Bar exam takers graded on others’ essays

The California State Bar said Wednesday three February applicants were initially given grades for essays they didn’t write, Maia Spoto reports.

Their scores didn’t change when their exams were later matched with the answers they wrote. Two failed, and one passed, the State Bar said in an email to test takers.

But the Bar’s review of applicants’ scoring concerns did change outcomes for some: Four more people have passed after the Bar said it caught a failure to properly impute scores and a “clerical error.”

Andrew Scott Noseworthy is one of them. He was working on his motorcycle Wednesday ...