State Bar & Bar Associations
Sep. 19, 2024
State bar should be praised for experimenting with bar exam reforms
The State Bar of California is planning to administer its bar exam with an experiment to ensure the new questions work and the new remote testing software and testing centers are able to securely administer the exam. The experiment is an opportunity for the State Bar to be transparent to the public, to the applicants, and all the stakeholders, something the National Conference of Bar Examiners has never managed to do.
Susan Smith Bakhshian
Director of Bar Programs Loyola Law School, Los Angeles
Email: susan.bakhshian@LLS.edu
The State Bar needs practical solutions to administer its bar exam within its financial means. Instead, law schools and other critics of the State Bar's plans find fault at every turn and fantasize about avoiding changes to the bar exam. While exam changes over a longer time frame would be preferred, that is no longer an option. Today's realistic options are administering the exam with or without an experiment first. Count me in on the side of an experiment.
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