February Bar Exam results

Discussion in 'Quackenbush's' started by Dr Fear, May 1, 2008.

  1. Dr Fear

    Dr Fear 500+ Posts

    [​IMG] I have a friend who just passed on his 4th attempt. [​IMG]

    I can't imagine what a weight off his shoulders this is.
     
  2. Bevo04

    Bevo04 100+ Posts

    4th attempt?damn. Good for him for sticking with it. I was emotionally and physically drained for quite some time after I took it. I can't imagine taking it 4 times.
     
  3. UTViking

    UTViking 250+ Posts

    Ah come on, Adrian, it's true. I was nobody. But that don't matter either, you know? 'Cause I was thinkin', it really don't matter if I lose this fight. It really don't matter if this guy opens my head, either. 'Cause all I wanna do is go the distance. Nobody's ever gone the distance with Creed, and if I can go that distance, you see, and that bell rings and I'm still standin', I'm gonna know for the first time in my life, see, that I weren't just another bum from the neighborhood.
     
  4. Bookman

    Bookman 1,000+ Posts

    My ex girlfriend failed it for the second time today.
     
  5. CaboWabo

    CaboWabo 500+ Posts

    I'm gonna catch **** for saying this, but if takes you four times to pass the bar, then you're probably......ah hell, I'll just stop right there.
     
  6. BillyW

    BillyW 500+ Posts

    Didnt it take John Kennedy, Jr about 120 times to pass it?
     
  7. rickysrun

    rickysrun 2,500+ Posts


     
  8. 4realhorn

    4realhorn 500+ Posts

    ^
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    I laughed out loud after reading that.....sorry God.
     
  9. Bob in Houston

    Bob in Houston 2,500+ Posts

    People I was watching for, passed. Congratulations to them and everyone who passed.

    Hopefully, in six months, it'll be me...
     
  10. Wulaw Horn

    Wulaw Horn 1,000+ Posts

    Good luck Bob.

    Passage rate is usually around 75 or 80%

    If you went to TSU the passage rate is about 22%

    How they have an accredidation I have no idea.

    Oh and take Barbri or some other such class. It's $2,000.00 but it makes you put in the work and is worth it, imo.
     
  11. Perham1

    Perham1 2,500+ Posts


     
  12. DLev

    DLev 250+ Posts


     
  13. Bob in Houston

    Bob in Houston 2,500+ Posts

    Thanks, Wulaw. All good wishes and prayers gratefully accepted.

    I've been paranoid about the bar exam. I've not taken every single bar-related course, but enough that I won't be trying to learn three or four subjects in Barbri. I basically put Barbri and PMBR on my financial aid (took enough money to cover it).

    I expect to pass, but I have a healthy respect for the BLE defense...

    As to TSU, I read that the ABA wants to decertify schools that don't have a 75 percent pass rate, something like that. Not knowing anything about what goes on there, I'm torn between giving people a shot at it if they can hack it, and wondering whether the entire setup is flawed.

    I am about to finish at South Texas, and we have a non-credit course in the last semester designed to kick-start MBE prep. I am convinced it has helped raise the pass rate. Anyway, the guy who teaches it has started doing the same thing at TSU. Early this semester, he mentioned this, saying, with a shake of the head, "They need help over there."
     
  14. Wulaw Horn

    Wulaw Horn 1,000+ Posts

    If you can only get 1 out of 5 of your people to pass the professional licensing exam you shouldn't have a school.

    Screw giving people a shot (in that context) what you are really doing is fleecing them out of their money with no payoff down the road.

    That being said- I'm more or less a free market guy so I'm not campaigning that they be shut down, but that's seriously bad.

    Fear the bar exam b/c failing it is a really bad way to go, but that attitude will probably lead for you to pass it with like a 150 point cushion and you'll laugh and say, I could have slacked off more.
     
  15. DLev

    DLev 250+ Posts

    22% is an exaggeration. TSU's pass rates for first time test takers have been from 50-70% lately:
    The Link
     
  16. Bob in Houston

    Bob in Houston 2,500+ Posts


     
  17. Horns_House

    Horns_House 100+ Posts


     
  18. Wulaw Horn

    Wulaw Horn 1,000+ Posts

    I'm sorry- I ddin't know they had improved their scores that much since I took the bar 5 or 6 years ago.

    If so props to them- that's a good turnaround to get to 50% It still isn't good, but it's not the flaming embarassment it was in the past.

    90% passage rate for first time takers seems a bit high to me- it was like 78% I want to say when I was looking at it while I was taking it. Are they grading easier or are students performing better?

    As to looking at scores/gpa and saying it's unlikely to happen that someone will pass- I agree wtih that to a point. there was a saying when I was looking that there is a law school for everyone. Maybe there shouldn't be. I don't think I'm an elitist, but cmon, it's a profession where you could be handling somebody's life, liberty, property and death- it doesn't seem like we should allow everyone that shows up to be able to handle that kind of responsibility. I know I don't want an incompetant doctor or dentist or accountant b/c those things are all really important.
     
  19. Bob in Houston

    Bob in Houston 2,500+ Posts


     
  20. blueglasshorse

    blueglasshorse 1,000+ Posts


     
  21. Dr Fear

    Dr Fear 500+ Posts


     
  22. Bob in Houston

    Bob in Houston 2,500+ Posts


     
  23. hornFANtastic

    hornFANtastic 100+ Posts

    was his name Vinny Gambino [​IMG]
     

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