Posted on 01/09/2021 9:59:05 AM PST by CheshireTheCat
The California State Bar has released the results from the October 2020 online bar exam. The overall pass rate was 60.7%, up 10.6 percentage points from last year's July exam. For California ABA-accredited law schools, the pass rate for first time test-takers was 84%, up 13 percentage points from 2019. The was the first exam graded under the new cut score of 1390, reduced from 1440 by the California Supreme Court on July 16, 2020....The California State Bar has released the results from the October 2020 online bar exam. The overall pass rate was 60.7%, up 10.6 percentage points from last year's July exam. For California ABA-accredited law schools, the pass rate for first time test-takers was 84%, up 13 percentage points from 2019. The was the first exam graded under the new cut score of 1390, reduced from 1440 by the California Supreme Court on July 16, 2020...
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-PJ
Isn’t Kim Kardashian going to take the bar exam? I don’t remember hearing anything about going to law school. Just a formality, I guess.
My sentiments exactly.
GMTA
What is a perfect score for the bar exam? Thanks
1,600 x .84 = 1,344.
But can they read and write? Are the scores calculated using Dominion machines?
Oops, posted before checking the cut number.
1,655 x .84 = 1,390.2.
Ask Kim Kardashian. She is studying for the CA bar exam. Seems California does not require an attorney to have a college degree. True.
Wondering if a HS diploma is optional as well.....
60% ???? That was considered an “F” for Failing in my day.
What do you call a dead lawyer at the bottom of the sea?
A good start!
ONLINE??? How many people were taking the test in one location...ie: as a group???
After all it is only equitable.
Next year you will be able to take pre-law in 11th and 12th grade. You can then get you law degree in junior college. If you pay an extra $49.95 you won’t have to sit the bar exam.
Some of you may be asking, “Won’t this impact the quality of the justice system?” Surely you jest, what justice system?
They’re mostly “minorities” and I don’t mean Asians. I suspect they’ll get government jobs and affirmative action spots with the big, corporate firms.
Affirmative action rots every institution that uses it. Once you hire the incompetent, you then have to promote them. Once they reach a level where they are involved in hiring, they will only hire those who are less competent than they are. They cycle then continues. Why do you think there are so many female police chiefs in major cities.
Weren’t there accusations of cheating recently?
I found that the bar exam was a unique challenge. It required different skills than those needed to do well in law school, and vastly different skills from those required to actually be a successful lawyer. Yet I have seen again and again that those who struggled with the bar exam turn out to be lawyers of a lesser quality than those who did not. In fact, based on my observations over nearly forty years, there seems to be a direct relationship between the degree one struggles with the bar, and the quality of the lawyer one turns out to be.
Affirmative action?
Not getting the mix they want so dumbing down the test (by lowering the passing grade)?
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