The cost of living isn’t the only thing up this year! The bar exam — one of our industry’s time-honored hazing exercises, is the main hurdle that separates people who merely have JDs from bona fide esquires. And this year the average score of July test takers is the highest it has been in a while!
Reuters has coverage:
The national average score on July’s 200-question Multistate Bar Exam was the highest since 2013, the National Conference of Bar Examiners said Thursday, excluding results from 2020 when the test was delayed or modified due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Waiting to get your bar score back sucks, but hopefully knowing that people did well on average can salve the anxiety. Early congratulations on the passing grade! And if you didn’t receive one, there’s always February. While it isn’t the best solution to minting lawyers, one thing you can count on the bar to provide is consistency. Unless you are trying to practice in California. Hard to expect consistency from the California bar when they’re still trying to figure out which test to give or how to balance their ledgers, but at least it won’t be as bad as the hellscape February California bar takers had to tread through. Hopefully.
US National Bar Exam Scores Hit 12-Year High [Reuters]
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