California Bar Exam (July 2013) thread Forum

[a male human]

I still don't get how they scale the LSAT since there are 3 different versions or something, with the sections in different order. People will react differently to each arrangement (like I did when I had my worst subject, RC, on sections 3 and 5, when I was most tired, especially after that horrible dinosaur LG that I thought was the experimental).

[a male human]

I don't know about you guys, but I found that mbe pretty hard. Felt unsure about many questions

[desertlaw]

I don't know about you guys, but I found that mbe pretty hard. Felt unsure about many questions

Felt like our instructor is more and more like Herman Cain every time I hear him speak.

[Old Gregg]

I don't know about you guys, but I found that mbe pretty hard. Felt unsure about many questions

same. i personally rated it harder than average, but not batshit barbri mpq hard.

[Reinhardt]

*goes on Facebook, sees everyone in other states overjoyed the bar is done*
*gets ready for another day of extreme emotional distress*

[worldtraveler]

I don't know about you guys, but I found that mbe pretty hard. Felt unsure about many questions

same. i personally rated it harder than average, but not batshit barbri mpq hard.

There were quite a few questions that I had no idea what to put. Definitely harder than a lot of the practice exams (and I did every question released on adaptibar).

[Old Gregg]

Thought PM was slightly easier than average, if not average.

[cavalierattitude]

I pulled up a random CP-PR hybrid from last year and its sample answers. Answer A was about 2400 words; B was about 2900. Much shorter than I thought.

lol, I wrote about 500 words for the first and third essays and 1500 for the second.

[Entellus]

Thought PM was slightly easier than average, if not average.

Nuts I thought AM and PM were both hard.

[Reinhardt]

AM harder than PM, but neither was a walk in the park.

[Emma.]

The afternoon... Oooof.

[Kretzy]

Thought PM was slightly easier than average, if not average.

Nuts I thought AM and PM were both hard.

Same. I thought PM was easier than AM, but both were harder than average.

[deadlinguo]

Today was rough. There were only a few that I had absolutely no clue about, but I had to make 50/50 guesses on roughly half the exam. Shit.

[Old Gregg]

My perception about PM could be being swayed by how hard AM was. They both definitely weren't walks in the park.

[deadlinguo]

And what was up with all the mortgage questions? It seemed like there was at least one of them every 10 or so.

[Old Gregg]

Today was rough. There were only a few that I had absolutely no clue about, but I had to make 50/50 guesses on roughly half the exam. Shit.

Yeah, I felt like I knew the answer to 20% of the questions, had a "hunch" on the answer (but have a high probability of being wrong) on 70% of the questions, and didn't know anything about 10% of the questions.

[courtneylove]

i thought AM was super easy sprinkled with a few wtfs, but PM was tricky and difficult throughout. think we all had the same question set at the same time?

[worldtraveler]

And what was up with all the mortgage questions? It seemed like there was at least one of them every 10 or so.

Ugh. Those are my least favorite questions and there were so many.

[rorystewart]

Predictions for tomorrow!

[vacations]

definitely thought PM was harder than AM...we all have different versions right? doesn't help that everybody near me finished super early.

[Emma.]

Thought PM was slightly easier than average, if not average.

Nuts I thought AM and PM were both hard.

Same. I thought PM was easier than AM, but both were harder than average.

Both sucked, but for me the morning was way easier. Today was like yesterday all over again.

[deadlinguo]

definitely thought PM was harder than AM...we all have different versions right? doesn't help that everybody near me finished super early.

Well, I left early because towards the end the frustration was getting to me so I rushed through the last 15 questions, didn't double check anything, just raised my hand as soon as I penciled in number 200. And plus I didn't want to get stuck in traffic.

[huckabees]

My thoughts:

1) Why did they have all the long questions in the AM and all the short questions in PM? (Or maybe reversed depending on what form we got)
2) I don't even remember any property questions outside of mortgages or servitudes, save for one question on a statutory RAP
3) Conlaw questions quite dissimilar to Adaptibar's
4) Crim pro questions I was not very familiar with
5) Certain evidence questions on whether FRE applies? Don't even remember seeing any of those in practice Qs
6) Only Ks seemed "normal," and maybe crim (outside of crim pro)
7) Overall, I felt like I simply didn't know the rules for many more questions than in practice questions, rather than being unsure of which rule applied or how to correctly apply it

Probably have more thoughts, but can't remember them at the moment.

[JDCA2012]

think we all had the same question set at the same time?

Yeah I mean we would have had to, right? So that people don't talk about it at lunch when they had different sets?

Today was rough. There were only a few that I had absolutely no clue about, but I had to make 50/50 guesses on roughly half the exam. Shit.

This is how I felt. Fuck. I fucking had 50/50 on like half of the fucking questions. Jesus. I felt walking out of there like I got a 30%
Fuck. I'll be taking Feb.

[Another]

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