Posted on 03/14/2017 7:38:53 AM PDT by george76
The State Bar of California has agreed to launch a comprehensive assessment of whether the minimum score needed to pass its bar examination should be lowered to allow more prospective attorneys to pass.
In recent weeks, a growing chorus of voices — from state legislators to law school deans to court officials — have registered urgent concerns that the lowest score needed to pass the exam, commonly referred to as the “cut score,” is too high, flunking would-be attorneys who would qualify to practice law nearly everywhere else in the country.
That sense of urgency has increased since November, after it was revealed that the passage rate for the state’s latest bar exam had tumbled to a 32-year low, with just 43 percent making the grade — nearly a 3 percent slide from the previous exam.
California’s bar exam tests law school grads with a mixture of multiple-choice questions, essays and a performance exam that assesses practical skills, like writing a legal brief or analyzing a contract.
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Critics also say that the state’s high cut score is warping legal education to emphasize passing the bar exam, rather than promoting practical knowledge and legal skills, and that it disproportionately disadvantages lower-income and minority law students.
“Having an appropriate standard for who can become an attorney is important because it means we have the broadest number of people practicing law as possible,” said Assemblyman Mark Stone, D-Monterey Bay, who chairs the Assembly Judiciary Committee.
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yesssssss.... so we can have even more lawyers.
You mean more lawyers that are dumb(er).
The modern white liberal hates high standards.
Yeah, because there’s a real shortage of dumb California lawyers.
My daughter recently finished Law School a semester early and passed the California Bar on the first try. That allowed her to beat her classmates to the job market.
Here’s her secret: She studied tirelessly.
Please don’t spread that around. We wouldn’t want too many people succeeding.
Perhaps those wanting to be brain surgeons shouldn’t have to study the brain anymore, cause studying is hard you know.
It’s interesting that the left likes to lower the scores required for teaching and litigating, but never for engineers and doctors - guess they understand that there is no room for error where real professionals are concerned.
Exactly! When I studied for my boards, we were told 3-5 hours PER DAY for 6 months of studying was about what it would take assuming you knew how to study and would remain focused.
Now they want to study at Starbucks for 3 hours total and pass.
Maybe they should do an affirmative action grading curve based on how the questions make them feel.
Who are these “critics”? Democraps, no doubt. Complete stupid and greedy morons.
Because women and minorities want to be lawyers too
the bar is trivial easy to pass
try passing the Architects exam - 25% pass rate
The Oroville Dam isn’t the only thing eroding in California.
“If at first you don’t succeed, lower your standards.”
So do the non Asian minorities
I knew there was a “minority” aspect in there somewhere. I had to read a bit to find it.
When exam after exam shows the same thing, it’s time to start paying attention to what the exam results are telling us, instead of changing the exams.
“The best way to distract your client while picking his pocket is to:
A. Casually bump into him.
B. Yell out, “Look! It’s OJ Simpson!”
C. Hit him in the head with your briefcase.
D. Tell him about your new Bentley.”
btt
C’mon we all know the Cal Bar Exam must be racist since it has a differential impact on blacks and Hispanics
Haven’t we heard this for the last 50 years?
Only A Quota System is fair, with the White Libs determining the ‘correct” percentages
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