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::sheepish grin::
Apparently I REALLY suck at multiple choice.
I got home from the NYC gtg a few minutes ago and found the NY bar exam results in my mailbox. If you pass (which I did) they only give you your MBE score (the
multiple choice portion), not the total score. Your MBE score is
factored in with your essays and you have to score a minimum between
the two to pass the bar.
Let me just say that my multiple choice
score was low enough that I am now able to declare myself the NY Bar
Exam Essay Empress....
Because there's no way in hell I should
have been able to pass unless I thoroughly rocked the essay readers. 
And I did this all while HANDWRITING (other bar takers will understand
this feat) the exam; with one contact lens in, and one contact lens
out; AND with having my pen explode all over the exam with fifteen
minutes left to go.
Go me!
In all seriousness, though,
when the hell is a judge going to ask me: "Ms. Parker, does your client
want to plead (a) guilty, (b) not guilty, or (c) not guilty by reason
of mental disease or defect. I hates me some multiple choice....
Re: ::sheepish grin::
One contact lens? Really? That is quite a feat.
My vision is so bad that if I had to take an exam with one contact lens, I'd be puking over the exam.
Good work.
Awesome!
I really think the bar exam grading is a total crapshoot. We got our scores for the MBE and for each essay. They changed the way they compute what a "pass" score is, but they still use the same scale to grade each essay. Under the old scale, I failed Real Property (as in, the class everyone takes 1L year), but I passed Commercial Paper, which was NOT listed on our list of possible subject areas. My strategy for that question was: Write big and use some legal-sounding words. And I got a higher score on that than Real Property. Go figure!
What's with states just giving out scores?
We get our scores for the MPRE. Aside from that, we get total scores if we fail, and MBE scores if we request them and pay $25 for them. I don't think you can ever find out your total score if you pass.
I think that's standard.
Last year, DC gave everyone who passed their MBE score (no charge) and both scores to people who failed.
I think CA only releases MBE scores if you pay. I am fairly sure that if you fail, they give you everything back.
I did well on the MBE last year, so I am hoping that it saved me this time around too. Essays are not my strength and the CA ones were horrible.
Congrats on passing the bar!!!
You had to wait to get your score in the mail? The results are posted on the internet here......
Anything you can achieve through hard work, you could also just buy.