Florida International University Law celebrates graduates’ performance on the bar exam
FIU NEWS — FIU College of Law did it again this summer. FIU law graduates earned the highest passage rate among all Florida law schools on the Florida bar exam administered in July.
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ROI NJ — Rutgers Law School on Thursday said it will begin providing all of its graduating students with free comprehensive test prep for the bar exam through a new partnership with global educational services provider Kaplan.
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REUTERS — The State Bar of California is contemplating a new admissions pathway that would allow law graduates to become licensed without taking the bar exam.
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NCBEX — The National Conference of Bar Examiners (NCBE) announced today the planned duration and structure of the NextGen bar exam and the date by which the current bar exam will officially sunset.
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REUTERS — The new bar exam set to debut in July 2026 will be about three hours shorter than the current one.
Read More about Next-generation bar exam to reduce test time by three hoursUniversity of Iowa Law celebrates graduates’ results on the bar exam
UNIVERSITY OF IOWA COLLEGE OF LAW — The recent Iowa bar passage results show remarkable improvements in performance for Iowa Law graduates.
Read More about University of Iowa Law celebrates graduates’ results on the bar examOpinion: Law schools should take a page from med schools in a post-AI landscape
BLOOMBERG LAW — Bar exams moved online during the pandemic, fueling attention to issues under discussion, such as widely varying bar pass rates from state to state, and large costs to graduates of prep courses needed even after three years of law school.
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ABA JOURNAL — The national mean scaled score for the July 2023 Multistate Bar Examination, which consists of 200 multiple-choice questions, is 140.5, the National Conference of Bar Examiners announced Thursday.
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LAW.COM — Last week, trustees agreed in principle to drop two of five standard testing sites—one in Sacramento and one in San Diego—planned for the February 2024 bar exam.
Read More about California Bar considers consolidating exam sites and raising administrative feesNational Conference of Bar Examiners releases sample questions from NextGen Bar Exam
NCBE — The National Conference of Bar Examiners (NCBE), which develops bar exam content for 54 US jurisdictions, has published the first publicly available samples of two new question types that will be featured on the NextGen bar exam, which is set to launch in 2026.
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