I'm wondering if I should continue studying. I'm not crazy. I'm not. I've just entered the worried stage now, especially b/c I've seen what GP wrote on his essays. Will I be the biggest loser ever if I have to retake this damn test for the 3rd time? In my mind, the answer is yes.
Dammit.
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I know. I read GP's blog (WHY would I do that to myself?!?!) and was in a bad mood the rest of the night. I wanted to cry. I walked out of the test feeling pretty decent about life, and now I feel depressed. I'm trying not to think about it, but I'm hating my job (yesterday was just my first day back in 3wks) and more than ever I want that ESQ. let's just keep our fingers crossed and think happy thoughts :) (and stop reading posts that rehash the exam!)
hello! no, you're not crazy! if the pass rate for feb wasn't so abysmal i might be more optimistic, but i've got to face facts. i too read GP's blog and while i hit most of the same issues, my essays were NOT organized. i had a big time issue this go around and i was frantic trying to get everything on paper w/ no headings, cohesion, rhyme or reason.
i just decided that i was going to start studying again. nothing heavy, a subject a day until may.
I thought about starting to study after the summer bar- just in case. I never really started studying because I really thought I would pass. I'm glad I didn't. It was hard enough getting back into full-time study mode that I am sure I would have been burnt out if I had tried to study more. I think I will try to enjoy this time so that if I do have to do it again, I will be able to jump right in.
wow!
and here i was, thinking i was alone.
part of me wants to keep studying.
one hour a day flipping through cards for 2 or 3 subjects is not a lot, and it will keep it fresh in my mind.
on the other hand, i don't want to give the bar any more of my time.
BUT then again, i do not want to take the bar a fourth time.
*sigh*
:(
I keep saying I should review once a week also, just in case.
But don't look at other people's answers as guideposts. When I took it the first time I freaked out a couple friends cuz I had stuff they didn't, and they passed and I didn't.
Also, I was listening to this older guy taking it in Ontario who was a grader in another state and said that he always gave the highest grades to people with the least amount of issues because he would be too tired to read long essays!
So chin up! Hopefully we all passed!!!!
don't psyche yourself out!!
put it out of your mind -- enjoy the weather -- enjoy the sun -- go shopping! don't you dare start studying!!
at least give it a month! unwind and relax. that post by gp made us ALL freak out. but we're only now in our second week away from the bar, and we just really need to distract ourselves -- 'cause it's still such a long way until the results come out!
hang in there, everyone!
I hit nearly all the issues GP mentioned, but his blog still freaked me out simply because it got me thinking about where I might have gone wrong and what I could have analyzed harder. His blog sent me into a tailspin with trying to read every other blog, forum, comment and website related to the Feb '08 California bar to assure myself that I might be okay.
So I'm not studying. I'm being way less productive and focusing all my energy on second guessing my answers and trying to rationalize everything in my head.
This is agony.
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