THE TESTS

So you may have noticed that I’ve dropped off the radar. That is because we are about to begin THE TESTS. I have been pulling 12-13 hour days since thanksgiving, preparing for THE TESTS. I can’t remember ever feeling pressure like this in my life. Honestly. It all comes down to THE TESTS. THE TESTS determine 85 – 100 % of your grade. THE TESTS are all curved. Real live curves. Like the only way you know how you did is by comparing how much better or worse you did then 75 other people. And then you get this little number called your class rank. Everything from here on out is based on your class rank: interviews, scholarships, etc. They tell you that you can still get a job with a low class rank and then in the next breath they tell you that the only way to keep your options open as to which kind of job is to keep your class rank high. How do you do that? There is only one way. Score well on THE TESTS. When is somebody going to move the standardized testing debate to law school? I could literally fail out of law school and be told not to come back next semester based on my four hour performance on THE TESTS. That’s four hours on Wednesday, three hours on Saturday, and four hours on Tuesday. I know that failing out is a possibility, because we have two people in our class who failed out last year. I’ve talked to them. They thought they were doing fine. They thought they understood the law. Then they took THE TESTS. Then they got a letter in the mail, saying maybe you should consider another career or at least wait a year and start all over again.

Take all your positive law school exam thoughts and center them on ME tomorrow Wednesday at 1:00. (Unless you’re in my class, in which case you better be spotting issues)