State Bar & Bar Associations
Jun. 8, 2018
Some unintended(?) consequences of California’s inflated cut score
Like many, I found the 27.3 percent February 2018 bar pass rate distressing — particularly because some of the 2,644 unsuccessful repeat takers are my former students.
Mai Linh Spencer
Associate Clinical Professor of Law
UC Hastings College of the Law
Labor & Employment
200 McAllister Street
San Francisco , CA 94102-4707
Phone: (415) 565-4743
Fax: (415) 565-4743
Email: spencerm@uchastings.edu
New York Univ Law School
Like many, I found the 27.3 percent February 2018 bar pass rate distressing -- particularly because some of the 2,644 unsuccessful repeat takers are my former students. And like many, I question if it isn't time we reduce California's cut score.
Twenty law school deans, including my own, have advocated forcefully -- but unsuccessfully -- to lower the California passing score of 1440 to something more in line with national median, 1...
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