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A. Nony Mouse

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Re: failing the bar

Post by A. Nony Mouse » Sun Aug 11, 2013 12:51 pm

run26.2 wrote:Here are two posts by a Prof. at Pepperdine that arguably show the relative difficulty of each state's bar by accounting for the quality of students taking the exams from accredited schools only. The first uses LSAT and GPA, and the second using LSAT:

http://witnesseth.typepad.com/blog/2013 ... exams.html
http://witnesseth.typepad.com/blog/2013 ... exams.html

DE, which people speculate may be more difficult than CA, is not included in the results. But aside from omitting, DE, his conclusion is that CA is the hardest.
Not really addressing the point I was making, but okay.

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Re: failing the bar

Post by run26.2 » Sun Aug 11, 2013 1:05 pm

A. Nony Mouse wrote:
run26.2 wrote:Here are two posts by a Prof. at Pepperdine that arguably show the relative difficulty of each state's bar by accounting for the quality of students taking the exams from accredited schools only. The first uses LSAT and GPA, and the second using LSAT:

http://witnesseth.typepad.com/blog/2013 ... exams.html
http://witnesseth.typepad.com/blog/2013 ... exams.html

DE, which people speculate may be more difficult than CA, is not included in the results. But aside from omitting, DE, his conclusion is that CA is the hardest.
Not really addressing the point I was making, but okay.
I don't know of a study that gets at the point you were making. It is a valid one--those people skew the results. Just trying to show that despite that, it still is hard relative to others (possibly the hardest), but you seem to agree with that. I'll stop beating a dead horse.

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