I Passed

It was bad enough that the Virginia Board of Bar Examiners announced they would post the July bar exam results online on Yom Kippur, likely forcing observant Jews to choose between attending services and rapidly hitting the refresh button like the rest of us . But to wait until 1:15pm to actually post those results, when they just had to know everyone would start checking at dawn... well that was just cruel (not to mention the fact that as I write this, the list only goes through last names starting with S. I'd be really mad if my name came after that).

Anyhow, I passed. Huzzah. Alas, the girl who sat next to me did not. Nor did 403 others out of the 1,367 who took it, for a rather low passage rate of 70.4%.

UPDATE: A friend emailed to ask whether 70% is really all that low, especially since it includes people who are re-taking the exam (and are much more likely to fail than first-time takers). The answer is no, 70% is not all that low relative to other states or to Virginia historically. It is rather low, however, compared to any other testing situation I have ever been in. It is just hard for me to grasp that of all those people sitting around me in July, three out every ten did not pass.