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KIM Kardashian broke down in tears and sobbed in the days leading up to her law exam.

The reality TV star, 45, finally took the California bar after seven years of studying but she was ultimately unsuccessful.

It was revealed earlier this month that she hadn’t passed but Kim has remained determined to try again in the hopes of qualifying as a practising lawyer.

Now, the All’s Fair actress has shared an intimate look at her two weeks leading up to the exam in which she shunned all other work commitments to focus on her studies.

The nine-minute social media vlog features an emotional scene in which a bare-faced Kim can be seen sobbing in bed after a long day of studying for her exam.

Heavily emotional, Kim spoke to the camera as she opened up about her law journey difficulties.

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Kim said: “F***, I’m gonna film this because oh my god I am just so tired.

“It is like every time I feel like I am a step ahead, something happens to try and stop me from doing this.

“A part of me just wants to stop.

“I feel like my brain is going to explode and i still have so much more to go.”

Whilst Kim didn’t expand on what was stopping her from studying, she was clearly suffering with problems relating to her back during the two-week period the video was filmed.

She confirmed her back had “given out” and was causing her pain.

Kim wore a large back brace throughout most of the clips in the video in order to help with the pain.

She also revealed she had undergone an MRI scan which confirmed she was dealing with some issues relating to the discs in her back.

Despite her initial worries, she admitted she was feeling confident the day before the exam and was looking forward to taking on the challenge.

The news that Kim hadn’t passed the bar exam came at the same time as her hotly-anticipated legal drama, in which she plays a lawyer, Allura Grant, premiered across the world.

Kim leads the show alongside a cast of stars including Glenn Close, Sarah Paulson, Naomi Watts and Nicey Nash.

The 45-year-old started her journey in 2018 and has frequently spoken about wanting to work in the legal profession like her father Robert Sr. 

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Confirming the news earlier this month, the billionaire said: “Well… I’m not a lawyer yet, I just play a very well-dressed one on TV.

“Six years into this law journey, and I’m still all in until I pass the bar. No shortcuts, no giving up – just more studying and even more determination.”

The annual college entrance exam was held nationwide Thursday with the largest number of applicants in seven years due in part to an unusually high birth rate in 2007.

The College Scholastic Ability Test (CSAT), seen as one of the nation’s most important academic events, began at 1,310 test centers across the country at 8:40 a.m. and is set to end at 5:45 p.m.

Test-takers arrived at designated centers amid cheers from their juniors, parents and teachers. Police officers were deployed nationwide to help transport students and, in some cases, bring them their lunch boxes from home. And students residing on small islands had traveled to the mainland beforehand as no test centers were set up on islets.

A total of 554,174 people have applied for this year’s exam, up 31,504, or 6 percent, from last year and the highest figure since 2018, according to the education ministry.

High school seniors and graduates account for 67.1 percent and 28.9 percent of the total, respectively, it said.

Outside a high school in Cheongju, about 110 kilometers south of Seoul, 21-year-old Shin Ju-won, a student at Chungbuk National University, joined a cheering squad.

“We were cheered on when we took the exam, so we want to repay our juniors,” Shin said. “They’re probably very nervous, but I hope they do well.”

Competition for admission to top colleges is expected to be fierce due to the large number of test-takers and the government’s backtracking on a medical school quota increase.

Last year, the quota was increased by 1,497 slots to 4,610 under former President Yoon Suk Yeol’s policy to address a shortage of doctors.

The plan backfired, however, forcing a return to the previous level of 3,123 seats.

Meanwhile, the number of test-takers is up in part because most people born in 2007, the year of the auspicious Golden Pig that saw an unusually high birth rate, are now in their third year of high school.

In Jeonju, some 200 km south of Seoul, a mother quietly wiped away tears as she watched her daughter enter a test center.

“I’m just thankful to my daughter that she studied for over 10 years to take this exam,” she said, giving her last name as Kang. “I just want her to perform as usual without aiming too high.”

The CSAT is the culmination of years of grueling studies for many students, and the government makes every effort to cater to their needs on exam day.

All aircraft takeoffs and landings across the country will be banned from 1:05 p.m. to 1:40 p.m. to minimize noise during the English listening portion of the exam.

Aircraft in flight, excluding those in emergency situations, must remain in the air at an altitude of 3 kilometers or higher under the direction of air traffic control authorities.

In Seoul, the subway service was increased by 29 runs, mostly between 6 a.m. and 10 a.m., to help students get to their test centers on time.

Stock markets, which are typically open from 9 a.m. until 3:30 p.m., opened one hour later to ease morning rush-hour traffic and will close one hour later.

The exam answers will be finalized and announced at 5 p.m. on Nov. 25 before report cards are distributed to test-takers on Dec. 5.

KIM Kardashian refuses to throw in the book as she returns to studying, after fuming that psychics incorrectly predicted she would pass her exam to qualify as a lawyer.

The billionaire entrepreneur and reality star, 45, posing in a bikini while revising with a textbook, failed her California bar exam after six years of studying.

In a TikTok video, she ranted to her famous family that their clairvoyants were “liars.”

She said: “I’m just letting you guys know that all of the f***ing psychics that we have met with, and that we’re obsessed with, are all f***ing full of s**t.

“They all collectively, maybe four of them, have told me I was going to pass the bar so they’re all full pathological liars. Don’t believe anything they say.”

It comes after her Disney+ drama All’s Fair, about a group of female lawyers, was critically panned and received a four percent rating on review-aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes.

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However, The U.S. Sun revealed how this took a drastic turn late Tuesday night heading into Wednesday, when reviews labeling the show the “worst of all time” began going viral.

“The show had a disappointing opening in the first 24 hours. 

“It wasn’t getting as much attention leading up because the media review embargoes weren’t allowed to go up until after the show had already dropped,” the source explained. 

“So all the 0% reviews came out at once, after the episode was already out, and helped draw droves of attention to it. 

“The reaction to all the bad reviews was the best thing that could’ve happened to the show. It basically, right away, doubled overall episode engagement. 

“Including viewership but also the amount of online mentions and social media activity.”

The insider added that producers are taking the critique well, as they know the show is meant to be “campy and fun” and is “not meant to be serious.” 

“No one likes their work being dunked on, but the show welcomes the chatter because it’s driving interest and the viewership is benefiting exponentially,” they added. 

Kim stars on the legal drama as a divorce attorney at an all-female law firm.

In addition to The Kardashians star, the series also includes Naomi Watts, Niecy Nash, Sarah Paulson, and Glenn Close.

Kim Kardashian won’t be arguing cases just yet.

The reality-TV star and billionaire entrepreneur revealed Saturday that she missed the mark on California’s bar exam but promised to keep studying until she passes.

“Well… I’m not a lawyer yet, I just play a very well-dressed one on TV,” Kardashian wrote on Instagram. “Six years into this law journey, and I’m still all in until I pass the bar. No shortcuts, no giving up — just more studying and even more determination.”

The 45-year-old Kardashian said she came “so close” this time and called the result “fuel” for her next try. “I was so close to passing the exam and that only motivated me even more. Let’s go!”

Kardashian had sounded hopeful about her prospects of passing the mandatory legal exam during an October appearance on Britain’s “The Graham Norton Show.” While promoting Ryan Murphy’s series “All’s Fair,” in which she stars as a divorce attorney, she said she was confident she would soon be a “qualified lawyer.”

Kardashian is attempting to follow in the footsteps of her father, Robert Kardashian. The late attorney, who shares Kim, Khloé, Kourtney and Rob Jr. with Kris Jenner, famously was part of the “Dream Team” that represented O.J. Simpson during his murder trial in 1995. Simpson was accused of killing ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and friend Ron Goldman on June 12, 1994. He was acquitted.

In an April 2019 Vogue interview, the “Keeping Up With the Kardashians” star and mother of four publicized her summer 2018 decision to study the law after championing the case of former prisoner Alice Marie Johnson, who had been imprisoned for life plus 25 years for a nonviolent drug offense. President Trump commuted Johnson’s sentence in 2018 at the urging of Kardashian and others and pardoned the great-grandmother two years later.

Over the years, Kardashian has been working with attorneys Van Jones and Jessica Jackson, who sponsored her studies. Instead of attending law school, Kardashian planned to pursue a four-year apprenticeship with a law firm in San Francisco and then take the bar in 2022.

After COVID pandemic-induced delays, Kardashian passed the “baby bar” exam in December 2021 after several attempts. In May, she passed the Multistate Professional Responsibility Exam, required before a person attempts to pass a bar exam in the United States.

Days before sharing her bar exam results, Kardashian said she used artificial intelligence to bolster her law studies. “Do you consider ChatGPT to be a friend?,” “All’s Fair” co-star Teyana Taylor asked the reality star during their Vanity Fair lie detector appearance.

“I use it for legal advice. So when I am needing to know the answer to a question, I’ll take a picture and snap it and put it in there,” Kardashian replied.

“So you’re cheating?” Taylor responded.

“They’re always wrong. It has made me fail tests.”

While Kardashian’s professional law career has yet to take off in real life, she is currently portraying a power player of an attorney on the small screen. In Murphy’s “All’s Fair,” Kardashian stars as the co-founder of an all-female firm with Sarah Paulson, Naomi Watts, Niecy Nash and Taylor as her cohorts.