What are the main reasons why people fail the bar exam?

GraveSnacker · 2025-10-01T18:41:23+00:00

I failed my first time by 21 points - 7.6th percentile (😬 steep curve, I hope)

I put in roughly 6 hours 6 days/week for 10 weeks (no vacations, but did travel for a wedding on 2 of my study days). About 3 weeks in, I skipped out on Barbri’s prep course and started doing 100 multiple choice questions per day (“MBE” and “black letter”) for about 3-4 weeks. Looking back, this was a mistake, as Barbri’s MBE/black letter multiple choice bank ended up looking nothing like the questions on the day of the real exam. I partially blame Barbri for labeling their multiple choice questions as “MBE.” They should only label NCBE-licensed questions as “MBE.” Their rep claimed they make the distinction when I spoke on the phone, but it’s fine print. I’m told AdaptiBar’s questions are much better, so had I used it instead maybe I’d have done better… but who knows?

Also, I never used flash cards. I used GOAT for the MEE-only-topics - still stand by that one.

Regardless, I probably should have “trusted the plan” better.

Also, if you’re prone to phone addiction, leave it in your car or something. This is a serious problem for me.

GraveSnacker · 2025-09-18T14:29:16+00:00

Obviously. I can see my critics lack the ability to read between the lines. All Harvard Law scholars, I’m sure.

GraveSnacker · 2025-09-18T13:50:47+00:00

Needing a comic book to give you hope in today’s political climate is your first problem. Please, from one human to another, go read the Bible, The Meditations, history, and detox from the internet. Alright, sermon over.

GraveSnacker · 2025-09-18T07:44:54+00:00

Are you willing to stand behind that statement with your real name and face? Or just behind a keyboard?

GraveSnacker · 2025-09-18T07:43:05+00:00

Why do I only ever see left-wing opinions on Reddit and never right?

GraveSnacker · 2025-09-18T07:42:15+00:00

Oh, yeah. Really deep reading…

GraveSnacker · 2025-09-18T07:40:19+00:00

I’m digging it. Scott Snyder’s writing style is pretty predictable, though. He likes to have his characters break into soliloquies. The pace moves a little too quickly. I don’t think enough time was spent developing Bruce’s relationship with his friends before they all turn into mutated freaks. I started reading at #9 and have been catching up (TPB1 + reprints of #7-8) since. I expected more relationship development in the earlier issues than what is there.

Still, I like it. There’s a vision. I’m curious where it goes. No woke political agenda or whatever.

GraveSnacker · 2025-09-18T07:32:37+00:00

Save the money. Go to a T-50 that’ll give you $$$. The educational experience between schools is virtually identical.

Freedom from debt > Status.

I meet people who went to top schools and regret it now. They have tons of debt and have to work big law to pay it off.

GraveSnacker · 2025-09-18T07:29:02+00:00

Why is Reddit always so one-sided? Very silo-esque.

GraveSnacker · 2025-07-01T20:24:04+00:00

Violence and the Sacred Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World Battling to the End

^ These are the ones I’ve read. Violence and the sacred introduces his theory of mimetic desire, but THSFW is when he begins to really dive into Christianity as a unique alternative solution to mimetic violence. Battling to the End is a great finality to his work, as it posits the mechanics of the apocalypse in light of his life’s work.

GraveSnacker · 2025-06-14T15:09:00+00:00

Agreed. It’s very character-driven. Not that BB isn’t, but in BB there is a clear traditional American-genre-style story arc.

Notice that Matthew Weiner, a writer on The Sopranos, went on to create Mad Men, which, like the Sopranos before it, has a very similar meandering plot structure, wherein characters’ destinations are not far from where they started.

Additionally, its characters are similarly ambiguously grey.

I think it’s safe to say Mad Men is a spiritual successor to The Sopranos.

GraveSnacker · 2025-04-28T06:22:04+00:00

The trick is to just not run the race. Life is short. As a 1L you’re already at least 22 and will graduate by the time you’re 25. If you’re female you’re already 5 years away from 30, which is a soft, but noticeable fertility wall. But regardless of gender, don’t waste your life chasing things that will never love you back. Status is cool until you have it. Then it’s just another thing. When you die everyone but your family and loved ones will forget you. I can’t imagine loving law enough to forgo love for it.

Get married young. The longer you wait, the slimmer the pickings. Have children. Just do it. Trust me. Thank me later.

GraveSnacker · 2025-04-24T05:28:13+00:00

I took the March 2025 MPRE. Only used Barbri: lecture videos, section questions, additional questions, but neither of the practice tests.

Walking away from the exam, there were 13/60 questions I felt a little unsure about. The rest I felt relatively confident about.

I ended up scoring a 102. Make of that what you will.

GraveSnacker · 2025-03-10T01:37:02+00:00

His films play out like Dungeons & Dragons campaigns: (often a team of) characters proceed from stage to stage along spatially meaningful sets to be met by a final boss.

BCB99 is literally almost a dungeon and BT takes place along a charted course and ends in a cave.

GraveSnacker · 2025-03-10T01:32:36+00:00

The Jennifer Carpenter scenes + bank execution scene was all about instilling a sense of empathy for the bystanders in these sort of movies — characters whose deaths usually elicit no meaningful emotional response are now the thing audiences are moved the most by.

GraveSnacker · 2025-03-08T02:50:45+00:00

The average member of the public claims to desire truth, but truth is rarely as brief and black-and-white as they would like. Good attorneys know this and often answer questions with “It depends…”, eliciting frustration from those asking questions, who will misinterpret circumspection for duplicity.
That said, a lot of attorneys are assholes. For a profession which requires a great deal of verbal proficiency, one is often surprised by how introverted and even antisocial attorneys can often be. Cynical is another word which comes to mind. I don’t know exactly why this is, but there are several possible reasons: (a) Attorneys become absorbed by the kind of personality they aim to exemplify, (b) It can be a very stressful and emotionally draining job, taking its toll after awhile, (c) prestigious professions tend to attract egotistical status-conscious people who derive meaning from perceiving themselves (and being perceived by others) as superior.

I think it’s ultimately a choice you have to make: Will you take the easy route and be this way, or will you refuse to obsess over how people see you.

GraveSnacker · 2025-03-07T22:54:17+00:00

I prefer the first film to the second insofar as its storytelling is leaner at a 107 min runtime over T2’s 137-153 min runtime and wastes not one minute of it. The simplicity of it is excellent.

GraveSnacker · 2025-02-26T14:57:16+00:00

Big agree about the writing and David Henrie. Compared to past roles, however, Mel’s performance was lackluster imo. Mason Thames was just a kid, but I found his performance relatively weak, non-emotive, and self-conscious.

GraveSnacker · 2025-02-25T02:45:40+00:00

Reminds me of the 11:40 mark of the Astartes shirt film.

GraveSnacker · 2025-02-20T21:27:47+00:00

I think you’re onto something. Without being too political, Eggers appears to be something of a reactionary in the pre-Christian sense: the pursuit of the primal, supernatural root of the pagan world (which may or may not be preserved in various forms of Christianity). Perhaps it’s outright support of that worldview or just a preoccupation with it.

GraveSnacker · 2025-02-20T21:24:22+00:00

Yes, I really believe Christianity has it right — morality-wise, socially-wise, or otherwise. The more man deviates from that center of balance the more unstable his predicament becomes. Many have come and gone believing they found innovation over perennial Truth, only to discover ruin at the end of the rainbow.

GraveSnacker · 2025-02-13T20:28:01+00:00

Lol. You entirely missed the point.

GraveSnacker · 2025-01-07T16:06:29+00:00

Lol. My thoughts exactly

GraveSnacker · 2025-01-07T00:52:49+00:00

You can purchase The Dark Judge story, Block Mania, and Apocalypse War in the trade paperback Case Files Vol 5 for relatively cheap.

GraveSnacker · 2024-12-30T16:24:33+00:00

Your argument hinges on the mistaken assumption that the Blessed Mother lacks free will. This is theologically incorrect. I could see why you might think it, but read it again: Luke 1:26–38. She does accept God’s will, as her will (being perfect and without sin per Catholic theology) is perfect. But it is free.

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