Posted on 03/02/2023 10:21:36 AM PST by thegagline
The Delaware Supreme Court lowered the passing score on the state's bar exam amid other changes reportedly intended to increase racial diversity among the state's lawyers.
The 200-question multiple-choice exam will be offered twice instead of once a year beginning in 2024 – and its passing score will be lowered from 145 to 143, according to local outlet WHYY.
The number of essays on the exam will be decreased from eight to four, and the number of essay topics will be reduced from 14 to 10.
The clerkship requirement is also being lowered from 21 weeks to 12 weeks, and the mandatory list of 25 legal proceedings that potential lawyers must attend has been shortened to 18 out of 30 possible items.
The late application fee for law school graduates and attorneys admitted in other states has also been decreased.
In the court's announcement of the changes, Chief Justice Collins J. Seitz Jr. pushed back against any assertion that they reflect a "lowering of standards" and referred to them as a "modernization" of the admission process aimed at aligning with the standards in other states.
Seitz, who began the diversity project that led to a report that suggested changes to the exam, maintained that such revisions will enhance competitiveness in attracting legal talent to the state that serves as a hub of business litigation, according to Reuters. *** "White people generally who have their antennae up, who understand what is happening in society, have learned the meaning of microaggression. They’ve learned the meaning of how to be welcoming, how to be professional, how to make this community better suited for diversity in its professional class, including its lawyers," he said.
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“Perhaps the worst racism in America today is the soft bigotry of low expectations.” Posted by, “Tell It Right!”
Greg Gutfeld: Oregon is the latest state to decide reading, writing and math are racist!
The soft bigotry of low expectations has now become law!
So this is new. The state is mandating schools to become diploma mills. Oddly, the governor signed this Senate bill into law almost a month ago but didn’t brag about it.
There was no signing ceremony because again, writing is racist.
The state legislature had publicized other past laws but not this one. They hid it like a cold sore on prom night. I remember that.
It’s weird. Progressives have happily trumpeted a lot of crazy s-—. They’re even still bragging about defunding the police.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DVA0fgriT_GwDY-osczqP4aroC8bNHEzxXSIruesMjQ/edit
“The 200-question multiple-choice exam will be offered twice instead of once a year beginning in 2024 – and its passing score will be lowered from 145 to 143”
So the passing grade goes from 72.5% to 71.5%?
This doesn’t seem to be much of a difference.
Or am I missing something?
Should call it the “Limbo” instead of the Bar.
Judging by the last SC appointee, it’s been done already. Everywhere.
The Founding Fathers were a remarkable group of men but they made some mistakes. Letting the Three Lower Counties on Delaware be treated as a separate county from Pennsylvania was one of them.
Make that “a separate colony from Pennsylvania”
LOL
The reason for inequality is inequality.
Inequality can’t be remedied
‘Not supposed to be a barrier’
yes... IT IS!!!
a barrier to the unqualified
If it wasn’t much of a difference, they wouldn’t have to do it. Maybe it’s scored like the old SAT’s, and wrong answers are penalized.
Can the opening of the Algonquin J. Calhoun School of Law be far off?
Found this on some test-prep-looking web site: “In order to pass the Delaware bar exam, you must score at least 145. This equates to 145, based on the MBE’s 200-point scale. The scores of the exam sections are weighted as follows: written portion 60% and MBE 40%.”
Yay! More lawyers!
How hard can the Delaware bar exam be if Brandon passed? You know, #76 (of 85) in his law class and #506 (of 688) in his undergraduate graduating class.
Frito Pendejo will be getting his law degree a few hundred years earlier than previously thought.
Practically speaking it probably isn’t much of a difference. The point though is the perceived necessity of lowering the standard at all simply because they believe minority law students cannot pass the test.
Speaking as a Pennsylvanian, I’m not sure anything would be much better if we had held on to those lower counties. Remember we did elect a Senator who is basically brain dead.
One used to have to get your fake bar accreditation certificate from a print shop. Now the state is passing them out.
Beyond absurd — where’s the deluge of lawsuits over this
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