What's Going on with the New York Bar Exam Results?

Based on your recent comments, it’s clear that many of you want to talk about New York bar exam results, which should be announced later this month. Many of you are wondering whether the scandal we dubbed “Laptopgate,” concerning problems with the software used by candidates who took the test on their computers, might delay the announcement of the results.
There’s nothing up about the subject over at the website of the New York State Board of Law Examiners. But in recent years, the results were released in mid-November. Archived press releases show that results for the last two July exams were announced on or about November 15, 2006, and November 18, 2005. So they’re not late yet, based on past practice.
But there are reasons for concern. From a reader::

I was one of those who had an answer overwritten during the July 2007 NY Bar examination. I received an email from NYBoLE in the end of August stating “this will confirm that we are in receipt of all of your printed (and/or handwritten) answers to essay questions 1 through 5 and the MPT.” [But then] I received another email from NYBoLE stating that they need me to upload my exam again to “verify that we have your complete essays” and that I “may have inadvertently received an email from us confirming that we are in receipt of your essays.”

Heard of this happening to anyone else?

Why yes, we have. In fact, we received several emails from ATL readers who sat for the New York bar exam in July 2007, describing similar situations.
A little more, after the jump.


We aren’t up on the latest news. If you have any updates or information to share, please do so in the comments. Or check out July 2007 New York Bar Exam Fiasco, a site created by an affected exam taker “to serve as a place where similarly situated examinees and others in the legal profession can share their ideas, concerns and information regarding the examination and this technological fiasco.” Ain’t the internets great?
P.S. There’s wide variation in when states announce bar exam results. One correspondent wonders:

What is the average delay between bar exam and results? Mississippi and Florida [came out a while ago]. New York, due to Laptopgate, may never come out…

Does the delay parallel with the length of the test and number of test takers, or is it completely scattershot?

Feel free to opine on that in the comments, too.
New York Board of Law Examiners [official website]
July 2007 New York Bar Exam Fiasco
New York Bar Examiners Still Can’t Find Complete Essay Answers [New York Personal Injury Law Blog]
Earlier: Prior ATL coverage of bar exams (scroll down)

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