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Redditors MAF over difficult bar exam, pledge to destroy NCBE

https://www.reddit.com/r/barexam/comments/w9s6ml/i_should_fe...
provocative cobalt dopamine useless brakes
  07/28/22
holy shit they put an essay question on rap? lmaooooooo
Irradiated Gay Space
  07/28/22
they're strictly enforcing the "no talking about conten...
provocative cobalt dopamine useless brakes
  07/28/22
Lmfao good. Should make it harder imo
Comical Lay Idea He Suggested
  07/28/22
180. If I was in charge I’d make the bad exam 2-3X ...
Orchid big range sex offender
  07/28/22
tbf, nearly everyone would fail like a drowning swimmer at a...
Irradiated Gay Space
  07/28/22
Wrong
Glittery giraffe
  07/28/22
you just said the opposite below.
Irradiated Gay Space
  07/28/22
i'd support making the bar 3x harder as there are a ton of d...
provocative cobalt dopamine useless brakes
  07/28/22
The more ancient, arcane and pointless the material tested t...
Orchid big range sex offender
  07/28/22
practicalcels be seething over scholarmos
provocative cobalt dopamine useless brakes
  07/28/22
i went to check and according to ncbe, the lowest pass rate ...
Irradiated Gay Space
  07/28/22
yeah can't be making niggas pay $250k for law school only to...
shaky coiffed stage stock car
  07/28/22
yeah perhaps if they just decertified like 1/2 the law schoo...
provocative cobalt dopamine useless brakes
  07/28/22
Fuck dumbs and proles. Check the Japanese numbers, hoss. ...
white arousing theater stage
  07/29/22
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Comical Lay Idea He Suggested
  07/28/22
1800000000
jade godawful university love of her life
  07/29/22
for lurkers, i used barmax and supplemented with criticalpas...
Irradiated Gay Space
  07/28/22
the essays are curved so an extraordinarily difficult essay ...
provocative cobalt dopamine useless brakes
  07/28/22
I torrented some bar prep stuff and also got a Google Drive ...
Pale filthpig
  07/28/22
i bought used barbri off ebay and leansheets. passed easily ...
provocative cobalt dopamine useless brakes
  07/28/22
Yeah true, those test prep companies do their best to instil...
Pale filthpig
  07/28/22
lmfao bold move to upload your leansheets to piratebay and n...
provocative cobalt dopamine useless brakes
  07/28/22
When did you take the bar exam? The MBE was noticeably more ...
Buff piazza lettuce
  07/28/22
2018. i sat super late post LS because i was doing other ...
Irradiated Gay Space
  07/28/22
ime the people that feel very confident about passing are mo...
provocative cobalt dopamine useless brakes
  07/28/22
overconfidence leads to utilizing lower success test taking ...
Irradiated Gay Space
  07/28/22
exactly. i remember how many questions were specifically des...
provocative cobalt dopamine useless brakes
  07/28/22
i remember reading/listening to a podcast about the science ...
Irradiated Gay Space
  07/28/22
fuck that really blows for that guy. I remember reading s...
provocative cobalt dopamine useless brakes
  07/28/22
"some people really suck at taking tests" they'...
white arousing theater stage
  07/29/22
I'm probably the only one who would be DELIGHTED by that que...
Glittery giraffe
  07/28/22
🤣😂
Navy embarrassed to the bone step-uncle's house
  07/28/22
@NCBE 4m While aware of the frustrations of this year's ...
insanely creepy place of business crackhouse
  07/28/22
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Comical Lay Idea He Suggested
  07/28/22
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Obsidian Wonderful Meetinghouse Dragon
  07/28/22
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Magenta native
  07/29/22
I bet the test prep companies said something like, "it'...
disgusting point son of senegal
  07/28/22
apparently they do now. they look at the past mee questions ...
provocative cobalt dopamine useless brakes
  07/28/22
I bet they don't do anything until after 21 years from some ...
fighting bearded depressive
  07/28/22
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provocative cobalt dopamine useless brakes
  07/28/22
i recently took a bar exam and adaptibar saved my ass, i pwn...
shaky coiffed stage stock car
  07/28/22
lmao 180 took the bar in a non-UBE state and essays were ...
mahogany greedy weed whacker center
  07/28/22
lol
crusty pearly coffee pot
  07/28/22
3. “It’s curved so if everyone struggled most of...
snowy athletic conference
  07/28/22
grrrr it's irrelevant whether i pass or not! the ncbe testin...
provocative cobalt dopamine useless brakes
  07/28/22
I took a bar exam once where one of the essays was a worker ...
Smoky cuckoldry
  07/28/22
all i remember was the new, ube was easy af; i forget what i...
Jet-lagged swashbuckling tanning salon
  07/28/22
i’m beginning to think one reason redditors are so POO...
Obsidian Wonderful Meetinghouse Dragon
  07/28/22
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provocative cobalt dopamine useless brakes
  07/29/22
i got a 177.8 on the mbe. it's my highest and most useless ...
electric ticket booth goyim
  07/29/22


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Date: July 28th, 2022 12:42 PM
Author: provocative cobalt dopamine useless brakes

https://www.reddit.com/r/barexam/comments/w9s6ml/i_should_feel_relieved_but_i_just_feel_betrayed/

apparently the MEE had a couple rule against perpetuities questions, and all the test prep companies said don't bother learning it because it's never tested. they're all absolutely fuming and pledging to take down the NCBE once *they're* in charge.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5162798&forum_id=2#44928758)



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Date: July 28th, 2022 12:43 PM
Author: Irradiated Gay Space

holy shit they put an essay question on rap? lmaooooooo

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5162798&forum_id=2#44928765)



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Date: July 28th, 2022 12:45 PM
Author: provocative cobalt dopamine useless brakes

they're strictly enforcing the "no talking about content" shit, but according to some posts that have been modded there were TWO INDEPENDENT RAP questions, i.e. not just 2 questions in 1 mee section, but 2 property mees involving rap.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5162798&forum_id=2#44928787)



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Date: July 28th, 2022 12:51 PM
Author: Comical Lay Idea He Suggested

Lmfao good. Should make it harder imo

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5162798&forum_id=2#44928815)



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Date: July 28th, 2022 12:44 PM
Author: Orchid big range sex offender

180.

If I was in charge I’d make the bad exam 2-3X harder such that only 20-25% of people passed it. Would make this profession much more prestigious.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5162798&forum_id=2#44928776)



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Date: July 28th, 2022 12:46 PM
Author: Irradiated Gay Space

tbf, nearly everyone would fail like a drowning swimmer at a rap question.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5162798&forum_id=2#44928790)



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Date: July 28th, 2022 12:47 PM
Author: Glittery giraffe

Wrong

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5162798&forum_id=2#44928799)



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Date: July 28th, 2022 12:49 PM
Author: Irradiated Gay Space

you just said the opposite below.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5162798&forum_id=2#44928809)



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Date: July 28th, 2022 12:49 PM
Author: provocative cobalt dopamine useless brakes

i'd support making the bar 3x harder as there are a ton of dumb ass lawyers out there are there are too many lawyers already.

however, i wish they'd stop testing arcane common law that doesn't even exist in many states and is rarely an issue even where it exists. instead of the flame ube each state should just go back to testing *it's* law.

law school and the bar is 90% memorizing ancient laws that don't exist anymore and applying them.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5162798&forum_id=2#44928812)



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Date: July 28th, 2022 12:51 PM
Author: Orchid big range sex offender

The more ancient, arcane and pointless the material tested the better. Humiliation is part of my goal. Only the most committed to true genuine scholarship get the privilege of a law license.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5162798&forum_id=2#44928818)



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Date: July 28th, 2022 12:54 PM
Author: provocative cobalt dopamine useless brakes

practicalcels be seething over scholarmos

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5162798&forum_id=2#44928829)



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Date: July 28th, 2022 12:56 PM
Author: Irradiated Gay Space

i went to check and according to ncbe, the lowest pass rate for 2/22 was 35% and highest was 72% and most of what i saw were in the 50s.

i don't know that you can make it much harder without making it unfair.

the shitty lawyer problem is really about apprenticeship, mentoring and the deluge of shit law schools. i don't think the bar fixes that.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5162798&forum_id=2#44928843)



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Date: July 28th, 2022 1:03 PM
Author: shaky coiffed stage stock car

yeah can't be making niggas pay $250k for law school only to fail 3 out of 4

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5162798&forum_id=2#44928869)



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Date: July 28th, 2022 1:11 PM
Author: provocative cobalt dopamine useless brakes

yeah perhaps if they just decertified like 1/2 the law schools.

many TTTTs are a complete scam with less than 50% of their students never practicing law. it's unconscionable that they are allowed to saddle retarded poli-sci grads with 200k in debt for a coinflip on whether they'll ever land an insurance defense gig starting at 55k.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5162798&forum_id=2#44928899)



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Date: July 29th, 2022 7:39 AM
Author: white arousing theater stage

Fuck dumbs and proles.

Check the Japanese numbers, hoss. That's what a first world legal guild looks like

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5162798&forum_id=2#44932780)



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Date: July 28th, 2022 12:51 PM
Author: Comical Lay Idea He Suggested



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5162798&forum_id=2#44928817)



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Date: July 29th, 2022 7:35 AM
Author: jade godawful university love of her life

1800000000

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5162798&forum_id=2#44932775)



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Date: July 28th, 2022 12:45 PM
Author: Irradiated Gay Space

for lurkers, i used barmax and supplemented with criticalpass cards. got a very high score while working full time at home with kids. you shouldnt fail this exam and im sure most of them didnt, but a rap essay is pretty bullshit.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5162798&forum_id=2#44928785)



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Date: July 28th, 2022 12:46 PM
Author: provocative cobalt dopamine useless brakes

the essays are curved so an extraordinarily difficult essay section is actually good if you can spew enough bullshit to score some points without even knowing the rule.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5162798&forum_id=2#44928795)



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Date: July 28th, 2022 12:48 PM
Author: Pale filthpig

I torrented some bar prep stuff and also got a Google Drive from some Chinese international students that had a shitton of pirated bar shit. Didn’t spend a dime on that scam

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5162798&forum_id=2#44928805)



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Date: July 28th, 2022 12:52 PM
Author: provocative cobalt dopamine useless brakes

i bought used barbri off ebay and leansheets. passed easily in a very difficult state. sold the books on ebay for roughly what i paid.

ljl at spending thousands on barbri or watching their flame lectures (i tried a couple times and wanted to kill myself). if you can't just read an outline of the shit that you already learned as a 1l and pass the bar idk what to tell ya. the most helpful thing is taking a bunch of practice questions so you know where you're weak or what you have a misunderstanding about.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5162798&forum_id=2#44928823)



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Date: July 28th, 2022 1:02 PM
Author: Pale filthpig

Yeah true, those test prep companies do their best to instill fear but it’s not that hard. That drive had lean sheets from someone who didn’t redact his name and I checked online and he passed so I figured it was legit lmao

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5162798&forum_id=2#44928865)



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Date: July 28th, 2022 1:08 PM
Author: provocative cobalt dopamine useless brakes

lmfao bold move to upload your leansheets to piratebay and not redact your name

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5162798&forum_id=2#44928889)



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Date: July 28th, 2022 12:51 PM
Author: Buff piazza lettuce

When did you take the bar exam? The MBE was noticeably more difficult when I took it (2014) than all the available practice questions I did. I do think they’ve been trying to make it harder over the years to “beat” the test prep companies.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5162798&forum_id=2#44928816)



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Date: July 28th, 2022 12:55 PM
Author: Irradiated Gay Space

2018.

i sat super late post LS because i was doing other shit.

i found the mbe hard af when i sat but when i got the results i had a high af score. so i feel like redditors may be molting their feathers about nothing.



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5162798&forum_id=2#44928832)



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Date: July 28th, 2022 1:18 PM
Author: provocative cobalt dopamine useless brakes

ime the people that feel very confident about passing are more likely to fail than the people who are certain they will fail. the pessimistic ones recognize all the questions they had to guess on whereas some of the confident people are confidently incorrect.

i've known a couple very intelligent lawyers who failed the first time because they didn't take prep seriously.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5162798&forum_id=2#44928929)



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Date: July 28th, 2022 1:25 PM
Author: Irradiated Gay Space

overconfidence leads to utilizing lower success test taking strategies. so one loses a lot of low hanging fruit which adds up. they think its a law test. the bar is a standardized test and yes you need content, but you really just need to know how to take the test itself. the bar exam, like most standardized exams, tests your abilty to take the bar exam and thats it. its not a law exam.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5162798&forum_id=2#44928966)



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Date: July 28th, 2022 1:39 PM
Author: provocative cobalt dopamine useless brakes

exactly. i remember how many questions were specifically designed to trick you. one i remember in particular was a question about anti-commandeering doctrine and one answer being "the 10th amendment" and another being "because of the anti-commandeering doctrine based on the 9th amendment". the doctrine is based on the 10th amendment, so that's the correct answer. but most people are going to get it wrong because they see "anti-commandeering" and select it.

it's complete bullshit. i hate that so many standardized tests are designed this way. you have to learn the test, not the content.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5162798&forum_id=2#44929036)



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Date: July 28th, 2022 4:31 PM
Author: Irradiated Gay Space

i remember reading/listening to a podcast about the science of creating standardized tests and how all the phds in the field were chinese dudes.

this was a long while back like over 10 years, but once you figure out they're all this way. you recognize that content, while important, is only some of the game. the real push is learning the techniques.

i know a guy who im sure has sat 3 times and has failed and currently ubers. i remember his posts were "but i know all the law, i don't understand how i keep failing." i reached out to explain this to him, but, i dunno man. some people really suck at taking tests.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5162798&forum_id=2#44929856)



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Date: July 28th, 2022 4:57 PM
Author: provocative cobalt dopamine useless brakes

fuck that really blows for that guy.

I remember reading something similar about standardized test design when I was studying for the LSAT. The way they make manageable and statistically predictable questions that will work regardless of the applicant pool (e.g Feb takers performing worse than July takers) is via the experimental questioning to figure out which questions will have a high failure rate among high scoring testers. And the way they often achieve this is via tricky bullshit that will trick someone that knows the content into selecting the wrong answer on some bullshit. So it's essential that you learn the test in addition to the content.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5162798&forum_id=2#44930059)



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Date: July 29th, 2022 7:42 AM
Author: white arousing theater stage

"some people really suck at taking tests"

they're called dumb people.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5162798&forum_id=2#44932784)



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Date: July 28th, 2022 12:46 PM
Author: Glittery giraffe

I'm probably the only one who would be DELIGHTED by that question.

Probably because I'm the only WASP left

Little known crim law or con law questions are bullshit tho

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5162798&forum_id=2#44928788)



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Date: July 28th, 2022 12:48 PM
Author: Navy embarrassed to the bone step-uncle's house

🤣😂

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5162798&forum_id=2#44928806)



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Date: July 28th, 2022 12:52 PM
Author: insanely creepy place of business crackhouse

@NCBE 4m

While aware of the frustrations of this year's test takers it has always been our goal to promote equity and diversity. Questions about RAP, and hip hop culture in general, help forward these goals.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5162798&forum_id=2#44928819)



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Date: July 28th, 2022 1:15 PM
Author: Comical Lay Idea He Suggested



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5162798&forum_id=2#44928919)



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Date: July 28th, 2022 4:24 PM
Author: Obsidian Wonderful Meetinghouse Dragon



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5162798&forum_id=2#44929813)



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Date: July 29th, 2022 12:35 PM
Author: Magenta native



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5162798&forum_id=2#44933845)



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Date: July 28th, 2022 12:57 PM
Author: disgusting point son of senegal

I bet the test prep companies said something like, "it's only been tested x amount of times since x date, so just know this:"

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5162798&forum_id=2#44928851)



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Date: July 28th, 2022 1:19 PM
Author: provocative cobalt dopamine useless brakes

apparently they do now. they look at the past mee questions and rate the odds it'll be tested this section, and apparently they all said rap was never ever tested.

apparently these places did not consider that a long period of time where a topic is not tested may make it MORE likely for it to appear.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5162798&forum_id=2#44928940)



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Date: July 28th, 2022 1:02 PM
Author: fighting bearded depressive

I bet they don't do anything until after 21 years from some life now existing.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5162798&forum_id=2#44928868)



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Date: July 28th, 2022 1:11 PM
Author: provocative cobalt dopamine useless brakes



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5162798&forum_id=2#44928901)



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Date: July 28th, 2022 1:05 PM
Author: shaky coiffed stage stock car

i recently took a bar exam and adaptibar saved my ass, i pwned that MBE, was breezing through it and finished both sections 30 minutes early. that, PR (which is guaranteed to be an essay) and MPT should be your focus and you can pass any bar exam. the rest of my essays were a joke.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5162798&forum_id=2#44928877)



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Date: July 28th, 2022 1:06 PM
Author: mahogany greedy weed whacker center

lmao 180

took the bar in a non-UBE state and essays were on contracts, con law and crim (with some minor state rules mixed in). sup

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5162798&forum_id=2#44928879)



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Date: July 28th, 2022 1:16 PM
Author: crusty pearly coffee pot

lol

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5162798&forum_id=2#44928922)



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Date: July 28th, 2022 1:48 PM
Author: snowy athletic conference

3. “It’s curved so if everyone struggled most of you will still pass” Whether I pass or not is irrelevant. We paid considerable money to help us prepare and they failed. We paid them to help prioritize our study. They failed. The NCBE intentionally made most of that preparation a waste. I honestly think o could have done just as well just not doing a prep company and watching a few videos on YouTube.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5162798&forum_id=2#44929056)



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Date: July 28th, 2022 1:55 PM
Author: provocative cobalt dopamine useless brakes

grrrr it's irrelevant whether i pass or not! the ncbe testing me on a subject that they explicitly include as a testable subject is bullshit because they knew that third party testing companies were telling us not to study this topic! the ncbe should conform to what third party prep companies tell us!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5162798&forum_id=2#44929095)



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Date: July 28th, 2022 2:00 PM
Author: Smoky cuckoldry

I took a bar exam once where one of the essays was a worker comp question. I wish I could reread my answer to that.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5162798&forum_id=2#44929119)



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Date: July 28th, 2022 2:40 PM
Author: Jet-lagged swashbuckling tanning salon

all i remember was the new, ube was easy af; i forget what i scored, but it was high enough that i could have used the score to qualify in any ube state. that said, i'm not sure if they should dial the exam up in difficulty; what they should do is limit the number of people who go to law school in the first place. it's a waste to take 3+ years of people's money and time just to weed them out at the exam.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5162798&forum_id=2#44929302)



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Date: July 28th, 2022 4:24 PM
Author: Obsidian Wonderful Meetinghouse Dragon

i’m beginning to think one reason redditors are so POOR is because they are very DUMB.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5162798&forum_id=2#44929819)



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Date: July 29th, 2022 7:07 AM
Author: provocative cobalt dopamine useless brakes



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5162798&forum_id=2#44932729)



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Date: July 29th, 2022 12:28 PM
Author: electric ticket booth goyim

i got a 177.8 on the mbe. it's my highest and most useless standardized test score ever. had like 1100 sat lol

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5162798&forum_id=2#44933804)