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State Bar & Bar Associations

Jun. 12, 2025

California Supreme Court orders fixes for botched bar exam

The court greenlit expanded provisional licensing for affected test takers and authorized scoring adjustments that could help hundreds of applicants pass.

The California Supreme Court has approved the State Bar's requests to extend a provisional licensing program and apply scoring adjustments to the botched February bar exam.

Two orders issued Wednesday mark the latest moves in a months-long back and forth between the court and the bar. In the first order, S291047, the court expanded the provisional licensing program first created in 2020 to aid law school graduates whose ability to take and pass the bar was disrupted by the COV...

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