DD is about to take the NY Bar, and will take the CA Bar next year (as both are on the same day forcing her to choose one for July and one for Feb). Her firm has offices in both locations, but she will be based in NYC. Not sure which bar exam is harder, but this may be good news for her.
A Standards workshop has been completed and the results published. The short of it is that they have support to keep the cut score the same if they choose, (altho I doubt that they will).
http://apps.calbar.ca.gov/cbe/docs/agendaItem/Public/agendaitem1000001926.pdf
update: CA Supreme Court holds the pass score at 144.
Hastings’ pass rate is up, but still embarrassingly low.
http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2017/12/july-2017-california-bar-exam-results.html
We really should just close all the schools below 60%.
^^either that, or force them to refund 3 years’ of tuition.
Stanford has a 96% bar pass rate. That must be embarrassing to graduate from Stanford law and fail the bar exam.
You’d probably be surprised at the type of student that graduated from a top law school but failed the bar exam. They are typically extremely smart and overthink the bar exam questions.
^^there are always a few takers that just don’t take the test seriously, for all kinds of reasons.
Even Yale doesn’t have a 100% pass rate.
@TomSrOfBoston: Kathleen Sullivan managed to get over it.