The California Bar has released the results of the July 2023 bar exam. The overall pass rate was 51.5%, down 0.9 percentage point from last year’s exam. For California ABA-accredited law schools, the pass rate for first time test-takers was 76%, up 3 percentage points from 2022.
| School Type | First-Timers | Repeaters |
| California ABA | 76.3% | 36.7% |
| Out-of-State ABA | 69.9% | 27.0% |
| CA Accredited (Not ABA) | 33.2% | 15.7% |
| Unaccredited – Correspondence | 40.0% | 18.8% |
| Unaccredited – Distance Learning | 17.4% | 13.3% |
| Unaccredited – Fixed-Facility | 14.3% | 4.8% |
| All Others | 25.0% | 20.6% |
| All Applicants | 64.8% | 24.1% |
The State Bar of California reported today that 51.5 percent of applicants passed the July 2023 General Bar Examination (GBX). As a result, the 3,888 people who passed the July exam will be eligible for admission to the State Bar as soon as all admissions requirements are satisfied. …
California’s General Bar Exam pass rate of 51.5 percent represented a slight drop from last year’s July pass rate of 52.4 percent. Preliminary statistical analyses show that of the 7,555 applicants who completed the GBX, 67.3 percent were first-time takers. The pass rate for these 5,083 first-time applicants was 64.8 percent. The pass rate for the 2,472 applicants repeating the exam was 24.1 percent.
