Opinion: California State Bar needs to do more to help those affected by troubled bar exam rollout
THE SAN DIEGO UNION TRIBUNE — We, as applicants for the February 2025 California Bar Exam, expected a fair assessment of our legal knowledge and reasoning. Instead, we encountered widespread technical failures — so severe that even the California Supreme Court acknowledged the “disappointment, stress and frustration” caused by delays, lost responses and system crashes.
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REUTERS — Results for the February bar exam’s multiple-choice portion of the national test were the lowest on record and suggest that pass rates for the entire test will be down.
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