[Half Vast Conspiracy]

Well...he's too stupid to pass the test, but he behaves like a lawyer already.

Study and pass the test Mr. Dunne.

[LongTimeMILurker]

Tests like the Bar Exam, and any professional licensing exam for that matter, are subject to a lot of abuse of this type. If for example, a board thinks that too many professionals may be licensed in a particular state. they can use essay and “practical” type questions so difficult that few will pass them. Often they are useless exercises as this Question #4 is, testing philosophy or politics and not professional knowledge. To label such candidates stupid is simply wrong. “Stupid” is better tested by such tests as the SAT, GRE, LSAT, and MCAT. Even those have been corrupted by essay questions that do not really test intelligence. I would rely solely on objective tests with nonpolitical questions when assessing “stupid” or “smart”. One would hope that this one question would not be the difference between passing and not passing, though.