Few things kill the high of walking across the stage with your diploma quite like the realization law school isn’t really over. If you really want to activate that six figure napkin in your hand, you generally have to buckle in for a prep course so you can pass the bar. But what if that downer was actually a come up? Somebody has to test drive the new bar exam — you could get paid handsomely to do it. From Reuters:
The National Conference of Bar Examiners is offering law grads $1,500 to test-drive the first full-length prototype of its NextGen Bar exam — the revamped version of the bar exam that’s set to debut in July 2026. The organization is seeking about 2,200 of the 46,000 people who are taking the 2024 bar exam this week to participate in a trial run of the new exam in October.
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The new test takes nine hours: six on the first day and three on the second.
I’lll save you the time it takes to open the calculator app on your phone: $1,500 for 9 hours of work comes to about $165 an hour. Prorated annually, that comes out to being $343,200 — a taste of what may come if you pass the bar and stick to Biglaw.
If you want in on the opportunity, the sign up period runs from August 19th to August 29th. Happy testing!
Bar Exam Officials Offer Law Grads $1,500 To Beta Test Revised Exam [Reuters]
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