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These Students Passed the October
Connecticut Bar Examination

By Robert Storace

R Examination hall. Photo: bibiphoto/Shutterstock.com
ishita Jani had no idea how nervous she’d be While it was a stressful year, it was also a joyous one
when she woke up Friday morning preparing for Jani. She got engaged earlier in 2020 and then was
to go online to the state Judicial Branch website one of 270 people who passed the state bar exam.
at 10:15 a.m. to see if she’d passed the Connecticut For Jani, who was also busy as member of Diplo-
bar exam, which was moved from an in-person July ma Privilege for Connecticut, a group that pushed
exam to one held virtually in early October. for diploma privileges in the Nutmeg State, she said,
“I was refreshing the site from 10:10 a.m. onwards,” “I actually did not tell anyone the results were com-
said the 25-year-old University of Connecticut ing out today in case I needed a moment to process
School of Law graduate. “It felt like years, when you it for myself if I didn’t pass. I didn’t want everyone
are counting down the minutes.” asking if I had checked.”
When Jani saw the results were up, she started Like most members of Diploma Privilege for Con-
scrolling for her last name, which was listed alpha- necticut, the Wethersfield resident said she was one
betically, but she stopped at “H.” of the lucky ones, fortunate to have passed the exam;
“I had to take a minute before I scrolled to ‘J’ to of which 67.5% of test takers passed.
get my breath,” she said. “I refreshed when I saw my “Regardless of whether or not I passed, my sen-
name because I did not believe it and I wanted to timents of the bar exam remain the same as when
make sure I was on the right page.”
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