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Kim Kardashian’s dreams of becoming a lawyer may be shattered. The entrepreneur and law student has revealed that she did not pass her first year law exam, or the “baby bar” as she has been calling the test.
Fans watched Kim take the test remotely on an earlier episode of Keeping Up With the Kardashians this season, and in a trailer for an upcoming episode, the mother of four announces that she did not pass the test.
Because Kim does not have an undergraduate degree, she is on a specific type of law school tract that the state of California offers. With this system, she is required to pass a bar exam after each year of law school in order to remain in the program.
Law school typically takes three years, and all lawyers must pass the bar exam after graduation in order to practice law in their respective states.
"If you are doing law school the way I'm doing it, it is a four-year program instead of your typical three-year program," Kim explained on KUWTK. "And after year one, you have to take the baby bar. This would actually be harder, I hear, than the official bar."
Kim needed to get a score of at least 560 to pass the exam, and she unfortunately only got a 474 on her first attempt.
It is clear that Kim is passionate about becoming a lawyer. She has shared her opinions on legal matters on social media, and is eager to use her future law degree to help people, particularly those who have been wrongly incarcerated.
Recently, the reality TV star shared her heartbreak surrounding a recent Supreme Court ruling. She shared how this ruling affects people and steps that can be taken to change the situation.
It isn’t clear yet if Kim decided to take the baby bar exam again. On the show, she explained that there was another opportunity to take the test, but she wasn’t sure if it was the right thing to do as she had already been dedicating 10 to 12 hours a day to studying and didn’t know if she could keep that routine up.
"That's what pisses me off," she said, "The fact that I spent all that time away from my kids, like I can't do it again. I don't have time… And I'm filming the ending of our show, which will be so emotional. I have every birthday under the sun, you know, it's my birthday—my 40th—I planned this whole trip and it's too late to cancel. And if I fail again, it's like, what's the point?"
