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3) It's possible to pass the bar after failing a lot, and New York is hard. MA is less difficult but the Passachusetts comments in here are unnecessarily snarky and mean. You think this poor girl isn't aware of that and using that thought to make herself feel worse? I know what it's like to fail the bar - it feels like shit. You go on Facebook and see all your friends celebrating their results, getting sworn in, starting work as real lawyers, and you just want to go away and die.

It's not the hours she puts in the studying (though at this point I'd recommend putting in the crazy 500 hours that BarBri recommends) but how much she gets out of it. Tell her to analyze her essays closely, and then go back and really kill the MBE. The MBE is the easiest place to gain points, it's very much an objective test of black letter law recollection. Memorization, understanding the application of the law, and reading comprehension high enough to notice the MBE's tricks are the only skills you need, and the MBE has the same questions no matter what state you're in.

Essay grading varies by state unfortunately, as does the law, so she really needs to read what her graders said about her essays.

And the MPT component is just a gimme - easiest place to rack up points on the bar exam, whether you're in a mega-tough state like California or in an easy state like Mississippi.

She can do this. People from third-tier law schools outside the Top 100 pass the bar; she can too. It will happen. But first she needs to get ANY job to start paying off her debt even at the most low amount possible, and network.[/quote]

This PP has got it 100% right. OP, your daughter CAN pass the bar exam if she learns how to study for the exam - it sounds like she has been memorizing material but not going into the bar exam with any strategy.

I took the New York bar a decade ago and it was pretty damn tough, but once you figure out exactly what the strategy is for the bar exam, all the barriers fall away.[/quote]

*niece[/quote]

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