Muller On The Bar Exam Carnage

Following up on my posts (links below) on the recent bar exam carnage:  Derek Muller (Pepperdine), Visualizing the Overall Bar Pass Rate Declines in 2015 Across Jurisdictions:

Cobbling together the overall results from July 2013 to July 2015, a two-year change, the trends are fairly stark in most jurisdictions, often joining together significant declines in 2014 with modest declines in 2015.

The entering class profiles for the next few law school classes suggest that these trends will continue, at least to a small degree--the total degree remains something of an open question

Prior TaxProf Blog coverage:

• More Bar Exam Carnage? (Sept. 17, 2015)
• Bloomberg: Bar Exam Scores Drop To Their Lowest Point In Decades — Unprepared Students Can't Handle A Harder Test (Sept. 18, 2015)
• L.A. Times: Deans Of Some California Law Schools Say Low LSAT Scores Do Not Predict Bar Exam Failure (Nov. 15, 2015)
• Bar Exam Carnage Continues: 10 Of 15 New York Law Schools Suffer Bar Pass Rate Declines (Nov. 16, 2015)
• 50% Of Law Grads Who Failed California Bar Would Have Passed In A Different State (Nov. 22, 2015)
• Bar Exam Carnage Continues: 10 Of 15 New York Law Schools Suffer Bar Pass Rate Declines (Nov. 16, 2015)
• Bar Exam Carnage Spreads Across The Country (Nov. 24, 2015)
• More Bar Exam Carnage: California (Nov. 27, 2015)