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Originally posted by Solomwi
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Enjoy your next couple of months. Sounds like you've already figured out the most important thing to know at this point: the bar exam tests for minimum competence. You'll look around on the first day and more or less be able to pick out those who won't pass by lunchtime. Your friends and classmates will still be way too anxious and cramming way too hard during the whole exam. Do the month of BarBri mad-libs, the practice multistate questions, and a quick review of any problem spots the night before the first session and you should be fine. At that point, worrying and cramming become counterproductive.
I recommend having a beer or three each night, just not so much that getting to the test in the morning is a problem. Worked for me.
I recommend having a beer or three each night, just not so much that getting to the test in the morning is a problem. Worked for me.
I just wanted to drop in and say holy crap was I right to take your advice to heart, and to spread the good word to my strung-out colleagues. While everyone around me plugged away at two months of 12-hour days of cram-reading, lectures, videos at home, audio in the car (and shower, and gym, and while sleeping), practice multiple choice, practice essays, mock exam conditions (from the gymnasium to the white noise to the timers - you name it), flashcards, those "study group" thingies I kept hearing about in law school, and - FFS - even cramming like chickens with their heads cut off through lunchbreaks at the exam, I swear to the sweet chocolate christ alls I did was sit in a recliner, watch each video lecture once at 1.0x speed while skimming handouts, absorb each a second time at 1.5x-2.0x speed, skim the conviser mini-review once, and half-ass maybe 5% of the practice questions we got, all over the course of maybe the last 2-3 weeks of the full 2 months we had to get ready. Oh, and just for good measure, I neglected a SofTest deadline and banged out the whole damned thing in pen while hundreds around me clacked away 80WPM on their laptops, resulting in me running out of time for 1/3 of the MPT and the entirety of the last of 6 essays, and at least half of the answers in the multiple choice day were wild guesses.
Yet somehow, I find out this week that my ID# was apparently transposed with some poor sap's and I got his passing score by accident, because there's no way in hell that travesty I turned in even approximated a passing effort, unless blatant malpractice is par for the course in Minnesota, but if it is, I'm not about to complain!
Edit: ok, granted, I did lay off the beer idea.
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