There was a drop in the number of people who successfully passed California’s state bar examination in February as compared with last year.
A spokesperson for the State Bar of California announced Friday that 1,056 people passed the 2022 California General Bar Exam, or 33.9 percent of applicants. That is a drop of nearly 8.9 percent from 2021’s pass rate of 37.2 percent, but higher than the February 2020 pass rate of 26.8 percent.
February’s examination was the first in-person exam since February 2020.
“This is a day of pure joy for the 1,056 applicants who passed the General Bar Exam, and their families, as well as the 209 candidates who passed the Attorney’s Exam,” said Leah Wilson, State Bar executive director. “We congratulate all those who successfully passed the exam and look forward to welcoming them to California’s legal profession very soon.”
The national average score on the Multistate Bar Exam (MBE) dropped to 132.6 — the lowest all-time score — matching the low reached on the 2020 February exam.
Attendance at California’s February 2022 General Bar Exam was slightly higher (3,113) than during the remotely administered February 2021 exam (3,098) but still low compared to past years, when 4,000 to 5,000 typically took the exam.
A pass list from February’s examination will be published on the state bar website at 6 a.m. Sunday. The website address is www.calbar.ca.gov.
As a reference here is the Professional Engineers Test pass rate https://ncees.org/engineering/pe/pass-rates/
Is this the good news story of the day?
@Fred Thanks for that. As for Californians, God help us with the official “Barred” … NOT Barrister loons coming down the shute to community court room near you.
Agreed. I think we have too many lawyers now! And all we need is more of the ‘social justice’ ones. They’ve really screwed things up for our society. They weren’t really after real social justice, but revenge & anarchy I think.
Since the national average score on the MBE has dropped to an all time low, it appears more people will be qualified to eventually be a District Attorney or the AG in California.
Fewer Lawyers, finally some good news.
Fewer Lawyers is never a bad thing. But this does demonstrate that so-called “distance learning” is the farthest thing possible from actual learning.
The February exam is typically the lower-scoring of the yearly examinations. I’m surprised the numbers haven’t appreciated significantly since the exam administration was shortened to 2 days.
Hopefully the State Bar will not lower testing standards further, at the risk of reducing attorney competence in representing the general public.
…. now we have dumbed up lawyers in Cali like dumbed up teachers trying to teach our kids
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“…1,056 people passed the 2022 California General Bar Exam, or 33.9 percent of applicants. That is a drop of nearly 8.9 percent from 2021’s pass rate of 37.2 percent…”
Somebody needs to check their math!!!!!
…. some of our dumbed up teachers must have been writing that or teaching someone who did… they took a percentage of a percentage which is a math no-no …omg if this is what they are teaching we’re in deep doo-doo