Phew! It's over, finally over! Well, kind of ... you have to wait until October to find out if it is really over. Congratulations to those of you who made it through the exam, best of luck to all of you!
So, how did it go? Did anything interesting happen during the exam? What subjects were tested? If you took the exam this week, please leave us a comment. We want to hear all about it!
Try to restrain yourselves from just typing a string of expletives, we know it sucked.
I just got home from taking the beast. I suppose the most ridiculous thing we put up with (besides the questions) was the lack of internet and useful tech support. You need internet to upload the exams, and they only had a license for 50 at time. With 250+ there, it took awhile. I got finally got up and left after I had waited an hour not being able to load the exam. Luckily, I had no problems at home. Good luck to all...it's out of our hands now
ReplyDeleteCan I just say that the Texas Station is a total SHIT HOLE and I have no idea why the bar continues to be held there.
ReplyDeleteThey screwed us on our room rates (tripling them vs. their normal rate) and they wouldn't even offer decent internet so that the exams could be uploaded.
Oh, and that $14.55 per day "Amenities" charge on my bill was a nice touch as well. WHen asked, the guy at the front desk said is was so that I could make use of the pool and exercise facilities. Thanks!
Oh, and the entire place smells like Denis Leary's index finger. Even in my "non-smoking" room. Excuse me, I need to shower.
Having taken various different states' bar exams, I can say that Texas Station is one of the better places I sat for an exam. Given the number of hotels in the Vegas area, the bar certainly could be in someplace much nicer. I was so worried about getting a room when I took the exam, I booked it pretty far out, but by the time I was there, the hotel was full. They have probably learned they can jack up the rates because of bar examinees. The hotel part of the operation isn't so great. I think the hotel mainly caters to people who can't afford something decent or are having affairs and too cheap/poor to spend a bit more when cheating on their spouses.
ReplyDeleteYes, Texas Station was quite the shit hole. But I expected nothing less (or shall we say more) from this town.
ReplyDeleteCommercial paper
ReplyDeletePre-indictment delay
Fair housing act
OH, welcome back. It has been a slow 3 days without you.
ReplyDeleteFirst Day Essay
ReplyDeleteCommercial Paper Crossover UCC 2
Crimes Crossover with Evidence
PR
Corporations
Third Day
Con Law -
Torts Crossover with Conflicts of Law
Community Property with Some Property
Civil Procedure
First day Crim Law was crossed with Crim Pro, NOT Evidence.
ReplyDeleteAlso, day two Community Property was crossed with Domestic Relations, only mention of property was the JTWROS deed.
Or maybe I failed. Just as likely.
Shtdn't youu ajl be druunk by now/?1
ReplyDeleteShusss up about tessssssst
After I finished the bar, I could barely remember my own name let alone the exam subjects (and I passed!)
ReplyDeleteCon Law full essay was about the most obscure detail of procedural due process that WASN'T in the Barbri Mini-Review and wasn't mentioned by Chemerinski in the Con Law lecture. WTF?
ReplyDeleteCommercial Paper? Commercial Paper! Well, I took that one in the shorts. . .
ReplyDeleteFirst day:
ReplyDeletePR
Crossover: Crim Pro/Crim Law/Evidence
Crossover: UCC2/ Commercial Paper
Third Day:
Con Law (on involuntary inpatient treatment- due process, judicial review etc.)
Crossover: Torts/Choice of Law
Community Property
Civil Procedure
I took the bar at the Tuscany and it was not horrific. Except when the moderator tripped on my purse and the contents came pouring out. Contents that I didn't want the world to see. I don't think I was supposed to get up and talk to her and put my stuff back in the purse, but I was simply not having that sort of item sitting on the floor while I took the first half of the MBE.
ReplyDeleteCongrats to everyone. It's over.
Yeah, it must be embarrassing to have a bunch of future lawyers ogle at your slightly used douche bottle.
ReplyDeleteTexas Station is that bad as far as the conference areas for the test itself. I took another state's bar in the equivalent of a Holiday Inn, in a little meeting room at that, since the TYPEWRITER users were segregated from the hand writers.
ReplyDelete^^ "isn't that bad"
ReplyDelete***wasn't that bad***
ReplyDeleteThis was the fourth time I have taken the test, and it was definitely the easiest one I have taken. If my MBE score is above 135, I have got this one in the bag.
ReplyDeleteI can't wait until I am not a law clerk anymore and am bringing in attorney money
Wow, commercial paper and choice of law in one exam. That has got to be one of the rarer combinations on BarBri's chart of least-tested topics. God help you if you relied on Conviser's one-day explanation for choice of law.
ReplyDeleteWow, commercial paper and choice of law in one exam. That has got to be one of the rarer combinations on BarBri's chart of least-tested topics. God help you if you relied on Conviser's one-day explanation for choice of law.
ReplyDelete@4:03 pm
ReplyDeleteIf you despise Vegas so much, why are you here?
am I the only one who thought the MBE was extremely difficult??
ReplyDelete@8:58
ReplyDeleteAre you retarded?
This was the 4th time you have taken the test??
I hope you don't pass for the sake of your clients.
Sorry all, but the bar was pretty damn easy. If you can't pass after 2 or 3 tries (sure everyone gets one screw up) then you should find something else to do with your life, as you just don't have the smarts to be an attorney. Just asked that "Legally Unbound" clown--I'm sure he's throwing another batch of fries into the fryer as we speak...
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ReplyDeleteStrangely, the fact that you have taken the bar 4 times does not lend credibility to your statement that it was "definitely the easiest one I have taken."
Everyone who bit at 8:58 a.m. please call the NV Bar and tell them you rescind your pending applications as you are clearly too stupid to ever function in reality.
ReplyDelete11:13 - I think it is common for the real MBE to be (or at least feel) much more difficult than the practice exams. I definitely felt that way and so did everyone I talked to when I took it 2 years ago. There was a total of 2 questions to which I actually believed I knew the answers, but I still passed.
ReplyDeleteTwo questions haunt me:
ReplyDeleteIs AIDS/HIV considered a "loathsome disease?"
How much art must an art collector collect to be considered a merchant?
I hate the MBE.
I plan on taking the bar once and if I fail I'm going FBI. Taking an exam that stressful more than once after 3 years devoted and 3 months invested to preparing for it, seems irrational.
ReplyDelete3L
Spending 3 years of your life and preparing for that stressful of a test only to wimp out and not take it again seems irrational.
ReplyDeleteReasonable minds can disagree.
ReplyDelete@8:58
ReplyDeleteGod, shouldn't the bar cap how many times a person can take the exam. I know the repeaters are a good source of income, but good God, four times!
Apparently, the MBE is your downfall where you couldn't score above a 135 the past three times. Looks like you have a comprehension problem...which doesn't magically fix itself.
@7:58
ReplyDeleteBut if the bar capped the number of times someone could take the exam, wouldn't that sharply decrease the talent pool which feeds the high-quality representation at Adam Stokes and the Half-Assed Lawyers?
Can't have that...
@9:17
ReplyDeleteWhy are you picking on Adam Stokes? Didn't your mom teach you that you're not supposed to pick on people with tourettes?
7:58 and 9:17
ReplyDeleteToo bad Adam Stokes and his partners/associates will have the last laugh - when they are counting thier money and you are sitting on the curb begging for money cause you lost your 2000 hour billable job.
Your comments are (1) rude; (2) uncalled for; and (3) make you sound like an idiot.
Enjoy your billable hours - if you can even find a job with that attitude
To anyone that took the bar, don't sweat it. If you fail, it will be the best thing that happened to you. Then you won't look back after 5-10 years and realize that being a lawyer is worse than you could ever have imagined, and try to figure out how the hell to make a career change with all the school debt you still have.
ReplyDelete@ 5:32 pm
ReplyDeleteI'm only at four years and I feel the same way.