Alaska's Murkowski failed bar exam 4 times

[Wretched Excess]

attacking republicans makes me queasy, but she has it coming.  couldn't handle the multiple choice part of the exam?  seriously?

I wonder if daddy fixed this for her, too.

Alaska's Murkowski failed bar exam 4 times

It took Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, five attempts to pass the Alaska Bar Exam, a piece of her biography that has gone unreported until now, when she faces a long-shot write-in bid for another term in her Senate seat.

Murkowski, who graduated in 1985 from Willamette University's College of Law in Oregon, wasn't admitted to the Alaska Bar until November 1987.

She flunked the exam in July 1985, February 1986, July 1986 and again in February 1987. She passed on her fifth try in July 1987. Murkowski said that although her failures on the exam aren't something she talks about regularly, she's never hidden them. It's an example of how she "stayed in there," Murkowski said, "and I did not quit."

She said that each time she took the test, she had trouble in particular with the standardized, multiple-choice portion of the exam. After her fourth failure, she and a friend who also struggled with it went to Portland, Ore., to take a preparatory course. During the course, they learned strategies for successfully tackling the standardized portion. Murkowski returned to Alaska and passed the bar exam. She was so impressed with the company that offered the prep course, PMBR, that for several years afterward she was its representative in Alaska.


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[thundley4]

After her fourth failure, she and a friend who also struggled with it went to Portland, Ore., to take a preparatory course. During the course, they learned strategies for successfully tackling the standardized portion.

When in doubt, choose "C". 

[Wretched Excess]

or flip a coin.  that seems to be how she voted in the senate.

[JohnnyReb]

When in doubt, choose "C". 

DUmmie method...A...C...D...C...wink at teacher...D...C...rub leg...A ...C ....and so on.

[true_blood]

DUmmie method...A...C...D...C...wink at teacher...D...C...rub leg...A ...C ....and so on.

[DumbAss Tanker]

She should have just followed the Kennedy approach and paid someone to take it for her.  Of course, after failing it four times, the examiners probably knew her by sight.

Seriously, anyone who actually attended classes can pass the multi-state part (i.e. multiple choice part) of the exam.  If she bombed that four times, she is too damned stupid to be allowed to be Senator.  Detroit city council maybe, but not a Senator.

FWIW my state did not use the multi-state when I sat for it, they used a solid two days of essay questions.  I've taken sample multistates since then out of curiousity, and anyone who can't pass that part on the second try at the latest has no business practicing law or making new laws. 

[JohnnyReb]

She should have just followed the Kennedy approach and paid someone to take it for her.  Of course, after failing it four times, the examiners probably knew her by sight.

Seriously, anyone who actually attended classes can pass the multi-state part (i.e. multiple choice part) of the exam.  If she bombed that four times, she is too damned stupid to be allowed to be Senator.  Detroit city council maybe, but not a Senator.

FWIW my state did not use the multi-state when I sat for it, they used a solid two days of essay questions.  I've taken sample multistates since then out of curiousity, and anyone who can't pass that part on the second try at the latest has no business practicing law or making new laws. 

My first cousin got out of law school and immediately sat for the Bar in 3 states and passed all 3......but she shouldn't hold a senate seat....she's a liberal and was a member? of the ACLU....every family has at least one black sheep.