Keeping Supplements to Study for Bar Exam Forum

[Amy wineBerry]

I had a discussion today with a few law school colleagues. Some people said they were keeping their supplements to use them to study for the bar exam. Are the E&Es and commercial outlines that helpful when studying for the bar exam to encourage one to keep them? My thoughts were that they may help get through a class, but not necessarily the bar exam. Thoughts? I'm particularly interested in hearing from anyone who has taken the bar exam.

[Miniver]

Some people said they were keeping their supplements to use them to study for the bar exam.

These people are being ridiculous, and they will realize this once they start studying for the bar. On the bright side, at least you now know that some people in your jurisdiction will be engaging in stupid study tactics, thereby increasing your chances of success. You would do well to not discourage this behavior.

[mikeytwoshoes]

Some people said they were keeping their supplements to use them to study for the bar exam.

These people are being ridiculous, and they will realize this once they start studying for the bar. On the bright side, at least you now know that some people in your jurisdiction will be engaging in stupid study tactics, thereby increasing your chances of success. You would do well to not discourage this behavior.

Current-stated intention to study stupidly=/=actual stupid studying on the bar exam.

[RVP11]

Some people said they were keeping their supplements to use them to study for the bar exam.

These people are being ridiculous, and they will realize this once they start studying for the bar. On the bright side, at least you now know that some people in your jurisdiction will be engaging in stupid study tactics, thereby increasing your chances of success. You would do well to not discourage this behavior.

Current-stated intention to study stupidly=/=actual stupid studying on the bar exam.

Also, I don't think "other people's failures = your success" is true when it comes to the bar. Isn't it theoretically for every person who takes the bar to pass it?

[Miniver]

Current-stated intention to study stupidly=/=actual stupid studying on the bar exam.

Obviously. It should be clear that I intended to convey that the less you discourage that intent, the greater the likelihood of it coming to pass. Nit-pick away.

Also, I don't think "other people's failures = your success" is true when it comes to the bar. Isn't it theoretically for every person who takes the bar to pass it?

Scores aren't curved, but they are scaled. If many, many people do poorly, the scores will be scaled to compensate for the (interpreted) difficulty of the exam in relation to prior exams, which will result in you getting a better scaled score than you otherwise would have gotten had the vast majority of people done well on the exam; and it's the scaled score that matters. Of course, everyone could theoretically pass the exam, but it will be harder to do the better everyone does.

[Amy wineBerry]

Thanks for all the insightful (and hilarious) thoughts lol.

Smh at my classmates. Grades haven't even come out yet, and they're already on "studying for the bar exam." Don't even know if these supplements helped get through the class...