Bar Exams

Want To Use Your New Computer To Take The Bar Exam? Too Bad!

Hopefully not too many students are left scrambling.

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Around the country, thousands of law school graduates are preparing to take the final rite of passage to the promised land of esquirehood because the bar exam is this week. It’s a trying time in any hopeful lawyer’s life — there’s a lot of memorization, mnemonic devices, and panic in their lives. So they really don’t need any more stress in their lives. Too bad ExamSoft had other ideas.

ExamSoft is company that creates the secure software for the bar exam… and they have a spotty record at best when it comes to tech issues on bar exam day. The good(ish) news is that the latest snafu happened four whole days before the exam started.

On Friday — remember the exam starts this Tuesday — prospective who lawyers signed up to take the California bar exam got an email letting them know their computer might not be compatible with ExamSoft’s Examplify software. Yikes! At least they had the weekend to search for a replacement.

ExamSoft determined the new MacBook Pro will not work for the bar exam, so recent law school graduates that may have used their commencement largess to get the latest Apple product are sh*t outta luck. At least the affected models have only been on the market for a few weeks — hopefully not too many test takers found themselves scrambling for an alternative.

Do you have a bar exam horror story? If so let us know! You can email (subject line: “Bar Exam Horror Stories”) or text us (646-820-8477).

Read the full email from ExamSoft on the next page.

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