How to BS a Bar Exam Answer in 10 Easy Steps
Are you wondering what to do if you see a bar exam question and have no idea how to answer it? Students generally take one of two approaches: Some panic and do not write anything (or barely write anything), chalk it up to a loss, and pray that they can answer the remaining questions correctly. Others write beautiful answers that have virtually nothing of great substance in them.
We highly recommend that you take the latter approach. Why? Because bar exam graders are busy. If you write nothing, or close to nothing, they will happily give you a point or two (if that) and be on their way. They do not want to spend hours grading essays. They want to get back to their glass of wine or their Netflix or whatever. So if you write very little you are making it very easy for them to justify a low score.
On the contrary, if you write a lot, you may just convince them to give you a few extra points that you (probably) don’t deserve. We have read thousands upon thousands of bar exam essays and we have seen students get average scoring essays even though they truly have no idea what they are talking about! Every point counts on the bar exam. Learning how to BS a bar exam answer can make the difference between passing and failing. Not to mention it will help you feel more confident walking into the bar exam. So with that…
Here is our 10 best tips to BS a bar exam answer if you truly do not know what to say. Read more