounds of examinations, and something like 2% of all people who take it pass. Now THAT is a bar exam.**
So, what will I do this afternoon now that I have convinced myself that studying for the bar (and the bar itself) is pointless and that the three days at the end of July are nothing but a frat boy initiation ceremony for professionals to be? Study. Because I really don't want to be part of the 10%.
*And the same company that owns Westlaw. It is all one gigantic scam.
**If we had the same process here, I would be a biologist.
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Maybe if you flew down to Carachmayo for a long weekend you would be less.....tense.
That would be one LONG bootie call. Worth it, though, unless she's dead, which she should be by now.
You could always exhume her.
Like you did last time.
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