AGAIN …
It’s hard to believe it’s been nearly a decade since this website burst onto the South Carolina news-making scene with an exclusive story on a scandal involving the S.C. bar exam.
We thought we were so important back then …
Anyway, the S.C. Supreme Court has weighed in on the bar exam again this year … reaching a decision earlier this week to modify the state’s current testing procedures and use what’s called the Uniform Bar Examination (UBE).
“The first administration of the UBE in South Carolina will occur during the February 2017 South Carolina Bar Examination,” the court ruled.
The practical reality of this change for test-takers?
Once implemented, the bar exam will now be administered over a two-day period, not a three-day period.
A former test-taker told us this is a big deal because “one of the worst parts (of the bar) is the stress of it all throughout three days.”
Interesting …
Bar exam results have been on the decline nationwide over the past two years. In fact the website Above The Law recently predicted “the worst is yet to come in terms of bar passage lows.”
For our latest story on South Carolina’s bar exam results, click here.
20 comments
Fits a wannabe lawyer.
I’m sure the EIT, MLE, and even electricians licensing has made several changes in the last few years…never a peep about those.
Seriously..who cares?
Now they need another candidate with a photographic memory to defeat the exam.
“A former test-taker told us this is a big deal because “one of the worst parts (of the bar) is the stress of it all throughout three days.”
Well, gee whiz the poor babies who can’t handle the stress? Welcome to the real world,….
They’re going to make wonderful lawyers… as long as preparing and trial doesn’t take more than two days.
ATTORNEY: How was your first marriage terminated?
WITNESS: By death.
ATTORNEY: And by whose death was it terminated?
WITNESS: Take a guess
———————————
ATTORNEY: She had three children, right?
WITNESS: Yes.
ATTORNEY: How many were boys?
WITNESS: None.
ATTORNEY: Were there any girls?
WITNESS: Your Honor, Can I get a new attorney?
———————————————————————
ATTORNEY: This myasthenia gravis, does it affect your memory at all?
WITNESS: Yes.
ATTORNEY: And in what ways does it affect your memory?
WITNESS: I forget.
ATTORNEY: You forget? Can you give us an example of something you forgot?
A few days ago new McLaren F1 subsequent after earning 18,512$,,,this was my previous month’s paycheck ,and-a little over, 17k$ Last month ..3-5 h/r of work a day ..with extra open doors & weekly. paychecks.. it’s realy the easiest work I have ever Do.. I Joined This 7 months ago and now making over 87$, p/h.Learn More right Here
4msy….
??
??? http://GlobalSuperEmploymentVacanciesReportsLike/GetPaid/98$hourly…?.?.?.?.?.?.?.?.?.?.?.?.?.?.?.?.?.?.?.?.?.?.?.?.?.?.?.?.?.?.?.?.?.?.?.?.?..
That outfit Justice is wearing looks dreadful.
Well, her hair isn’t any better…. but I did hear what she said: “This is what’s going to be left of your balls when I get through with you!”
There is a painting showing a full-frontal nude of a beautiful justice. I saw it in a lawyer’s private office study. I just can’t remember who had it.
That’s right, class—what Will is parsing with “lower SAT and LSAT scores” and yet lacks to cohonnes to say
Is that affirmative action PC is a cancer on America’s political landscape—and a malignant one by the way
But then the era of higher standards gave us scum like Nikki Setzler and DUI-Hit-And-Run-Jean Toal herself
And flag-ripping RINOs like McMaster and Courson before the modern-day Brad Hutto Lilliputian elfs
Like Hugh Leatherman et. al. they aren’t worth the gunpowder it’d take to blow ‘em back where they came from
They ALL want to dance on your money this November AGAIN…but Tea WILL be spoiling that little prom !!!
And yet Chris Corley still has not passed the S.C. bar exam?
Superfly sadly thought passing the SC bar was the only way to actually become real
He didn’t know the flag-ripping legislator lawyers thought they had a license to steal !!!
No one can become real in any number of ways, though Chris Corley proves he’s ignorant white trash with every word he writes and utters, along with his failure to pass the S.C. Bar exam Corley is that you? LOL Hey, you’ve become a “real” loser, you had lowlife accomplished long ago.
Almost-Superfly never questioned why he thought “ignorant white trash” was an oxymoron
But if YOU keep paying for the grifter’s SNAP and Section 8 he’ll keep trying his Obama con !!!
I didn’t stress through the three days of the bar exam. I relaxed, studied, exercised, and drank a lot of Mad Dog each night.
And you were able to secure that prime office location in one of Danny Frazier’s finest strip malls, right between the massage parlor and the Title Loan office.
Three days was brutal. By the end of the 3rd day we were all punch-drunk. At the time, you were able to narrow down subject matter based on what had already been covered. We knew that the last examination was going to be on personal property law. Well, when we read the question, we couldn’t understand how it related to personal property. Somebody is the back of the room (the Spring Valley High School cafeteria), very audibly said “What is this shit?”. Well, everybody pretty much lost it. It took a few minutes for the test monitors to restore control.
Standards have unquestionably dropped, largely because of the Charleston School of Law. The pass rate was pretty high back when I took it, but the test was difficult. Generally speaking the people who flunked it were to people you expected to flunk it. Two pretty good students just freaked out and didn’t come back after the first day. They both later passed.
The only important issue that one needs to know is that the pass rate, whether or not an individual passes or whether or not anyone passes at all is at the complete, total and absolute discretion of the SC Supreme Court. It doesn’t matter what kind of tests are administered or on how many days. Jean Toal let the whole world know that in South Carolina, it only mattered what she decided and how she could manipulate the other justices into going along with her.
A South Carolina bar exam without having to have any knowledge of South Carolina law. You can expect the out of state lawyers who have already taken the UBE to start signing up. Because SC really needs more lawyers.
The bar exam is not difficult. Finding a job practicing law in a country with too many damn lawyers is difficult. Changing legal education to require more prep classes in undergrad, plus two years of law school – much like an MBA – would dramatically reduce the cost, at no threat to the public. Will this ever happen? Of course not.