That collective sigh of relief you hear this morning is the 66 percent of folks that sat for the July New York bar exam who passed the licensing test. (And also Swifties finally getting to listen to the hyped Midnights.) The good news? The overall pass rate is up three percent.
But the data isn’t all sunshine and roses, as reported by Law.com:
The board examined 3,109 candidates who graduated from New York’s 15 law schools, of whom 82% passed the exam—a 4% decrease from the July 2021 administration.
The 2,448 out-of-state grads who sat for the exam had an 87% pass rate, which was down 3% from last year.
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First time test takers also didn’t fair as well as they did last year — for all first time test takers the pass rate was 75 percent, down from 78 percent for the July 21 administration of the exam (there was also a decline in the pass rate of first time test takers that graduated from ABA accredited law school at 85 percent compared with last year’s 87 percent).
Foreign-educated test takers really pulled up the average pass rate — 44 percent passed the exam, a 13 percent increase over last year. Repeat test takers also had a better than expected year with a pass rate of 23 percent, up 5 percentage points.
Congrats to all that passed the bar exam. The bad news? Now you actually have to be lawyers.
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Kathryn Rubino is a Senior Editor at Above the Law, host of The Jabot podcast, and co-host of Thinking Like A Lawyer. AtL tipsters are the best, so please connect with her. Feel free to email her with any tips, questions, or comments and follow her on Twitter (@Kathryn1).