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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: thf2@kimbark.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank)
Subject: Re: don't help a dying man during the bar exam
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 1994 03:30:11 GMT

>> [ guy at bar exam has heart attack - other test taker gives CPR and is
>> then screwed by Exam Officials]

For the n-th time:

• Happened in the summer of 1993 in California
• Original "scandal" was that "only" two people stopped to help the guy -- as if a hundred people jumping up would be more, rather than less, helpful
• The proctors, who are invariably laypeople with no authority whatsoever, *could not* give the helpful people more time on the test; to do so would have disqualified their exams immediately. They did the right thing in refusing to give more time.
• The California bar took the policy "Let's see if these people pass, and then we'll worry about whether what sort of adjustment we'll give in scoring their tests."
• The two good Samaritans appeared on some talk shows, and graciously debunked a lot of the nonsense about how horrible everyone else was being.
• The two passed the bar, without any adjustment to their tests.

My attitude is, if you can't pass the bar without a half hour to spare, you're better off in some other profession any way.

On the other hand, I haven't passed yet...