Day after part II

Not sure how I feel about the exam. I felt pretty good about the last one, but those feelings were obviously unreliable. This exam was significantly more complicated, more or less managed to test the majority of subjects, and definitively demonstrated the Bar Examiners willingness to play mind games and fuck with us.

The prevailing wisdom going into the exam seemed to that anything but the First Amendment was fair game for Con Law. Same for Wills. I think most people expected a full Community Property question, with maybe a minor cross-over with something else. But except for the widows election doctrine, it was pretty much a full-blown Wills question. Apparently several people somehow managed to treat the entire question as a pure CP, don't know how they managed to do that if true. Coming out of the second essay section, I heard more than a few people complain that they had over relied on Sakai's predictions and had totally fucked themselves in the process.

I still hold to my theory that we were better off with a difficult bar exam as it gives us a little more latitude to miss minor issues, but I won't be surprised to see a very low pass rate out of this one. On the other hand, the California Bar has been under increasing scrutiny for the low pass rates, so they may recognize that the exam was particularly nasty and adjust the scores accordingly.

In the end I'm cautiously optimistic, I was significantly more prepared going in to this one, and feel that I may have made up some ground on the third day, but I guess I'll have to keep my fingers crossed until May.