Wow - been crazy busy last few days since exam... well by busy I mean watching shit loads of films that i wanna catch HERE before i have to fly back home tomorrow :( Since exam i have watched:
- 1408
- Simpsons
- Sicko
- Evan Almighty
... ok that isn't that much really for me but also been to a batting cage to get out some aggression (really not as easy as it looks!) and slept a lot!
But anyway - as it nears time for me to go back home to the horrible country i come from (ok i guess it aint THAT bad...) i just wanted to post on here to thank all of you guys on here! All of your support/advice as well as just your thoughts on the material and studying have been invaluable in the preceding weeks and during the exam... i definitely wanna stay in touch with you guys either via here or (if you are thinking of finishing with this now exam over) via email and i hope you ALL pass! :)
Monday, July 30, 2007
Thursday, July 26, 2007
Day 3 - Bar-OVER!!
It's done!!!!!!!!!! WOOOO!!!!!!! NO MORE STRESS/STUDYING UNTIL MID NOVEMBER!!!!!!!
So can I be bothered to talk about todays exam?! Well it went alright i think - all the questions seemed doable which is a change from New York where one or two just seemed impossible!
Essay 1 - hmm can't even remember what it was?!? Ohhhhh right - the criminal murder/constitutional one - predictions were REALLY off this time! I heard people say that criminal would likely be a crim pro question cus they been on crimes A LOT recently - seemed alright tho but I wish i had read about mistake of fact/mistake of law - i looked at it the other day and got confused and was gonna look it up and figure it out but decided couldn't be bothered - dammit! Con law was alright - symbolic speech stuff... reasonably ok
Essay 2 - how many issues were in that question!??! I filled a page of scratch paper with the thousands of issues but then when I came down to writing it, seemed to work out ok. Contract/remedies one - kinda predicted this yesterday. Went through formation and stuff - was a bit of agency referred to in q but not especially relevant - i stuck in something i remembered from commercial law at uni about the rule re: undisclosed principals but that's ENGLISH law so unlikely to be right anyway!
Essay 3 - Community property - dunno if anyone else found this.. .could have been I missed something but there really didn't seem a whole lot to write on this one. The rules that I stated anyway kinda cut off any further discussion of anything because it was just like 'that's the rule - it applies here - disposition is X.' I probably missed a load of stuff but whatever!
PT 2 - after yesterdays snoozefest I refilled my caffeine tanks at lunchtime and went in wired... not bad PT to be fair - was expecting some crazy hard document thing but a persuasive letter seemed reasonably doable - again could quite easily have fucked it up but then again - might have got it sorted!
So here ends the saga for now until mid November... gonna try find a film to watch later tonight but right now i could just do with some sleep... altho don't think i WILL sleep!
So can I be bothered to talk about todays exam?! Well it went alright i think - all the questions seemed doable which is a change from New York where one or two just seemed impossible!
Essay 1 - hmm can't even remember what it was?!? Ohhhhh right - the criminal murder/constitutional one - predictions were REALLY off this time! I heard people say that criminal would likely be a crim pro question cus they been on crimes A LOT recently - seemed alright tho but I wish i had read about mistake of fact/mistake of law - i looked at it the other day and got confused and was gonna look it up and figure it out but decided couldn't be bothered - dammit! Con law was alright - symbolic speech stuff... reasonably ok
Essay 2 - how many issues were in that question!??! I filled a page of scratch paper with the thousands of issues but then when I came down to writing it, seemed to work out ok. Contract/remedies one - kinda predicted this yesterday. Went through formation and stuff - was a bit of agency referred to in q but not especially relevant - i stuck in something i remembered from commercial law at uni about the rule re: undisclosed principals but that's ENGLISH law so unlikely to be right anyway!
Essay 3 - Community property - dunno if anyone else found this.. .could have been I missed something but there really didn't seem a whole lot to write on this one. The rules that I stated anyway kinda cut off any further discussion of anything because it was just like 'that's the rule - it applies here - disposition is X.' I probably missed a load of stuff but whatever!
PT 2 - after yesterdays snoozefest I refilled my caffeine tanks at lunchtime and went in wired... not bad PT to be fair - was expecting some crazy hard document thing but a persuasive letter seemed reasonably doable - again could quite easily have fucked it up but then again - might have got it sorted!
So here ends the saga for now until mid November... gonna try find a film to watch later tonight but right now i could just do with some sleep... altho don't think i WILL sleep!
Wednesday, July 25, 2007
Bar exam - day 2!
MBE day! And i am not allowed to tell you anything about any of the questions orally or in writing but if any of you are slightly telephathic i could send telepathic signals - those are not excluded!!
Well what can ya say - kinda hard q's, got really tired in the afternoon session and left a little early - then took ole metro back to proper LA and now considering the possibility of sleep or study...
One more day! Need to be awake for it tho!
Well what can ya say - kinda hard q's, got really tired in the afternoon session and left a little early - then took ole metro back to proper LA and now considering the possibility of sleep or study...
One more day! Need to be awake for it tho!
Tuesday, July 24, 2007
Bar exam - day 1!
Um.. ok?! That was a strange day of 'barring!' Got there nice and early, got my seat - front row center - best view in the place! lol
So essays (i'm hoping I got the subjects right anyway - anyone thinking differently - do put me right! lol)
1st one = Real Property - Landlord tenant stuff - ummm ok?! I thought everyone was going on about how unlikely landlord/tenant stuff was gonna be for this one?? I think i did ok... constructive eviction? bit of s/f? commercial lease? Pah i don't care - it's done! lol
2nd = Tort - strict product liability/negligence - nice one - pretty much just went methodically through each one analysing with regards each s/l and negligence... went crazy - reached page 8 on this one - more than the PT!
3rd = Evidence - this was the shocker - what the fuck?! I mean the question itself was fine but I read the instructions on the front where it said 'answer in federal law unless it states otherwise' and the evidence q DIDN'T state otherwise?! Thought this was sposed to be first evidence Cali distinctions?? I wrote the whole question mainly focusing on the whole Federal side but now and then just sticking in brackets something about Cali just in case their quality control is realllly shit and they actually wanted cali law...
Then had a wander around, grabbed some pizza and headed back for Act 2:
The PT! - was a nice ish one - i mean i do mean to place warranties on all this stuff cus it is quite possible that I fucked it ALL up but it seemed to be a nice straightforward objective memo - soooo an essay in memo form?! Well just wrote loads for that one too - was being a full scale SHEEP - listed all the factors from the different lists from different subjects... great fun!
Came out - phoned to check if my lift was gonna happen - wasn't - bailed on me! lol - was too wired/strangely calm to care so i went back in found out where the metro line was and rode it right back to Hollywood!
Now I am tired... VERY tired... think the pro plus wore off - i was gonna read thru my subjects but I may just goto sleep instead...
Hope it went well for everyone else... and hope it actually DID go well for me lol... any predictions on next essays? I dunno for sure but doya think that PR PT was all the PR we gonna get?! Or do you think it's still lurking around? My calculations suggest that the next essay exam should be at least 2 non-MBE subjects - maybe civ pro and community property and then i would guess contract/remedies or something...
So essays (i'm hoping I got the subjects right anyway - anyone thinking differently - do put me right! lol)
1st one = Real Property - Landlord tenant stuff - ummm ok?! I thought everyone was going on about how unlikely landlord/tenant stuff was gonna be for this one?? I think i did ok... constructive eviction? bit of s/f? commercial lease? Pah i don't care - it's done! lol
2nd = Tort - strict product liability/negligence - nice one - pretty much just went methodically through each one analysing with regards each s/l and negligence... went crazy - reached page 8 on this one - more than the PT!
3rd = Evidence - this was the shocker - what the fuck?! I mean the question itself was fine but I read the instructions on the front where it said 'answer in federal law unless it states otherwise' and the evidence q DIDN'T state otherwise?! Thought this was sposed to be first evidence Cali distinctions?? I wrote the whole question mainly focusing on the whole Federal side but now and then just sticking in brackets something about Cali just in case their quality control is realllly shit and they actually wanted cali law...
Then had a wander around, grabbed some pizza and headed back for Act 2:
The PT! - was a nice ish one - i mean i do mean to place warranties on all this stuff cus it is quite possible that I fucked it ALL up but it seemed to be a nice straightforward objective memo - soooo an essay in memo form?! Well just wrote loads for that one too - was being a full scale SHEEP - listed all the factors from the different lists from different subjects... great fun!
Came out - phoned to check if my lift was gonna happen - wasn't - bailed on me! lol - was too wired/strangely calm to care so i went back in found out where the metro line was and rode it right back to Hollywood!
Now I am tired... VERY tired... think the pro plus wore off - i was gonna read thru my subjects but I may just goto sleep instead...
Hope it went well for everyone else... and hope it actually DID go well for me lol... any predictions on next essays? I dunno for sure but doya think that PR PT was all the PR we gonna get?! Or do you think it's still lurking around? My calculations suggest that the next essay exam should be at least 2 non-MBE subjects - maybe civ pro and community property and then i would guess contract/remedies or something...
Monday, July 23, 2007
Day 40 - The Final Reckoning
Wow - really didn't realise that i started precisely 40 days before the bar exam! Crazy stuff!!
My initial plan for today was to read everything twice... literally everything - under the idea that, I managed to read loads of pages of Harry Potter yesterday and thus I could easily just read all my notes etc twice today and finish by 2pm. Didn't quite work - just felt myself getting more and more mired in different subjects, seeing possible questions in every single specific little area of the law that I didn't know too well... I seem to remember in NY bar exam there was an entire question on grand jury proceedings and that was THE criminal question?! Ugh - whatever....
I guess that it is true that to some extent - what you don't know by now, you ain't gonna before tomorrow... hating tomorrow the worse cus I'm alright at MBE's and theres only 6 subjects needed to review the night before... plus the last day should be alright as it's
A. The LAST DAY
B. We should have some idea of what subjects will/won't come up and so less to review.
Problem is - this first day - anything could come up... tried to look at patterns and saw that vaguely more Multistate subj q's on first day but VERY vague pattern...
I think i'm gonna leave it all up to fate now and go watch some film or something, sleep early and get up ready to face my demons/dragon tomorrow!
Good luck to everyone on here!!! :)
My initial plan for today was to read everything twice... literally everything - under the idea that, I managed to read loads of pages of Harry Potter yesterday and thus I could easily just read all my notes etc twice today and finish by 2pm. Didn't quite work - just felt myself getting more and more mired in different subjects, seeing possible questions in every single specific little area of the law that I didn't know too well... I seem to remember in NY bar exam there was an entire question on grand jury proceedings and that was THE criminal question?! Ugh - whatever....
I guess that it is true that to some extent - what you don't know by now, you ain't gonna before tomorrow... hating tomorrow the worse cus I'm alright at MBE's and theres only 6 subjects needed to review the night before... plus the last day should be alright as it's
A. The LAST DAY
B. We should have some idea of what subjects will/won't come up and so less to review.
Problem is - this first day - anything could come up... tried to look at patterns and saw that vaguely more Multistate subj q's on first day but VERY vague pattern...
I think i'm gonna leave it all up to fate now and go watch some film or something, sleep early and get up ready to face my demons/dragon tomorrow!
Good luck to everyone on here!!! :)
Sunday, July 22, 2007
Day 39 - Succumbed....
Ok so I decided that i would in fact read it (new harry potter book) took a while but it's done, it is no longer a distraction, I no longer have to worry about inadvertently finding out what happens in the end and am now 100% focused on the impending doom of Tuesday! (AND the book was AWESOME :))
Did some PR work this morning and gonna review a bit of stuff... recently been worried about getting there and that sorta thing - is anyone NOT gonna work tomorrow? I know they suggest you set a time and finish but I think that will be hard! Plus - is anyone handwriting it? I am and started wondering if the whole 'ball point pen' thing is strictly enforced... I write best with fountain pen so will probably just use that....
The end is in sight :)
Did some PR work this morning and gonna review a bit of stuff... recently been worried about getting there and that sorta thing - is anyone NOT gonna work tomorrow? I know they suggest you set a time and finish but I think that will be hard! Plus - is anyone handwriting it? I am and started wondering if the whole 'ball point pen' thing is strictly enforced... I write best with fountain pen so will probably just use that....
The end is in sight :)
Saturday, July 21, 2007
Day 38 - Temptation..
Not especially productive day yesterday - heat plus boredom kinda took its toll. In the evening actually did go and get the new Harry Potter book, then read first 2 chapters and went to bed. SO hard to just go to bed! Was really tempted to get it out of the way and just read the whole thing and still am this morning but I keep telling myself - PR is SO much more interesting as is a crazy little subject called Community Property!
Ugh!
Kinda want this all just to be over now but also need more time really to cover everything properly!
Ugh!
Kinda want this all just to be over now but also need more time really to cover everything properly!
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