10.1.1.4) Taking the Bar Exam (California Bar Exam)
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This article is from the King Hall Law School FAQ, by David F. Prenatt, Jr. NetEsq@dcn.davis.ca.us with numerous contributions by others.
10.1.1.4) Taking the Bar Exam (California Bar Exam)
Taking the Bar Exam is nowhere near as bad as most people expect it to
be. As one of my colleagues put it, "the Bar Exam tests for minimal
competency." Even so, some of the brightest people whom I know have
had to take the Bar Exam more than once because of overconfidence and
a lack of proper motivation.
Contrary to popular belief, your chances of passing the Bar Exam
actually go up on your second attempt. If you fail the Bar Exam
twice, however, you are quite likely to keep failing it over and over
again (hence, the abysmal passage rate for repeat takers). Many
people do not know what to expect from the Bar Exam until they
actually take it, so they don't know how to prepare for it, mentally
or emotionally. The Bar Exam is very passable, however, and there are
a lot of things that people know to do differently when preparing to
take it a second time.
Many capable people do everything that they should do to pass the
Bar Exam and still fail. As hard as they may study, some unforeseen
circumstance occurs. For example, for those who type or word process
the Bar Exam, mechanical failure is a very real possibility (one
person was gone by lunch the first day), and the Committee of Bar
Examiners does not take responsibility for power outages. So if you
type the Bar Exam, bring a second typewriter--a manual typewriter.
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