You’ve taken the bar exam and are waiting for results. No sweat, right? Wrong! For many students, this time is even more stressful than bar prep itself. Read on for some ideas on how to keep your cool, while waiting (patiently) for results.
Waiting for Bar Results
- The Waiting Game: Bar Exam Results Many bar applicants around the country are still waiting for bar exam results. This can be an incredibly stressful and frustrating time. If you're still waiting, we have some tips for surviving the waiting game and dealing with results day.
- Job Hunting While Waiting for Bar Results It's a nasty job market out there, as we all well know. And if you're waiting for your bar results, you're probably also in the process of looking for a job. What fun, right? We've got some suggestions for job hunting when you aren’t yet a licensed attorney.
- What are You Doing Post-Bar Exam? Low-Cost Ideas to Get Your Life Back! After you take the bar, you probably want to go half a world away from anything relating to the test - literally. For those of you who are anxiously awaiting results and trying not to spend much money these days, here are a few ideas about how to spend time post-bar exam.
- More Reasons to Study for the Bar Exam While Waiting for Results Read the next post in our series on whether to study for the bar exam while waiting for results. In this post we offer three more scenarios to help you decide whether to start studying sooner rather than later!
- To Study or Not to Study? When Waiting for Bar Results, That is the Question You finished the bar exam, but you can't help but wonder: did I study hard enough? Will I pass? These thoughts are normal, but they might have you debating whether or not to unearth your outlines and begin anew. In this first of two posts, we offer a few scenarios that may describe how you’re feeling post-bar exam.
- How to Wait for Bar Results on Friday The days are ticking away and bar results are slowly being released. The last few days of waiting are incredibly nerve wracking and most students are wondering how they're going to get through the final days and hours. In this post we offer some advice to help you manage.
- Bar Exam Toolbox Experts Share: Ways to Decompress After the Bar Exam Congratulations, you did it! You survived the bar exam. In this post, the Bar Exam Toolbox experts share some thoughts on how to relax, decompress and enjoy your time after the bar exam.
- Eliminating Stress When Studying for the Bar (and Waiting for Bar Results) Have you ever talked to yourself? It turns out that self-talk is a key step in managing stress. So if you’re taking the bar or waiting for results, you're probably talking to yourself a lot! In this post we share tips to make that self-talk more productive.
- What to Do While Waiting for Bar Results Many students find that waiting for bar results is actually more difficult than studying for the bar. Why? The stress and doubt over their performance is enough to keep them up an night! In this post we discuss what you should be doing while waiting for those results.
- Bar Results Recap: It's Been a Tough Season, but Bar Passage Remains an Attainable Goal Drops in bar exam passage rates this season are all across the headlines nowadays. The media is pushing the message that the bar is getting harder and the students are getting less qualified. But is this really true? In this post we discuss what the recent drops in passage rates mean for you.
- Do's and Don'ts For Waiting For Bar Exam Results Thank goodness, you have finally completed the bar exam! What should you do now? Read our do's and don'ts here.
- The Waiting Game: 5 Things to Do While Waiting For Your Bar Exam Results You know what they say: the waiting is always the hardest part. In this post we give some suggestions of what can you do to get through the waiting game.
- Waiting for Bar Results? How to Keep the Bar Exam in Perspective Does it seem like your entire future hinges on your bar exam results? Well, guess what: it doesn't! Read our tips on how to keep everything in perspective while waiting for your results.
- Managing Bar Exam Results Season Results Season is an impactful time. We have some tips on how to manage this time where you wait for your bar results to come in.
- Waiting for Bar Exam Results: A Day-by-Day Guide About a month after you take the bar exam something happens: the glee of not having to study begins to fade, the celebratory post-exam vacation comes to an end, and the harsh reality that exam results will be released soon starts to set in. Here are some suggestions to help you prepare for the big day while you are waiting for bar exam results.
- Still Thinking About the Bar Exam? 5 Tips to Help You Decompress For better or worse, the bar exam is finally over! It’s normal to have a little anxiety about how it all went, but after spending so much time and focus preparing for the test, you may find it difficult to get your mind off of the bar exam. Now that the test is over and there’s nothing you can do to change your answers, it’s important to live in the present so that you aren’t constantly worrying about what you could have done differently or whether your name will be on the pass list. Use the following strategies to help you decompress and control your anxiety about the results.
- Did You Just Finish the Bar? Wondering What's Next? You did it! You finished your bar exam… but now what? What do you do with all your free time? What do you do if you don’t have to study? How do you go back to being a normal person?
- So You Just Finished the Bar Exam And ... You're Worried About Your Score In the first part of this series, we focused on ways to look forward and move on after the bar exam. You need to get back your life! But, we are realistic, and we know that worry about your bar results will creep into your mind. In this post, we give our advice on how to handle that.
- How to Stay Sane While Waiting for Bar Exam Results The next few weeks or months after the bar exam, while you’re waiting for the results, can be a bit challenging. But, you will get through it! Here are the tips on how to do it and maintain a healthy attitude.
- 25 Ways to Distract Yourself From Bar Results Even after you've finished your bar studying, and taken the exam, the next step can be tough - waiting for results! We offer 25 ways that you can distract yourself so you aren't curled up in a ball obsessing over your score.
- Now What? Channeling Post-Bar Energy Effectively Decompressing from the uniquely exhausting experience of preparing for and taking the bar is tricky. We discuss how to channel this energy effectively for what's next!
- 5 Things To Do After Finishing the Bar Exam You finished the bar exam. Take a deep breath and savor the feeling of completing what will hopefully be the last test you ever take. After devoting countless hours, days, and weeks to bar prep, you may also be wondering what you’re supposed to do with all of your free time now that you don’t need to study. With the exam over and done, it’s time to step out of the bar exam bubble and re-enter the real world, but what should you do first? Here a few suggestion of some things you may want to accomplish as you wait for results over the next few weeks.
- Mental Health and the Bar: Tips To Maintain Good Mental Health Post Bar Exam and Beyond If you've just finished the bar exam, unfortunately, these factors can certainly bring up some mental health issues, regardless of a predisposition or an overall stable state of mind. Therefore, developing and maintaining good mental health practices is crucial, especially during this starting point of your career.
- Post Bar Trips on a Budget If you recently sat for the bar exam, you may be entering the time of the coveted "post bar trip." We're looking at some options for trips on a budget or alternative ideas to get away after this stressful bar exam time.
- How to Handle the Waiting Period for Bar Results There’s no question that life in the immediate aftermath of the bar exam is exponentially better than life before the bar exam, but unfortunately, you’ve still got to endure the months-long wait for your results, which is its own special kind of torture. While it will depend in part on what your individual circumstances are, below are a few suggestions on passing the time.
- You're Done With the Bar! Now Is the Time to Relax The bar exam was a challenge, but it’s over now. So here’s your challenge now: relax. You need to slow down, decompress, and focus on living a healthy, happy life. Even if you’re looking for work, you have to take some time to chill out and to get back to being the best you. Here are some ideas how.
- Three Practical Things to Do After the Bar Exam is Over In the midst of studying for the bar exam surrounded by notes and outlines and flashcards and practice questions it can seem like studying will never end. But trust me, there will come a time when all that studying comes to a screeching, sudden halt. And then what? Well, there is a lot you can do!
- What to Do With the Break Between the Bar Exam and Starting Your Job Hopefully you have some time off between the crazy endeavor of taking the bar exam and starting your job. If you don’t, no worries. Keep breathing and jump right into your new career! This is what it was all for. We're looking at what to do with some time before you start to work after taking a bar exam.
- Post Bar Exam Depression - Join the Club As you transition between completing the bar and waiting for results, consider the mental gymnastics and emotional rollercoaster that you just involuntarily signed up to get on.
- You Finished the Bar Exam, Now What? We're talking about what you can do in the time waiting for your bar results - after the exam is finally done!
- Bar Exam Perspective - How to Get Through the Waiting Period How can you keep yourself sane after you take the bar exam and are waiting for results? We have advice!
- Post-Grad Perspective - Bar Prep to Office Life We're hearing from one recent bar taker about her transition to working life.
- 10 Things to Do After the Bar Exam Here are ten things for you to do after you take the bar exam.
- After Bar Exam Trips: What are They and My Take on Them These trips have become known as “after bar” or “post-bar” trips. In order to help you understand what bar exam trips are, we are answering some questions about them and providing a stance on whether you should take one.
- Professional Development While Waiting for Bar Results We're offering up some ideas for professional development activities to participate in while waiting for bar exam results.
- Exploring the Possibilities Post Bar Exam This article offers some paths you can explore so this period after the bar exam feels less like limbo and more like hopeful possibility.
- Alternatives to a Post-Bar Trip If you're not able or not interested in planning a big post bar trip, we're thinking creatively about some other ideas for using that time after the bar exam but before you start working.
- Bar Exam Perspective - I Finished the Bar Exam, Now What? Here is some advice to help you through the post-bar exam life.
- Productively Waiting for Bar Scores We're talking about how to get through the long waiting game after the bar exam is done!
- Just Took the Bar Exam? Why You Shouldn't Obsess Over Results Here are a few tips to help keep those overwhelming thoughts about bar exam results at bay.
- Applying to Jobs without a Law License If you are experiencing uncertainty around job-seeking while you wait for your scores, then here are some tips for applying to positions when you are not yet licensed.
- When Your Job Hinges on Bar Results Here are some tips for dealing with the pressure from an employer to pass the bar.
- Why You Should Treat Yourself After the Bar Exam (and How to Do It) aAfter the exam is over, it’s so important to take a break, rest, and reset, and we're offering some suggestions.
Best of luck!
