September 5, 2006
More bar exam-related ridiculousness ::
legal — tagged bar exam, bar study, legal, personal and rant
8:22 am
I noticed that James started posting more regularly again. How nice! One post that particularly caught my eye was this one, on the stupidity of bar review courses. He notes specifically the lawsuit that the National Conference of Bar Examiners brought against PMBR, the self-appointed “leader” in Multistate Bar Exam (MBE) test preparation, which PMBR lost. In the opinion, the federal judge presiding over the case noted that PMBR lifted a test question directly from the MBE but actually got the answer wrong.
I remember when I was debating on whether to take the PMBR course, one of the sales representatives noted that lawsuit as a selling point for the program. The inference I was supposed to draw was that PMBR’s questions were so good that NBCE was actually scared of the program, and thus brought a (frivolous?) lawsuit to protect themselves. The disingenous way in which the rep tried to present this suggestion immediately turned me off to the possibility of taking the exam. In the back of my mind since then I’ve found I’ve had a little regret for not taking the exam or, more generally, not taking every opportunity to prepare myself for the bar exam. But after hearing this story, I don’t feel so bad at all.
Which I guess goes to show that some opportunties are best left unexplored.
