Georgia bar exam Forum

[peachtreeclub]

I took the attorney exam in Georgia. I'm so nervous I can't concentrate on anything. Just looking to vent until results come out.

[Assumpsit]

That's just the state essays/MPT, right ? I'm really nervous on the two hardest essay questions that everyone just smoked them and I just filled up 4500+ characters with nonsense. Its so maddening that there's so little info on past GA essay scoring etc... like, if I did well on MPT and average on MBE do I have a good shot of passing even if I did stinky on the essays?

[peachtreeclub]

Yes. Apparently they don't take your old Multistate score, they just give you the bare minimum passing for the Multistate, and combine it with whatever you got on the essays/MPT. So everything is riding on the essays, and I did the same thing, just brain dumped for pages. ugh. I have no idea how the MPT vs. essays are weighed.

[NonTradHealthLaw]

I believe this is correct:
MBE = 50%
MPT = 21.4% (10.7% each)
GA essays = 28.6% (7.15% each)

[sch0123]

Checking in. Took the full exam. Totally distracted by the impending score release. Literally no clue how I'm gonna pass in February while working full-time if I didn't manage to pass the July exam. The next few couple weeks are going to be brutal.

[Assumpsit]

Any word on the EXACT release data/time? I don't wanna be a nervous wreck constantly checking like I was for LSAT over a 4 day span. That was awful.

[sch0123]

Supposedly October 24 is the day. Do not know what time the scores will be released though. Thank the lord it's a friday - probably not going to want to come into work the next day, be the news positive or negative.

[peachtreeclub]

Looks like 10/24 at 4:30.

https://www.gabaradmissions.org/news.action?id=300

Did anyone hear that they send out letters before this date?? I heard that if you passed you get a letter, and depending on where you live, you may get the letter before the results come out.

[NonTradHealthLaw]

Last year if I recall they released a bit earlier than the 4:30 stated time and the GaBar website crashed. Fortunately, someone pdf-ed a screen grab and shared a dropbox link. I encourage someone to do the same this year.

[Assumpsit]

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[Rooney]

A lot of people at work told me that any friends I have clerking for judges would get the results that morning because they send them to the judges early. Told a clerk friend, who called the state bar--not happening.

Gonna be a looooong Friday...

[RCSOB657]

Good luck from a fellow Georgian.

[sch0123]

Can anyone confirm that those of us who live close will get letters in the mail on friday? Have been given off work on Friday b/c of the impending results, and am wondering if I should be expecting to find out when the mailman shows up (I live a few miles from the Office of Bar Admissions). Really not keen on agonizing all day Friday (like I haven't been agonizing thus far...)

[emotiondetector]

Can anyone confirm that those of us who live close will get letters in the mail on friday?

For what it's worth, I called the office on Wednesday morning about a new address change. The person on the other line said they have not printed out the envelopes yet. So I doubt you will receive anything in the mail on Friday.

[peachtreeclub]

Thank for that info. Just so I understand, you called LAST Wednesday, or today?

[emotiondetector]

Just so I understand, you called LAST Wednesday, or today?

Today, October 22, 2014.

[Albatross]

Has anyone noticed that the GA bar site says we will receive notification of the results under the admissions documents tabs and additionally that a list will be posted at 4:30 PM.

I wonder if both will be updated at the same time? Any other thoughts?

[emotiondetector]

Has anyone noticed that the GA bar site says we will receive notification of the results under the admissions documents tabs and additionally that a list will be posted at 4:30 PM.

I wonder if both will be updated at the same time? Any other thoughts?

I've reread and reread that post. I took it to mean that we will receive notification earlier in the morning while the list will be posted at 4:30. I took this to mean that they will let the applicants know individually before everyone else knows whether said applicant passed.

I believe this because my brother-in-law told me last year, they accidentally released the list earlier and someone texted him congratulations before he knew himself. I think they are trying to stop this from happening.

Just what I think. But who the fuck knows?

[Albatross]

Has anyone noticed that the GA bar site says we will receive notification of the results under the admissions documents tabs and additionally that a list will be posted at 4:30 PM.

I wonder if both will be updated at the same time? Any other thoughts?

I've reread and reread that post. I took it to mean that we will receive notification earlier in the morning while the list will be posted at 4:30. I took this to mean that they will let the applicants know individually before everyone else knows whether said applicant passed.

I believe this because my brother-in-law told me last year, they accidentally released the list earlier and someone texted him congratulations before he knew himself. I think they are trying to stop this from happening.

Just what I think. But who the fuck knows?

I hope you're right. At least you could get shit faced before all your friends find out you failed.

[Rooney]

Time is going too slowly. Actually felt excited and confident today...until I started reading TLS forums. Back to anxiety.

[Southpaw11]

I just logged into my account, and there is a button to "start a new application." Does anyone else have this?

[peachtreeclub]

I also have this. anyone else?

[Southpaw11]

Hopefully, it's not a "see you next February" sign haha.

But I do know they just opened up registration for everyone for the February and July bar of '15. Maybe it's just a system thing.

[LSAT Taker]

That button has been there for at least ten days (presumably for everyone with an active account), and I am pretty certain that it has no relationship with the results to be released within the next fifteen hours or so.

[LSAT Taker]

The GA Office of Bar Admission has just removed the February 2014 Pass List from its website, indicating that its posting of a new list is imminent.