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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][qu[b]ote=Anonymous]I once heard Massechusetts referred to as Passechusetts. . [/quote][/b]

I've never heard that but I've taken both the CA and Mass. bar exams.  CA was three days and very tough.  Mass. was one day and a walk in the park.  [/quote]

[b]I call BS.  I have taken and passed both.  MA is actually 2 days, as you would know if you'd taken it.

The third day made the CA exam more grueling, but the CA essays and MA essays were comparable in terms of difficulty.[/quote]

And learn how to spell it.   :shock: [/quote][/b]

[b]Disagree.  There's a big difference between the CA and the Mass. bar (which was only one day back when I took it).  CA would test you on the 17th exception to the mailbox rule but Mass. would test just on the mailbox rule.  I kept thinking "there's got to be a trick question in here somewhere".  CA purposefully wants to keep lawyers from coming into the state so makes the bar very tough, as does VA with its never-ending CLE requirements.  Also CA allows or used to allow "reading" candidates who never went to law school but studied in a law office under a lawyer's tutelage for two years to take the test.  That allowance harkens back to prioneer days when students couldn't get to a local law school. Calif. also has a for-profit law school allowance.  Anyone who can pony up the money can go to law school.  Those graduates often have great difficulty passing the California bar.  I don't know if that still exists but it was crushing for many students to spend more than three years paying and studying in a for-profit and then not be able to pass the CA bar.[/quote][/b]

PP here who also took and passed both.  You are certainly entitled to your opinion, and perhaps the exams were very different when you took them.  (I am curious, how long ago was the MA bar just one day?)  I disagree that CA is fundamentally harder.  Time consuming, yes, but not harder.  I took the MA bar first then CA six months later, studying part time at night after working all day.  There so much hype about the CA bar exam, but it is overblown.  When you control for graduates of non-ABA accredited schools, the bar pass rate is not that different from other states.[/quote]

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