The lobby of the River Center in St. Paul was packed 50 minutes before the tests were distributed. Some of the students set to take the bar exam this morning nervously scanned a few note cards trying to commit that last bit of knowledge to memory, others chatted with friends and a few stood silently in the corners staring off into the middle distance clutching a lap top.
A photographer and I interviewed a few of the nervous test takers for a video we are putting together that should be on the site soon. I asked them how they prepared and if any of the sections had them more worried than others. One man said he went and saw “Inception” last night and was in bed by 9. For those of you who have seen the movie, I wonder if he dreamed more about a shoot out at snow fortress than wills and contracts.
Some of the test takers have jobs lined up, but just as many, if not more, didn’t. But that didn’t seem to matter. They had come to the point when you just can’t study anymore, either you know the information or you don’t. And for that, they had a reason to be relieved.
The test takers have another reason to be positive, if the recent trend holds true, about nine out of 10 will pass the bar. If it were me, I’d like those odds
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Nine of out ten will pass the bar, but how many will actually get attorney jobs?
Makes me wonder if the bar just needs to be a little more difficult, or if we have students that grew up in a very competitive world and are ready for any challenge. The latter would be much more impressive.
-Micah