Quick Tip: Stay Emotionally Detached
As lawyers, we’re expected to be empathetic. Understanding clients and exercising compassion are at the heart of lawyering. So, it’s natural to want to have your emotions seep into your analysis of bar exam questions, especially multiple-choice questions.
But don’t on the bar exam. Always base your predictions and, ultimately, your answers on the law and the facts. And make sure your answers are firmly grounded in them.
In other words, stay emotionally detached.
Yes, you will reach outcomes that might appear to be unfair, depending on whether you’re pro-plaintiff or pro-defendant. But don’t let that influence how you answer questions.
The test drafters who write bar exam questions likely know how to pull at those emotional heartstrings and so they can draft incorrect answer choices to play on them.
Don't fall for them!
