I have a neighbor who is a lawyer and a CPA. He graduated from Ole Miss and for that reason did not even have to take the Mississippi Bar.
He did pass the Florida Bar which he told me is one of the more difficult ones.
I asked him which was more difficult between the Bar and CPA exam and he said the CPA was much tougher.
In the cpa exam you cant fudge math.
I took one page of the CPA exam as a final in my accounting course for my MBA. It was brutal.