State Bar & Bar Associations
Mar. 27, 2017
State Bar official defends passing standard on bar exam
Gayle Murphy, the bar's senior director for admissions, said the cut score "was established only after careful analysis and deliberation."
By Lyle Moran
Daily Journal Staff Writer
Daily Journal Staff Writer
The State Bar's top admissions official has offered a defense of the passing score on the California bar exam, a standard law school deans and lawmakers have criticized as arbitrary and unsuccessfully requested be lowered.
Gayle Murphy's explanation of how the standard was crafted also comes after Bar Executive Director Elizabeth Rindskopf Parker told a legislative committee in February, "I'm emb...
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