When is the best time to sit for the bar exam? For most people the answer is the same: immediately after graduating from law school.

In my opinion, law students waste too much time and energy worrying about their state’s bar passage rates.

Your state’s overall pass average for a particular exam is not the biggest predictor of individual success.

When you first applied to law schools and sat down to budget your funds for tuition, books, etc., you may not have realized that after leveraging yourself to the hilt, you were going to need to cough up even more money after graduation for something called the bar exam. Don’t feel bad. Most students fail to account for how they will pay for their bar exam expenses.