ABA: Are Record Low Multistate Bar Exam Scores The Result Of Declining Law School Admissions Standards?

Following up on my previous post, Muller: February 2017 MBE Bar Scores Collapse To All-Time Record Low:  ABA Journal, Multistate Bar Exam Scores Drop to Lowest Point Ever; Is There a Link to Low-end LSAT Scores?:

The average score on the multistate bar exam in February 2017 dropped by another point, reaching the lowest level since the exam was first administered in 1972.

Erica Moeser, president of the National Conference of Bar Examiners, confirms that the average score was 134.1, compared to an average score of 135 in February 2016.

Derek Muller (Pepperdine), The Best Ways to Visualize the Impact of the Decline in Bar Passage Scores:

[T]he reason for the perilous drop in bar pass rates is because this is exactly the spot where the mean scores have begun to hit the cut scores in many jurisdictions. Here's a visualization of what looks like, with a couple of changes — a larger y-axis, historical data for the February bar back to 1976, and gridlines identifying the cut scores in several jurisdictions.