>>Arkansas is supposed to have a tough bar examination
Not really. At least, not 20 or so years ago. Arkansas was a place where people who sold multistate test prep questions would go to take the exam solely to find out what questions were being asked. They went there because it was fairly easy to pass the Arkansas bar exam without knowing a lick of Arkansas law — just do reasonably well enough on the multi-state to overcome any deficiencies in state law knowledge.
To be fair, that COULD happen in many states but the 4 different PMBR instructors I had all took the Arkansas bar exam and passed it.
Thanks fir the info. For whatever it may be worth, here’s a study which claims Arkansas has the second- most difficult bar exam in USA. I don’t personally know anything about it. http://abovethelaw.com/2013/04/which-state-has-the-most-difficult-bar-exam/