Apparently it’s not as easy as the Arkansas Bar Exam was in the 70’s.
I don't know anything about the Arkansas Bar Exam. The D.C. Bar Exam was easy because most law schools concentrate on teaching the federal rules and federal procedure, which are, for the most part, easy to grasp, logical, and well organized. D.C. mirrors the federal system almost perfectly, so you have been over it for three years before taking the exam. States east of the Mississippi, at least at that time, were a scrambled blend of common law pleading, arcane rules and procedural statures, and what-not left over from colonial times and reconstruction. Very little of that was logical, easy to grasp, or well organized. In fact, it was pretty much the opposite. The Virginia Bar Exam, which I also took at that time, and passed the first time, was much, much harder.