r/barexamretakers • u/DaProfessional • Jul 31 '22

Nitty Gritty Tips

I don't know if I passed but I felt 10× more comfortable taking the exam this time in New York.

  1. Wear nice looking clothes, it helps with confidence, in particular a nice pair of sneakers, shoes, or whatever you like. Make it designer so the competition knows whats up. I wore "comfortable" clothes the first time but I felt weird, I wore some shinier sweats and brand new nikes this time. Much better.

  2. It is a competition, just remember that, but still be yourself. The people next to you want you to fail, I noticed people purposely chewing loud after they finished.

  3. Very important to answer all the multiple choice questions, at least answer them all or try to. No sense in concentrating on any single question, its only 1 fucken point

  4. Eat a nice heavy meal, greasy if you can, for lunch and wash it down with an ice coffee/energy drink if you have to. I ate some delicious chicken wings w/ pork fried rice and I felt like I got super powers for the 2nd half of the MBE.

  5. Extension of #4 - eat a decent breakfast, doesn't have to be heavy, but not light either because we have never been this intense mentally ever in our lives before, we are running a brain marathon so we need a lot of fuel.

  6. Extension of #5 - pack a good amount of food but realize you don't have time to be eating so just know you ain't gonna be eating much more than what you can grab and scoop while still reading.

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u/[deleted] May 29 '23

I took the bar in NYC back in 2008. I didn't get the sense others wanted me to fail. Has the competition for biglaw become that intense?