Waiting for bar results fucking sucks

Congrats!

Thank goodness!! My heart’s been in my throat for the past two days and I don’t even know you. What’s wrong with me? Congratulations, Lez!

Congratulations. Enjoy your victory! :slight_smile:

Thank you everyone! I checked again this morning in case there was some kind of mistake. Nope, still a lawyer! I’m now nursing a slight hangover and preparing to head off to the spa in true attorney fashion. :smiley:

Congrats. Please check your soul at the door. Remember, even whores get to choose their clients.

Nice job, lezlers! Have you considered what you’ll do with an ambulance once you catch it?

Hey - congratulations lezlers. Now sue someone for shits and giggles.

That’s some great news. Well done and congratulations!

Congratulations! smooch

Thanks again everyone! I’m posting this from the PRESIDENTIAL SUITE at the spa I’m staying in! That’s right, they must’ve got the memo that I passed! Heh. Seriously, I don’t know what happened but I’m not questioning it. I just ate breakfast sitting at opposite ends of an eight person dining room table just so I could say “how are the eggs darling?” It was also fun sliding the syrup bottle bar style back and forth to eachother.

That’s how us lawya’s roll!

Congratulations!

Aw yeah! Congratulations! This must mean there’s still hope for the rest of us. :smiley:

My law school switch exam software, darkly alluding to an “incident” at the last New York State Bar exam. Apparently 47 students’ exams did not upload and were not recoverable. :eek: A few passed without the credit from the part that didn’t upload, and were passed. A few would have failed even if they got a perfect score on the part that didn’t upload, and were failed. The one in the middle got their scores “estimated” by some complex algorithm.

Poor bastards.

So - I must ask, did you make a perfect score?

They don’t score the bar (unless you fail). If you pass, you just pass.

That sounds like the actuarial exams that I did, where there were five grades:

  • Pass
  • FA
  • FB
  • FC
  • FD

For the pass grade there was no gradation. And if you actually passed you didn’t care how much you had passed by anyway! The detailed failure grades allowed you to see how badly you had failed.

Well, as my dad said when he got his Bar, he beat a perfect score, which as he and his classmates, was one question more than needed to pass.

Ah! A motion craving oyer is “Cite?”
Congratulations, lezlers!

Congratulations – I told you that you passed; I could see it from clear across the country. :slight_smile:

Re: It being the only bar you’ll ever pass: That’s assuming you park in Cali to stay. I’ve passed three bar exams so far. I can’t imagine signing up for a fourth at this point, but history indicates I shouldn’t rule it out. Moving is getting easier as reciprocity increases, though.

Anyhoo, enjoy your new status, counselor. And let me know when you can say “I’m a lawyer” with a straight face. It took me a couple years.

ETA: In my experience of both taking and grading bar exams, they would tell you your numberical score for the Multi-state as well as the number that constituted a “pass”, but the essays are Pass/Fail. In grading, we graded each essay as P/F, and any essays that were a close call were looked at again by the grader, and then if he or she still had a question, they were looked at again by a small committee of graders who collectively decide if it’s P or F. IME, as a grader, you grade one subject, so you grade, say, torts or civil procedure, and you grade the same question on some percentage of the exams, maybe all of them maybe half or a quarter, depending on the number of graders there are.

Congratulations, both on passing, and on getting Drunkie! :stuck_out_tongue: :smiley:

It’s interesting how students at law fear the emotional trauma of flunking the bar exam to such a great degree that they totally ignore the pending physical trama of the branding that takes place at their bar convocation ceremony. (Gawd-dammed “seal of approval” nonsense – why can’t they just issue ID cards to lawyers stating that they are members of the bar.)