How To Fail The Bar Exam With Comedic Flair

'Oh no, I failed the bar exam...'

Ed. note: A version of this post was originally published on July 16, 2013. We republish it today as a public service for everyone who will be taking the bar exam this week. Good luck!

The July 2023 bar exam begins tomorrow. Some of you have been studying your asses off since graduation, and some of you... have been procrastinating. In either case, no matter what you do, some of you may fail -- perhaps miserably, or perhaps by just a point or two -- but still, you'll fail. But maybe it's not so bad? Come on, even famous people have failed.

Of course you don't want to fail this test. But you might! So, if you think you're going to fail, perhaps you should start preparing yourself for the worst before the exam.

For a great example of how to shrug off your impending bar exam failure with humor, keep reading. This is going to solve all of your problems.

Knowing how utterly shocked your parents will be that their precious little angel didn't pass the bar exam, why not present them with an even worse failure to soften the blow?

That's exactly what this July 2013 bar examinee did. When he wrote this letter, he hadn't even taken the test yet, but he had already prepared himself in epic fashion for his possible fall from grace. Here's the letter he wrote to his parents:

Failing the bar exam doesn't seem so bad now, does it?

We wish you all the very best of luck on the July 2023 bar exam. Hopefully you won't have to use a letter like this one come November.

Staci Zaretsky is a senior editor at Above the Law, where she's worked since 2011. She'd love to hear from you, so please feel free to email her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on Twitter and Threads or connect with her on LinkedIn.