“Actually, having taken the bar (and yes, passed the first time) and having first hand knowledge of how extremely difficult a test it is, I would say that it’s not unheard of for a smart person to have to take the bar multiple times to pass. It IS unheard of for a smart person to take seven years to complete college if they are going full-time.”
Oh yea. If you are working your way through school, it can take that long. Or if you change majors, it can take that long. How many years you spend in college has nothing to do with your intelligence. But going through three years of law school and probably multiple bar review courses and still failing it FOUR times shows a serious intellectual deficit. Lisa Murkowski is a dim bulb. Those are the facts.
Failing the bar exam once is a disgrace and would be embarrassing. Anyone who takes a bar review course and studies reasonably hard should be able to pass it on the first try.
By the way, bringing Sarah Palin into the equation tell everyone what your agenda is.
Also, no one really cares that you say you passed the bar exam on the first try. No one on this board is comparing resumes with you. The New York State Bar is only two days and has a pass rate in the 80s among first time takers. It is far from the toughest bar exam the country. Try taking a bar exam that lasts three days or better yet, try taking (and passing) one that lasts three CONSECUTIVE days where the pass rate is 39% (without the bar review course) and then come back and give us your expert opinion on what a difficult test it is.
I didn’t bring Sarah Palin into the equation; the poster to whom I was responding did. In my response, I TOOK SARAH PALIN’S SIDE — I said I doubted Sarah Palin actually spent 7 years in full-time study. (And I just looked it up — she did NOT study full-time for 7 years. She studied for 8 semesters, which equals the normal time to graduate — 4 years of full time, study. The only oddity is that she did it at 4 different colleges)
And if you were as great at reading comprehension as you are at tossing insults, you would have noticed that I said FULL-TIME study. The vast majority of those who are working their way through school, which I assume includes Sarah Palin, generally do not study FULL-TIME, for which colleges usually require a minimum of 12 to 15 credits per semester and 2 full-time semesters per year.
So I stand by my statement. If it takes someone 7 years to get through college while studying FULL-TIME, that means they have failed or withdrawn from enough classes to comprise three full years of full-time study (or, mathematically, failed nearly half of their classes), which, given what goes on in American colleges today, makes someone pretty damn dumb.