Bar Exams

Things Aren't Going Well For These Poor Souls Taking The Bar Exam

I'm so glad I never have to take the bar exam again.

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test-anxietyI am so glad I’m done taking the bar exam. Nothing about those two days is anything I need to relive (though I will note immediately after the exam I got wicked drunk after taking about two sips of bourbon, making it the fastest I’ve ever gotten drunk in my life). And my exam experience went off without any external problems.

Yesterday we told you how Day 1 of the D.C. bar exam started a whoppingly incompetent three hours late, and it seems bar takers had problems around the country.

But first, let’s see how Day 2 of the D.C. bar fared:

Day Two of the D.C. Bar-

You’d imagine that distributing one test booklet per examinee would have been a more manageable task than yesterday’s disaster, but D.C. never ceases to amaze. An extra hour from the start time to hand out that one little book this morning and nearly another hour after lunch. At least everyone will be done before 7 PM today?

Oof. Not fun at all. But I suppose they get credit for being slightly less terrible at their jobs than they were the day before.

In Massachusetts, earplugs were necessary, and there were some critters visiting:

MA bar exam is at the convention center, which is right on the water next the airport. Even with earplugs in, you can hear all the planes taking off from Logan, and the seagull fights taking place outside. We had a couple bird visitors in the exam hall on Day 1 too!

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And they weren’t the only ones dealing with the scourge of loud noises:

Just got back from day two of the New York bar in the Javits Center. Apparently they were doing heavy construction in the building during the exam and the entire time all you could hear was massive clanging and banging. Not sure if it’s a horror story, but it’s hard to remember evidence exceptions when it sounds like a circus elephant is crashing through the walls.

Test takers in Kentucky had a tough time dealing with the heat, without the modern convenience of air conditioning:

[T]he air conditioning went out yesterday during the Kentucky bar exam. It was hot as hell yesterday too.

And this is my personal favorite story from this year’s bar exam, because it involves some good old-fashioned ingenuity on the part of the proctors, destruction of personal property, and the threat of partial nudity:

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Yesterday during day 2 of the Delaware bar exam, one test taker arrived wearing a hooded t-shirt (hoods are not allowed during the Delaware bar). The hood wearer was denied the option of tucking the hood into the shirt and rather than have him take the test shirtless, the bar examiners just cut the hood right off of the shirt.

Welp, assuming that test taker passes, he’ll have an excellent story behind his new lucky sweatshirt.

At least it is all over now.

Earlier: Reports Of Chaos At Day 1 Of The D.C. Bar Exam

Kathryn Rubino is an editor at Above the Law. Feel free to email her with any tips, questions, or comments and follow her on Twitter (@Kathryn1).

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