My understanding of the story was that he was not going to be able to pass the bar because of his plans to try and get out of his debt by ways other than paying

My understanding of the story was that he was not going to be able to pass the bar because of his plans to try and get out of his debt by ways other than paying it back, even though he assumed he would pass the bar? Might be wrong, it was a bit hard to dig through the outraged writing.