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Well folks, it’s that time of year again. Starting next Tuesday, hundreds of law grads will endure three grueling days of examination. Since we know that more than a few of those taking the exam are looking for last minute tips or advice, here’s your chance. If you need advice ask, if you have some give it. Also, if you have a great bar horror story, please feel free to share.
To start us off, we recently received an inquiry from someone asking if the February bar in Nevada is less competitive than the July bar? What do you think?
The February bar isn't more competitive than the July bar. The pass rate is lower because a large portion of the people taking it didn't pass the previous July. This is somewhat offset by people taking the Nevada bar after being admitted in another state, but not enough to raise the pass rate to be comparable with July.
Why do they announce results on a Thursday? Either you'll be ashamed the next day or drunk from celebrating passing (or ashamed AND drunk) Announce on FRIDAY. My 2 cents.
Good luck. Remember you want this. Don't be another one of the people who become attorneys and cry about it on this blog every day.
Good luck, just remember what Bar/Bri taught you and foget about the $3,000 they drained from you.
If you answer 155 questions correctly on the MBE, you will not fail the bar exam. Know your multistate subjects cold. Focus less on the other crap.
100% of the multistate exam will involve multistate subjects. At the very least, 60% of the essays will involve multistate subjects. There have been bar exams where the only non-multistate subject tested on the essays was ethics. There is very little reason to do anything beyond a very cursory review of non-multistate subjecs. And so, if you're very well-prepared in the multistate subjects, you can pass the bar without having to know much else.
This is hopefully a once in a lifetime thing. I don't see any reason not to give 100% effort to avoid the chance that something obscure comes up and sinks you. I get the "I'm fucking cool, I don't even have to try and I can pass" shtick, but I'd still rather be the guy that knew 100% he was going to pass, even if I need to forego some fun in the process.
Surprised no one mentioned the best piece of advice–Immodium AD.
Don't just do a cursory review of the non-multistate subjects. Know them. Memorize the paragraph you have to vomit out at the start of each essay for each subject. Now is not the time for you to cut corners.
be careful what you eat tonight, for tomorrow it may haunt you.
At a minimum, make sure you give a "once over" to the non-MBE subjects. When I took Bar/Bri, the property lecturer said that easements had never been covered on the NV exam. Low and behold, in 2001 (my year), easements were involved in an essay. I'm glad I covered it a couple times.
The best piece of advice is to list every issue you come across. Even if your IRAC is only 4 sentences for that particular issue, cover it. Just suck every issue you can out of the fat pattern. Also, as for the Prof. Resp. exam, know each duty an attorney owes (to clients, tribunal, opp counsel, and even public at large), and find a fact pattern to IRAC each and every one. Trust me, they'll all be in there. Good luck!
Day one of the Bar Exam included 4 essay questions and the MPT portion.
The 4 essay questions were in the following subjects: Torts, Criminal Law/Procedure, Ethics, and Real Property.
Considering that all of these are in the "much more tested" areas, all of us are wondering what "alternative" or "not tested that much" area will pop up on Thursday, the last day of the bar exam and where there are 4 straight essays, back to back, in a row.
Yay, only 2 more days.