Protecting Your Mental Health Waiting For Bar Exam Results

Waiting for bar exam results is a difficult stretch of time for a number of reasons. The months in between taking the bar exam and receiving results are filled with anxiety, dread, stress, and uncertainty. The ability to immediately pursue a legal career is essentially dangling in front of peoples’ faces for months. Bar exam results can mean one is either eligible to practice law or one has to continue their studies by working to pass the bar exam again. For many applicants, the waiting period that follows the bar exam can result in mental health challenges. Constant levels of anxiety and stress over whether an applicant passed or failed the bar exam can impact someone’s daily quality of life. If you’re feeling weighed down by the constant thought of bar exam results, this is normal!. Thousands of applicants caught in bar exam limbo feel this way! Here are some of our favorite tips to help protect your mental health while waiting on the results from the bar exam.

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Is Failing the Bar Exam the End of My Legal Career?

If you’re wondering if failing the bar exam is the end of your legal career, we’ve got a simple answer: no! Many successful attorneys fail the bar exam and then go on to have successful legal careers. This list includes former presidents (Franklin D. Roosevelt), former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (she passed the Arkansas bar, but was never able to pass the D.C. bar exam), former First Lady Michelle Obama, and many other highly successful individuals. To help you follow in their footsteps, we’ve put together this list of steps to take after failing the bar exam.

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Mental Struggles After Bar Exam Failure

With many states recently releasing bar exam results, some applicants are relieved that they passed while others are devastated when they find out they failed. For those of you who didn’t get the news you were hoping for, we want to assure you that you are not alone! Thousands of attorneys go on to have successful and fulfilling careers after passing the bar exam, even if they failed one (or more!) times before passing. We’re here to tell you that retaking and passing the bar exam is doable. In this post, we touch on how to handle the mental struggle after failing the bar exam.

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Why You Failed The Bar Exam: 5 Common Reasons

If you recently received the unfortunate news that you did not pass the bar exam, you may be wondering what exactly went wrong.  After putting in months of studying, it can often be difficult to understand why you did not achieve the results you worked so hard for.  Studying for the bar exam is much different from studying for law school, and it can often be hard to know what you should be doing and how you should be spending your time when you are studying for the bar exam.  In this post, we will go over some of the common mistakes that students make that lead them to fail the bar exam.

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I Can’t Pass the Bar Exam, What Should I Do?

If you can’t pass the bar exam on your first (or second, or third) take, you’re not alone. The bar exam is notoriously difficult, and many test-takers require multiple attempts before they pass. If you feel like you’ve tried everything but you can’t pass the bar exam, this post is for you! We’ve come up with five steps that can help you cope with failing the bar and prepare you to pass in the future.

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