State Bar & Bar Associations
Sep. 7, 2017
State Bar board supports consideration of lower exam passing score
The agency’s recommendation of three options now heads to the state Supreme Court, which has the final say.
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The State Bar’s board voted 6-5 Wednesday to recommend the California Supreme Court consider two options for lowering the passing score on the bar exam, in addition to maintaining the existing standard of 144.
The two other standards the board wants the court to evaluate are “interim” scores of 141.4 and 139 that would be effective with this past July’s test.
Supreme Court spokesman Cathal Conneely...
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