Saturday, September 18, 2021
Early Signs Point To Lower July 2021 Bar Exam Pass Rates
Karen Sloan (Reuters), Ominous Early Signs Emerge For July 2021 Bar Exam Pass Rates:
Data from the July 2021 bar exam is starting to roll in, and test-takers' performance isn't looking great.
The average score on the Multistate Bar Exam, the 200-question multiple-choice portion of the test, fell to 140.4. That's a decrease of 0.7 from July 2019, which is the last time a national cohort of examinees took the same test, the National Conference of Bar Examiners announced Wednesday.
But more alarmingly for test takers and legal educators, pass rates are down year-over-year in all but one of the nine states that have announced results, some by large margins.
NCBE Releases National Means for July MBE, August MPRE:
The national MBE mean scaled score for July 2021 was 140.4, a decrease of 0.7 points compared to the national mean of 141.1 in July 2019, the most recent previous July administration when a full national group was tested. 45,872 examinees from 53 jurisdictions took the MBE in July 2021, a slight increase over the 45,334 examinees from 54 jurisdictions who took the exam in July 2019. ...
Jurisdictions have begun reporting their July 2021 results; bar examination pass rates as reported by jurisdictions are available on the NCBE website. Many jurisdictions are still in the process of grading the written components of the bar exam; once this process is completed, bar exam scores will be calculated and passing decisions reported by those jurisdictions.
- Derek Muller (Iowa), Early Signs Point to Dropping July 2021 Bar Exam Results
- Derek Muller (Iowa), Multistate Bar Exam Scores Drop But Remain Consistent With Scores Since 2014
- Joe Patrice (Above the Law), Bar Exam Scores Dip … Time For Everyone To Freak Out!
- Katheryn Tucker (Law.com), Early Bar Exam Results Less Drama-Filled Than the Test Itself
- Stephanie Francis Ward (ABA Journal), National Mean Scaled Score For August MBE Slightly Decreases Compared to 2019
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