State Bar & Bar Associations
May 18, 2010
Bar Exam Pass Rate Inches Up
About one in three people who took the State Bar exam in February passed it - 37.1 percent - a slight increase from last year.
By Amy Yarbrough
Daily Journal Staff Writer
SAN FRANCISCO - Thirty-seven percent of people who took the California Bar Exam in February passed, marking a slight increase from last year.
Although it wasn't a record, February's pass rate was 3.6 percentage points higher than in February 2009, when the rate hit a seven-year low. The year before that, in 2008, 39.6 percent of applicants passed.
Half of first-t...
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