Wednesday, July 30, 2008

The Bar, Day Three

And thank goodness, the final day!! Here's how it went:

Today was MBE day. The MBE is an evil exam, designed to make you second-guess yourself on every answer. Most the of the questions are written with 4 possible answers, with 2 Yes, because... and 2 No, because...

It's just terrible. The answers don't seem to fit into what I knew the law to be. It's like the writers picked the most obscure angle of any question and then made me delve into the question 3 or 4 times to try to figure out what they were looking for. The topics are given on the NCBE website, but the content of the questions are so obscure. I don't know how I did. I felt OK after the morning session, but the afternoon was brutal.

Did I mention that you get an average of 1.6 minutes per question? And some of the prompts are 1 1/2 columns. It takes every bit of concentration that you have to answer them.

I can't talk a whole lot about the topics, and I can't even mention the questions, because you swear to barely discuss this test when you open your test booklet. So, I'm not trying to be vague, I just don't want to get hauled in front of the Character and Fitness board.

Suffice to say, everyone who walked out after this test looked like the walking wounded.

So now it's done, and I wait until September 26 to find out if I passed. If I did, the swearing in is on Momma's birthday. I really hope I passed.

1 comment:

Wanda said...

Christine, I'm sorry I wasn't in on this before or I would've given you tons of cheering on. I hope you're recovering from the bar and I'm sure you passed. It's sounds insanely difficult, but I know you did well. Post-bar Hoorah to you, lady. Bazillions never make it that far. Hugs!