California Supreme Court allows retroactive bar admission with supervised practice amid pass score changes
ABA JOURNAL — People who previously flunked the California bar exam but would have passed under a recently changed cut score can now obtain law licenses if they complete 300 hours of supervised practice. The change applies to test-takers between July 2015 and February 2020, who scored between 1390 and 1439 on the exam.
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ABA JOURNAL — Recommendations for bar exam changes, including new types of questions and the evaluation of options for computer-delivered tests with in-person proctoring, were adopted Thursday by the National Conference of Bar Examiners’ board of trustees. Implementation is expected to take four to five years.
Read More about NCBE adopts series of bar exam recommendationsTips for law students preparing for the bar exam
ABA FOR LAW STUDENTS — After graduation, future esquires are focused on one final milestone: passing their state’s bar exam. Studying for the bar exam can be stressful and overwhelming. The key to managing these feelings is to have a plan in place to guide exam preparation. Indeed, there is no single right way to prepare.
Read More about Tips for law students preparing for the bar examSouth Carolina announces February bar exam to be administered in-person
THE POST AND COURIER — The winter bar exam will continue as scheduled Feb. 23-24, the S.C. Judicial Branch announced, with applicants required to attend in person. Authorities said they’ll have similar safety measures in place to those used in July but didn’t detail the precautions. They’re also considering stricter requirements.
Read More about South Carolina announces February bar exam to be administered in-personNational Conference of Bar Examiners task force releases recommendations to improve the bar exam
ABA JOURNAL — Bar exams of the future should be delivered online as an integrated test with scenarios to answer questions from, rather than in, sections with different formats, according to preliminary recommendations released Monday by the National Conference of Bar Examiners’ testing task force.
Read More about National Conference of Bar Examiners task force releases recommendations to improve the bar examMajority of test-takers flagged for cheating during California October bar exam have been cleared
BLOOMBERG LAW — The list of test takers suspected of cheating on California’s first-ever online bar exam has been narrowed to a fraction of the more than 3,000 initially flagged by video technology that monitored them during the test. The additional notifications mean nearly 90% of the 3,190 applicants have now been cleared.
Read More about Majority of test-takers flagged for cheating during California October bar exam have been clearedChanges may be on the horizon for the bar exam
ABA JOURNAL — While there’s significant disagreement on how the bar exam should change, many believe it will, and there’s a wide range of ideas about what should happen. So far, suggestions for change include breaking the test into smaller segments and administering part of it in law school.
Read More about Changes may be on the horizon for the bar examUniversity of Maine Law celebrates graduates’ bar exam success
UNIVERSITY OF MAINE SCHOOL OF LAW — The University of Maine School of Law is celebrating the success of the graduates of the Class of 2020 for their unprecedented pass rate on the Uniform Bar Exam this fall. A record-setting 91% of that class passed the Maine Bar Exam on their first attempt.
Read More about University of Maine Law celebrates graduates’ bar exam successA look at the Georgia October online bar exam results
GEORGIA BAR ADMISSIONS — The following is a list of names of applicants who passed the October 2020 Georgia Bar Examination. To be eligible for admission to the practice of law in Georgia, an applicant must have passed the Bar Examination and received an acceptable score of 75 or higher on the Multistate Professional Responsibility Examination.
Read More about A look at the Georgia October online bar exam resultsMaine bar exam pass rate improves over previous year
BANGOR DAILY NEWS — Eighty-six percent of the September test takers passed the exam, the highest passage rate since July 2016 and nearly 30 percentage points higher than the average passage rate of 56.6 percent between February 2015 and July 2019. The 2020 class of the University of Maine School of Law did even better.
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