A Complete Guide To Studying For The Bar Exam (In GIF Form)

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Flickr / Philip Larson

It’s Bar Exam Season. For those not familiar, that means that law students across the nation are currently in the midst of studying all day every day for a total of 10 weeks before they take a 2-3 day long exam at the end of July. If you or someone you know is one of these afflicted people, may the force be with you.

1. Bar Prep Starting The Week After Graduation

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2. First Week of Bar Prep

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3. A Few Weeks Into Bar Prep

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4. After Your First Few Assessments and Practice Sets

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5. When Your Lecturer Makes Pop Culture References

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6. Torts Essays Got You Like

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7. Just When You Think You Know Something, Barbri’s Like:

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8. When You Take A Practice Question Sets and Keep Failing

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9. When People Think You Have Free Time to Hang Out

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10. Trying to Fight The Monotony of Studying 8-10 Hours A Day Every Single Day For 10 Weeks

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11. When You Go On Social Media and Everyone’s Posting Pictures at the Beach /Generally Enjoying Summer/Life/Not This Hell

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12. When You Get A Graded Essay Back

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13. When People Ask You How You Feel About The Bar Exam Coming Up

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14. This is a Semi-Regular Conversation Between You and Your Significant Other (Well Anyone Really)

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15. Anxiety-Induced Insomnia

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16. When You Miss Something Obvious on Essays

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17. When Someone Asks You A Simple Question After You’ve Just Studied All Day

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18. When Little Things People Do Set You Off

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19. When You Completely Stop Answering Text Messages

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20. Talking To Anyone Not Studying For the Bar Right Now

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21. When You Get To Topics You Nailed in Law School

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22. Legal Puns in Lectures

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23. Deciding Between 2 Answers on a Multiple Choice Question

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24. When You Forget State Distinctions In an Essay

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25. When It’s Week 6 and You Still Fail Practice Question Sets

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26. What Day Of The Week Is It Again?

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27. Trying to Memorize Everything Knowing Most of It Won’t Be Tested

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28. July

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29. At Least Once

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30. Hopefully Not In Public?

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31. Everyone’s Snapchats Be Like

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32. Feeling Like This Every Day

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33. What You Keep Telling Yourself

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34. When You Realize You’ve Gotten Yourself This Far

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35. When You Think About What You’ll Do When The Bar Is Over

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36. But Really, The Best Thing Anyone Can Say You To Right Now Thought Catalog Logo Mark

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