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Did you know you'd fail the bar?

Post by Anonymous User » Mon Jul 16, 2018 9:06 pm

Final week panic before the bar: I can't tell if I'm ready. I still get below passing or slightly below passing on my practice essays, I'm pretty much at 50% accuracy on multiple choice, sometimes higher. I feel like I can feel the rules leaking out of my ear every day. I can't remember anything about trusts and wills even though I reviewed my outline a few days ago. I'm in a UBE jurisdiction.

The fear is at an all time peak. If you failed the bar, did you **know** before you took the exam? Could you tell after the exam that you just didn't make it? Or was it a surprise?

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Re: Did you know you'd fail the bar?

Post by Lawworld19 » Mon Jul 16, 2018 9:09 pm

Hahaha, I am curious as well. I can't tell if I am just not ready.

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Re: Did you know you'd fail the bar?

Post by Anonymous User » Mon Jul 16, 2018 11:54 pm

I'm def in freak out mode myself, but mainly cause I'm taking CA. You just got to grind the next few days. I feel like these next few days will be critical and when most of the material will start to click.

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Re: Did you know you'd fail the bar?

Post by goldenflash19 » Tue Jul 17, 2018 2:12 am

You’re over analyzing. Plenty of people who think they fail pass and vice-versa. Devote all your energy for the next week towards learning the material, and then you can ponder endlessly for 3 months whether you passed.

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Re: Did you know you'd fail the bar?

Post by totesTheGoat » Tue Jul 17, 2018 7:55 am

goldenflash19 wrote:You’re over analyzing. Plenty of people who think they fail pass and vice-versa. Devote all your energy for the next week towards learning the material, and then you can ponder endlessly for 3 months whether you passed.
This.

I KNEW that I failed the bar. I took the February bar after spending half of December and the first part of January packing up our house with my pregnant wife and moving us across the country. I got to 65% or 70% completion of Themis mainly by skipping anything that looked like it would take more than a few minutes to complete. All of my PT scores were marginal, at best. I was always in the "danger zone". I wrote all of one essay as practice, and there were 5 or 6 topics that I never even touched in preparation for the exam.

I was already planning for taking the July bar when the results came out that I passed.

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