Update: State Bar Files Petition with California Supreme Court (petition) (exhibits) (Apr. 29, 2025)
The Recorder, State Bar May Delay Release of February Exam Results:
California’s state bar late Monday warned those who took the February bar exam that the agency may not post their test results on Friday, a release date scheduled months ago.
In an email to applicants, the bar’s admissions office noted that the agency has not yet filed its response to the California’s Supreme Court April 24 order for information on how and why artificial intelligence was used to develop some of the questions on the February test.
The bar’s response to the court’s order will also include the committee of bar examiners’ request, made April 18, to lower the raw passing score on the February exam to compensate for the numerous technical and proctoring issues test takers faced. …
The committee of bar examiners is scheduled to meet Monday to consider additional remedies for those who took the February exam, including provisional licensing. The state Senate Judiciary Committee is expected to discuss on May 6 the problems that afflicted the test as lawmakers consider the bar’s annual licensing fee bill and legislation to investigate the February exam.
- ABA Journal, California Delays Releasing Results From Troubled February Bar Exam
- The Recorder, State Bar Defends AI Use on Bar Exam, Asks Calif. Supreme Court to Lower Passing Score
- Reuters, California Considers Scrapping Revamped Bar Exam After Botched Test Rollout
Prior TaxProf Blog coverage:
- California Bar Exam Suffers Catastrophic Meltdown: ‘I’ve Never Had This Much Despair And Hopelessness’ (Feb. 27, 2025)
- The California Bar Exam Fiasco: Is Provisional Licensure The Appropriate Remedy? (Mar. 1, 2025)
- New York Times: California Bar Exam Fiasco Enrages Test Takers And Clouds Their Futures; Chemerinsky Calls For Provisional Licensure (Mar. 3, 2025)
- 17 Deans Ask California High Court To Provisionally License Grads Who Fail February Exam And Scrap New Kaplan-Written Questions And Revert Back To In-Person Exams In July (Mar. 4, 2025)
- California Supreme Court Reverts Back To In-Person Bar Exam In July (Mar. 5, 2025)
- Law Profs: California State Bar Must Be Held Accountable For Its Catastrophic Failures (Mar. 6, 2025)
- California Bar Orders Investigation Of February Exam Disaster As Beleaguered Test-Takers Fume (Mar. 9, 2025)
- California Bar Blocked Law School Deans And Professors From Vetting Troubled Bar Exam (Mar. 15, 2025)
- California Bar Recommends Provisional Licensure For All Who Failed And Withdrew From The February Bar Exam (Mar. 16, 2025)
- State Bar Of California Announces Remediation Actions For The February Bar Exam And Plans For The July Bar Exam (Mar. 18, 2025)
- California Bar Still Can’t Decide How To Make Applicants Whole After Botched February Bar Exam (Apr. 8, 2025)
- California Bar Allowed Non-Lawyers To Use AI To Draft February Exam Questions, Will Ask Supreme Court To Lower Cut Score (Apr. 23, 2025)
- California Supreme Court Demands Answers From State Bar On Its Use Of AI In Preparing Bar Exam Questions (Apr. 26, 2025)
- Pressure Grows On California Bar To Switch To NCBE For July Exam Following February Exam Debacle (Apr. 28, 2025)
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