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CAN WE PLEASE GET BACK TO TALKING ABOUT MEN LOOKING AT OTHER MEN'S JOHNSON'S IN THE BATHROOM?

Couldn't they just scale your score from the New York essay portion of the bar exam - say, map it by percentile? I mean, if it's their fault, that's really kind of dick.

First, you weren't first.

The answer sheets never recovered from the Hudson River or local garbage dump, wherever it is they went.

Either he's missing a verb (e.g., "were") or these inanimate objects must have gone out drinking hard with their fellow test-takers and took a wrong turn going home that evening.

NYU5L: I see your point, but the multistate is, well, multistate, and you need the score if you are thinking about practicing anywhere else and getting your info transferred (DC, CA, etc.). Also, the NY essay portion is too easy to actually serve as a true indicator. I mean, it's not the CA bar, after all.

Let the CA vs. NY bar battle begin...

That story doesn't make a lick of sense. You took the bar in 1985 and didn't pass until 2006? If you took the bar in July 2005, then what's all this stuff about 1985 and 22 years ago?

Also, even the missing "were" doesn't cure the atrocity of a mixed passive voice / active voice sentence with the same "subject" (i.e., the answer sheets).

i knows it only middle morning, but can i has an ass-crush now?

Yeah i don't understand the timing of this. he took it in '85, was told to take the exam 22 yrs later? What the hell was he doing in the meantime?

Some of the readers are not smart.

I still don't understand what "ass-crushing" is

Tough crowd. The exam was 1985. The 2006 was an error that I just fixed. The verb has been put in. I'll take a look at the passive/active voice thingy, but hey, it's a blog, not the NYT.

--ET

Pretty sure that 1985 was 22 years ago. And pretty sure he just wrote this, and meant to say that he was given the option of retaking the exam in February 1986.

Just a hunch.

As Eric Turkewitz's experience shows, John Pieper is the man!! Barbri is a mind numbing experience. Go Pieper.

Why are you trying to freak us out more than we already are?

So is the moral of the story:

Record your multiple-choice answers not just on the official answer sheet, but in your booklet too?

@ 11:49

Chillax, dude. At least yesterday's steam explosion didn't happen while you were taking the bar exam.

11:21: You can waive into DC without showing them your MBE score if you're a member of the NY Bar, and CA doesn't accept MBE scores taken in other jurisdictions (and is not unique in this respect).

Obviously, the guy is writing about is bar exam horror story in 1985.

And this comment:

"Also, even the missing "were" doesn't cure the atrocity of a mixed passive voice / active voice sentence with the same "subject" (i.e., the answer sheets)." Good lord!

Its that nit-picking lost in the minutiae mind set that makes (some of you) excellent proofreaders but, as a practical matter, worthless as tits on a boar hog when it comes down to practicing law, i.e. actually accomplishing anything.

Good proofreaders are a dime a dozen. To succeed in law—not to mention pass the bar exam--you need to separate the wheat from the chaff.

@11:49

It's an amusing "things could be worse" anecdote, not a "this could be you."

Of course, you might not be freaked out if you were studying your materials instead of reading blogs less than a week before the bar exam.

I think I read a story somewhere online (maybe here?) about a problem with the 1985 multistate. The story I read said that one of the test-takers freaked out, grabbed all the answer sheets and took off. He was eventually caught, but because he left the building and the answer sheets were out of the bar examiners' hands for a sizable amount of time, they refused to grade any of them. Anyone whose multistate was in that pile had to retake. Either this is the reason the test was "lost" or this is another story. Or just an internet hoax to flip out those of us studying right now...

Relax. Little weird things happen all the time in the bar exam. Short of a terrorist attack or hostage situation, or the unexplained loss of answer sheets, everything will be fine.

Why not sue em for losing exam!

I'm not coming to this site a month before I take the bar. I'm old already, I don't need a heart attack!

California takes MBE scores from other states if the scores meet California's minimum to pass that section. If your MBE score is lower than what California requires, you have to take the MBE again.

yeah, 11:21, they DO accept MBEs from other states. They only have to show up for TWO of the THREE day saga that is the CA bar. I had one next to me at the bar, so during the MBEs, I was all sprawled out and up in his area and what not. It was the best thing ever.

Couldn't he have reported the examiners to the State Bar. Doesn't losing hundreds of bar exam answer sheets constitute a character and fitness issue?

I read this site more than I study. I've even got friends who never read it before on it.

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