State Bar & Bar Associations
Jan. 6, 2020
Most bar exam takers didn’t report race on July test
The lack of such data makes comparing performance by racial/ethnic group to prior years difficult, officials say.
More than 65% of applicants who took last July’s California bar exam did not report their race or ethnicity, an atypically high result the State Bar acknowledged makes it difficult to compare performance by race on the recent test with previous exams.
About 5% of exam applicants did not report their race or ethnicity in prior years, according to the bar.
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