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State Bar & Bar Associations,
Legal Education

Sep. 8, 2020

HR 103 correctly seeks to lower the California Bar Exam cut score

As a former member of the California State Bar Board of Trustees from 2013-2019, including having acted for several years as a Board liaison to the Committee of Bar Examiners, I was disappointed to learn that the California Supreme Court had not made the new bar exam cut-score of 1390 retroactive to any degree. HR 103 seeks to change that.

Joanna Mendoza

Joanna is a former member of the California State Bar Board of Trustees from 2013-2019, and previously acted as a Board liaison to the Committee of Bar Examiners.

As a former member of the California State Bar Board of Trustees from 2013-2019, including having acted for several years as a Board liaison to the Committee of Bar Examiners, I was disappointed to learn that the California Supreme Court had not made the new bar exam cut-score of 1390 retroactive to any degree.

During my time on the board and as the liaison to the Committee of Bar Examiners, we studied the causes of the declining pa...

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