I'm mainly posting this because about 6 months ago I said I would and I just ran across my PMBR stuff. But also because I doubt I'll ever get sick of bitching about law school.

Our first year classes are supposedly the most important. If you go the traditional route, your first year grades determine your summer jobs, which you're supposed to hope will eventually become post-school employment.

IOW, first year grades are *Really Important*.

The bar exam emphasizes these *Important* 1st-year subjects. However, (and here comes my thesis statement), there is almost no correlation between what's tested on the bar exam and what we learn in law school. To exemplify, below are my first year grades and my PMBR pre-test scores ranked best-->worst. Notice the non-existant correlation.

1L Grades
torts
criminal
property
contracts
constitutional

PMBR Pre-test
contracts
criminal
property
constiutional
torts

And just for fun, let's throw in a comparison of how much I had studied for each class in school.

Studied
constitutional
property
torts
contracts
criminal (to be fair, crim was worth fewer credits, so logically one would study less)

Silly legal education... Oh well, at least it prepared us for actual practice. (HA!!)