California has 1,151 new attorneys this week with the State Bar announcing 37.2% of people taking the bar exam passed the two-day test to earn their law license.
The pass rate for the online test was up more than 10 percentage points from February 2020, when 26.8% passed the biannual exam for lawyers in training. The previous winter version of the test was held in-person, before the pandemic forced the test online and the California Supreme Court lowered the pass score to 1390 from 1440.
If the “cut score” had remained at 1440, the pass rate would have dropped to ...
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