Podcast: More details on how the California Bar Exam is graded
BAR EXAM TOOLBOX — Today we’re sharing Part 2 of our conversation with Jennifer Barry — a tutor on the Bar Exam Toolbox team who’s a former California bar exam grader. This time, we’re focusing on avoiding common mistakes that examinees make.
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UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO SCHOOL OF LAW — UB School of Law graduates know how to rally, and the results from July’s New York State Bar Exam confirm it. 87.41 percent of first-time UB Law test takers passed the rigorous exam—an increase of 1.93% from July of 2023.
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COOLEY LAW SCHOOL — Cooley Law School is among seven law schools participating in the research and development of AccessLex Institute’s Building Bar Skills Modules to bridge the gap between standard methods of legal education and future approaches of legal training to prepare law schools for the NextGen bar exam.
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UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA SCHOOL OF LAW — For the 11th consecutive year, University of Georgia School of Law graduates have led the state in the Georgia bar exam passage rate. UGA Law graduates who sat for the July 2024 exam posted the highest rate for first-time takers among the state’s law schools and exceeded the…
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HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY LAW NEWS — Graduates from Hofstra University’s Maurice A. Deane School of Law who took the New York State Bar Exam for the first time in July 2024 achieved an 82% pass rate. This represents Hofstra Law’s best results for first-time takers since 2013 and a 3% increase over last year’s New York…
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REUTERS — New York has joined the growing number of states posting a higher pass rate on the July 2024 bar exam, with 69% of examinees passing its attorney licensing exam.
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REUTERS — The California Supreme Court on Tuesday approved a controversial plan by the state bar to switch to a new lawyer licensing exam that will be delivered both remotely and in-person at test centers starting in February.
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CALIFORNIA COURTS NEWSROOM — The California Supreme Court on Tuesday approved a State Bar of California proposal to provide bar applicants an incentive for a study being held on Nov. 8 and Nov. 9 that will pretest experimental multiple-choice exam questions developed by Kaplan, Inc. Participants in those studies may increase their chances of passing a future…
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BLOOMBERG LAW — Out-of-state applicants will be able to take the California bar exam remotely and at test centers in other states, according to a proposal the state bar approved Friday.
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LAW.COM — The overall pass rate for the July 2024 Texas Bar Exam was 74.5%, reflecting an improvement over the 71% pass rate for the July 2023 exam and the 48.2% pass rate for the February 2024 exam.
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