Why the Bar?

After this experience is finally over, I wonder if I will ever be able to hear the word bar again and think of a beer instead of a test. A bar is supposed to be a place you go to get a cold drink after a hard day of work, not a life altering testing event jammed in over three days. Nurses have boards, and other professions have licensing and certification examinations, but only lawyers take the bar. Maybe it is a recommendation of where to go after the test is over?