Earlier this year I sued the State Bar of California for incorrectly stating that their “First Year Law Students Exam” consists of two sections — a multiple choice and a written section — that were graded equally. In fact, the scaling methodology used to attempt to normalize the scores against previous sittings of the exam… Continue Reading →
Passing the California First Year Law Students’ Exam, a/k/a The Baby Bar, FYLSX, FYLSE, Your Second Year Nightmare
[Edit 12/8/2017 — Welcome June 2018 FYLSX test takers! It seems CalBar status pages have been updated. If yours wasn’t, you probably didn’t pass. It’s Friday — go out, have a drink or four, and start studying again in a week or two. Tips are above, and, push that Follow button on the right side of… Continue Reading →
Jon Completes Law School: A Review of Four Years at NWCU Law
On Thursday, I took my final exams for my final year of school at Northwestern California University School of Law. Assuming I passed my exams, I now have a law degree making me eligible to take the February 2019 California Bar Examination, which I shall do. If you’ve been following, you know NWCU is a… Continue Reading →
How the California Bar Actually Grades the First Year Law Students’ Exam
I’ve made a few posts discussing California’s First Year Law Students’ Exam (the “FYLSX”), noting that I failed my first attempt by a fraction of a percent when the Bar applied a grading formula different from that which was advertised, and then, using the knowledge gained of their altered grading scheme, passed on my second try so… Continue Reading →
California Bar Posts My Essay as Example of How to Write Exam Answer
I was pretty excited to be tipped off by one of my law school professors that the California Bar’s “Selected Answers” for the last administration of the First Year Law Students’ Exam were posted and that one of them looked familiar. Each sitting of the exam, every student writes 4 essays, and out of the… Continue Reading →
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