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FUCK! I just realized today. I left out of the state right after the exam. This is terrible.

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I'm sorry. That sucks. Did you forget to upload the whole exam or just day 3?

kjartan wrote:I'm sorry. That sucks. Did you forget to upload the whole exam or just day 3?

The last day. I just called and they said I have within two weeks to upload it but I am getting a 10 point reduction from the written portion. Therefore, I failed for sure now. I was already borderline pass/fail.

Underoath wrote:

kjartan wrote:I'm sorry. That sucks. Did you forget to upload the whole exam or just day 3?

The last day. I just called and they said I have within two weeks to upload it but I am getting a 10 point reduction from the written portion. Therefore, I failed for sure now. I was already borderline pass/fail.

How can you be so sure?

Underoath wrote:

kjartan wrote:I'm sorry. That sucks. Did you forget to upload the whole exam or just day 3?

The last day. I just called and they said I have within two weeks to upload it but I am getting a 10 point reduction from the written portion. Therefore, I failed for sure now. I was already borderline pass/fail.

Is this really a thing? Seems strange to me that they would dock points. I figure it's either yes or no.

kjartan wrote:

Underoath wrote:

kjartan wrote:I'm sorry. That sucks. Did you forget to upload the whole exam or just day 3?

The last day. I just called and they said I have within two weeks to upload it but I am getting a 10 point reduction from the written portion. Therefore, I failed for sure now. I was already borderline pass/fail.

How can you be so sure?

Well...I felt terrible about essay #2 and #6 everything else I can say I passed at least but on top of this 10 point deduction in my score. I'm done.

This has got to be one of the biggest mistakes of my life. If I failed I hope I just failed and the 10 points has nothing to do with it.

Underoath wrote:

kjartan wrote:I'm sorry. That sucks. Did you forget to upload the whole exam or just day 3?

The last day. I just called and they said I have within two weeks to upload it but I am getting a 10 point reduction from the written portion. Therefore, I failed for sure now. I was already borderline pass/fail.

Wait....are you getting a 10-point reduction for the entire written portion on day 3? Or are you getting a 10-point reduction for each essay and PT on day 3 (for a total of 40 points)?

rpupkin wrote:

Underoath wrote:

kjartan wrote:I'm sorry. That sucks. Did you forget to upload the whole exam or just day 3?

The last day. I just called and they said I have within two weeks to upload it but I am getting a 10 point reduction from the written portion. Therefore, I failed for sure now. I was already borderline pass/fail.

Wait....are you getting a 10-point reduction for the entire written portion on day 3? Or are you getting a 10-point reduction for each essay and PT on day 3 (for a total of 40 points)?

Yeah, if it's 10 points total, I think you can still pass. I actually thought they'd give you zeros when I first read this.
Also, everyone I talked to (and I talked to a lot of smart people) struggled with essay 6, so I wouldn't sweat it.

kjartan wrote:

rpupkin wrote:

Underoath wrote:

kjartan wrote:I'm sorry. That sucks. Did you forget to upload the whole exam or just day 3?

The last day. I just called and they said I have within two weeks to upload it but I am getting a 10 point reduction from the written portion. Therefore, I failed for sure now. I was already borderline pass/fail.

Wait....are you getting a 10-point reduction for the entire written portion on day 3? Or are you getting a 10-point reduction for each essay and PT on day 3 (for a total of 40 points)?

Yeah, this seems important.

Just a minute, he's still making it up

Which state? California? I believe the California bar is worth 2000 points. Ten points seems pretty miniscule. Even forty doesn't sound too disastrous.

LAW813FL wrote:

kjartan wrote:

rpupkin wrote:

Underoath wrote:

kjartan wrote:I'm sorry. That sucks. Did you forget to upload the whole exam or just day 3?

The last day. I just called and they said I have within two weeks to upload it but I am getting a 10 point reduction from the written portion. Therefore, I failed for sure now. I was already borderline pass/fail.

Wait....are you getting a 10-point reduction for the entire written portion on day 3? Or are you getting a 10-point reduction for each essay and PT on day 3 (for a total of 40 points)?

Yeah, this seems important.

Just a minute, he's still making it up

ROFL.

cram1 wrote:Which state? California? I believe the California bar is worth 2000 points. Ten points seems pretty miniscule. Even forty doesn't sound too disastrous.

It's 10 points before the exam gets scaled.

I wouldn't worry. This happened to a friend of mine. He went to the swearing in ceremony and didn't see his name on the program. He asked somebody from the bar, they looked him up on their phone, and realized the mistake. There were graders at the ceremony, so they just told him to go to his car and upload it, printed off his exam, graded it, and determined he passed. They swore him in an hour after he realized he didn't upload it.

Tom Joad wrote:I wouldn't worry. This happened to a friend of mine. He went to the swearing in ceremony and didn't see his name on the program. He asked somebody from the bar, they looked him up on their phone, and realized the mistake. There were graders at the ceremony, so they just told him to go to his car and upload it, printed off his exam, graded it, and determined he passed. They swore him in an hour after he realized he didn't upload it.

I call shenanigans.

Tom Joad wrote:I wouldn't worry. This happened to a friend of mine. He went to the swearing in ceremony and didn't see his name on the program. He asked somebody from the bar, they looked him up on their phone, and realized the mistake. There were graders at the ceremony, so they just told him to go to his car and upload it, printed off his exam, graded it, and determined he passed. They swore him in an hour after he realized he didn't upload it.

He just happened to have his laptop in the car, and instant access to wifi? skepticalhippo.jpg

rinkrat19 wrote:

Tom Joad wrote:I wouldn't worry. This happened to a friend of mine. He went to the swearing in ceremony and didn't see his name on the program. He asked somebody from the bar, they looked him up on their phone, and realized the mistake. There were graders at the ceremony, so they just told him to go to his car and upload it, printed off his exam, graded it, and determined he passed. They swore him in an hour after he realized he didn't upload it.

He just happened to have his laptop in the car, and instant access to wifi? skepticalhippo.jpg

I don't understand the skepticism here. Although the above scenario couldn't happen in California or New York, it's actually fairly common in some of the rural states in the south and midwest.

Mactx wrote:

Tom Joad wrote:I wouldn't worry. This happened to a friend of mine. He went to the swearing in ceremony and didn't see his name on the program. He asked somebody from the bar, they looked him up on their phone, and realized the mistake. There were graders at the ceremony, so they just told him to go to his car and upload it, printed off his exam, graded it, and determined he passed. They swore him in an hour after he realized he didn't upload it.

I call shenanigans.

I believe it. similar thing happened to me. I was had already been sworn in and then they realized that I hadn't actually bubbled anything in on the mbe, so they asked me a couple questions on legal stuff and then I was readmitted

I'm sorry, but anyone who "forgets" to upload should NOT be an attorney. Will you "forget" to file your client's paperwork? Forget deadlines? Forget a SOL?

I don't even LEAVE the room until I upload it. Even if you had no wifi in your testing center, and you had to wait until you got home, how can you forget? Did you not even open your laptop at the airport?

Calicakes wrote:I'm sorry, but anyone who "forgets" to upload should NOT be an attorney. Will you "forget" to file your client's paperwork? Forget deadlines? Forget a SOL?

I don't even LEAVE the room until I upload it. Even if you had no wifi in your testing center, and you had to wait until you got home, how can you forget? Did you not even open your laptop at the airport?

Helpful comment douche.

At first I thought this was a flame. And it may very well be. But I realize that OP's conduct is consistent with someone who would actually do this. Maybe that's the joke.

Calicakes wrote:I'm sorry, but anyone who "forgets" to upload should NOT be an attorney. Will you "forget" to file your client's paperwork? Forget deadlines? Forget a SOL?

I don't even LEAVE the room until I upload it. Even if you had no wifi in your testing center, and you had to wait until you got home, how can you forget? Did you not even open your laptop at the airport?

For the record, you also should NOT be an attorney because you're an insufferable douche who will be miserable to work with. Good use of caps lock, though.

Calicakes wrote:I'm sorry, but anyone who "forgets" to upload should NOT be an attorney. Will you "forget" to file your client's paperwork? Forget deadlines? Forget a SOL?

I don't even LEAVE the room until I upload it. Even if you had no wifi in your testing center, and you had to wait until you got home, how can you forget? Did you not even open your laptop at the airport?

hmmmm...He did not do anything unethical or immoral to warrant not being fit to be an attorney. Our moral character application did not have a "have you forgotten anything important" question to determine our fitness to practice. People forget, it's human nature. The stress of the exam and flying out of state may play into it. Even attorneys forget and when they do, they get sanctioned or are given a penalty but not disbarred due to forgetting.

Let's try to be respectful, the OP is already hard on himself & realizes his mistakes. He just may pass even with the 10 point reduction and you, who didn't forget to upload may fail. So let's get off our high horse. And even if you think it's stupid or something you won't do, your statement adds nothing. And remember the saying: if you have nothing nice to say...

When you start a statement with "sorry" you should just stop. Anything after that is never good.

rpupkin wrote:

Calicakes wrote:I'm sorry, but anyone who "forgets" to upload should NOT be an attorney. Will you "forget" to file your client's paperwork? Forget deadlines? Forget a SOL?

I don't even LEAVE the room until I upload it. Even if you had no wifi in your testing center, and you had to wait until you got home, how can you forget? Did you not even open your laptop at the airport?

For the record, you also should NOT be an attorney because you're an insufferable douche who will be miserable to work with. Good use of caps lock, though.

What the actual eff? Plenty of really good to great attorneys forget a date once in a while and have to ask a judge for an extension.