Bar Exam Quotes

• I never worked on anything so hard in my life [like my book 'Straight to the Heart: Political Cantos'], including the Bar exam. The only other thing I could compare it to is having four babies by age 24. That was hard.

  Angela Alioto

  Baby, Book, Heart

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• Looking back, I question whether I really loved Nate, or just the security of our relationship. I wonder if my feelings for him didn’t have a lot to do with hating my job. From the bar exam through that first hellish year as an associate, Nate was my escape. And sometimes that can feel an awful lot like love.

  Emily Giffin

  Jobs, Hate, Years

  Emily Giffin (2010). “Something Borrowed: A Novel”, p.61, Macmillan

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• I was born in 1968, just eighteen months after my sister Chrisse and just one year after Dad passed the bar exam.

  Carre Otis

  Dad, Years, Bars

  Carre Otis, Hugo Schwyzer (2011). “Beauty, Disrupted: The Carre Otis Story”, p.6, Harper Collins

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• Due to affirmative action, about half of the black law students fall to the bottom 10% percent of the class and they are 2.5 times more likely than whites not to graduate college. Blacks are four times less likely to pass the bar exam on the first attempt.

  Peter Kirsanow

  Fall, College, Law

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• The bar exam's a mother. I mean, for me it was. I failed it the first two times, but I guess it's like losing your virginity, third time's the charm.

  Jimmy McGill

  Mother, Mean, Two

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• I went to law school which is a 3-year program in the US that is focused primarily on memorizing certain doctrines and taking exams that test whether you can apply those doctrines to help prepare for the bar exam. If you are lucky, you get a few classes where you are encouraged to think more critically and read critical texts rather than just casebooks, and perhaps write a paper that is not a legal memo or brief.

  Dean Spade

  Writing, School, Thinking

  "On Normal Life". Interview with Natalie Oswin, societyandspace.org. January 15, 2014.

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