Many opted instead for a shortened online bar exam administered in October. And a small number of states introduced diploma privilege programs that allowed recent law graduates to skip the bar exam altogether.
All states gave the bar exam in July this year, but 29 jurisdictions opted for a full-length online exam while 24 gave an in-person test. New York, California, Florida and Illinois chose online exams both years, but examinees took a shorter test and had more than two additional months to study than did their July counterparts. The National Conference of Bar Examiners has said it does not plan to offer future bar exams in the online format and will return to in-person testing only.
Five of the nine states that have already announced July pass rates only gave full-length, in-person exams in both July of and — yet the pass rates fell significantly in four of those jurisdictions this year. Read more:. Will this week mark the end of the remote bar exam? Subscribe for our daily curated newsletter to receive the latest Reuters legal news and headlines delivered to your inbox.
Memorize it, verbatim. Do not mistake your excellent overall understanding of the law for having it memorized. So it follows that the easiest way to squeeze more points from that portion is to memorize the nuances and intricacies of the law.
Understanding — Once you have the memorization down, you need to make sure you understand all the things you have memorized. Ensure that you can explain the principles and functions of the laws and codes you now know by memory. Explain the concepts out loud, explain the concepts to laypeople. You should have created outlines that help you both memorize and understand the material you will be tested on, use them, and refine them.
An ideal length of your outlines should be about pages, long enough without being overly detailed. Methodical Application — Lots of law students try to race through the MBE portion, without giving much thought to the actual substantive content of the answers.
Focus on quality over quantity, but pace yourself. Only two states have reported year-over-year increases for the July exam so far Maine's pass rate dropped by 27 percentage points Florida saw slight dip. More from Reuters. Sign up for The Daily Docket Subscribe for our daily curated newsletter to receive the latest Reuters legal news and headlines delivered to your inbox.
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