Perspective
Mar. 26, 2016
Two-day bar exam: still irrelevant
Why did the bar make the change to a two-day exam with added weight to the MBE? By its own admission, it was to save $600,000 a year. By Ira L. Shafiroff
Ira L. Shafiroff
Professor
Southwestern Law School
Email: ishafiroff@swlaw.edu
Ira is the author of "First-Year Law School Success: the Ultimate and Essential Guide for Every 1L" (4th ed. 613 House) (2018). The views expressed in Mr. Shafiroff's columns are his own.
Effective for the July 2017 administration, the California bar exam will no longer be a three-day ordeal, but a two-day exam. It will be comprised of five one-hour essays and one 90-minute performance test on the first day, and 200 multiple-choice questions, the Multistate Bar Exam (MBE), on the second day. The consequence of the change is that the MBE will now be worth a full 50 percent of the exam, up from the present 35 perc...
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