Chuck Bryant

Yeah, totally.

Should we wrap up sort of the testing stuff and then take a break?

Yeah, let's get back into the evolution of the test again.

Yeah.

So now we're in the late 80s, 1988.

I'm a junior in high school, still seeking that first kiss.

And the NCBE has added the multistate essay examination at this point.

So now you're back to essaying, which is how it previously had been until that multiple choice test.

Right.

And in 97, it handed over the multistate performance test or the MPT.

which says, hey, let's sort of do like do some practice stuff, like write up a brief for me or write out a memo, draft a memo.

We'll see how you do on that.

And then finally, in 2011, the uniform bar exam or the UBE was adopted by most states where all three of those tests kind of make that one up as one big test.

Yeah, which is, you know, if you're a state and you don't feel like going to the trouble of coming up with your entire, your own bar exam, now you can just use the UBE.

Yeah.

And it's proven, like there's all sorts of great questions in there.

You sacrificed state law.

But a lot of people say like, well, like law students don't need to sit around and memorize state law.

That's a waste of time in favor of the UBE, which is pretty rich because a lot of people argue that the UBE itself is a waste of time because you have to memorize general law rather than state law, which we'll talk more about that.

I just I'm chomping at the bit right now.