State Bar & Bar Associations
Sep. 1, 2017
State Bar committee votes to maintain exam passing score
Members of the Committee of Bar Examiners said they did not have data to support reducing the standard.
The Committee of Bar Examiners voted 13-1 Thursday to recommend no change be made to the passing score on the California bar exam, bucking calls from law school deans and a powerful state lawmaker to lower the standard on an interim basis in the midst of falling passage rates.
The committee overwhelmingly supported maintaining the pass line of 144 until two other studies related to the bar exam are completed, including one that will ...
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