The Recorder reports that the
California Bar Committee Endorses Lowering Exam Pass-Score:
A California State Bar committee stocked with law school deans recommended on Wednesday that the Supreme Court reduce the bar exam passing score from 144 to as low as 135. The Law School Council endorsed setting the state's passing score between 135 and 139, a lower range than the 141 to 144 that a previous bar-commissioned study had suggested.
The DJ's article is
State Bar staff urges consideration of lower exam passing score, and reports: "
The bar examiners’ panel will meet Thursday in
San Francisco to submit a recommendation on the cut score to the board. The
board will meet Sept. 6 in Los Angeles to make a recommendation to the state
Supreme Court, which has the final say."
"A passing score of 139 would have resulted in a
40 percent increase in the number of African Americans passing the July 2016
exam, while 26 percent more Hispanics would have succeeded, the bar reported.
Nearly 24 percent more Asians would have passed with that reduced score,
compared to 17 percent more Caucasians, the bar’s data indicated."
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