Bar Exams, California

California Bar Cut Score Continues To Draw Controversy

The study has done little to quell the complaints directed towards the California State Bar.

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It’s hardly a giant surprise that a study that the bar commissioned and whose terms and approach they defined has managed to come out with a recommendation that supports almost precisely what they’ve been doing without evidence for the past 30 years.

— Jennifer Mnookin, law dean at UCLA, commenting on a study prepared for the California State Bar by educational consulting firm ACS Ventures, on the state’s contentiously high bar exam minimum passing score. A California passing score has been 144 — the second highest in the country — and amid the controversy the state bar commissioned a study to assess the cut score. Without making any definitive recommendations, the study found a 144 cut score was acceptable and that a lower score of 141 was also appropriate. The study has done little to quell the complaints directed towards the California State Bar.

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