First Day of National Online Bar Exam Goes Off—With Some Hitches
The software company delivering the online test said that 98% of takers were able to successfully begin their exams Monday, but test takers have reported a variety of technical problems.
October 05, 2020 at 03:22 PM
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The first day of the first multijurisdiction online bar exam is in the books—though not without some technical problems.
More than 30,000 law graduates across 18 jurisdictions logged onto the remote exam Monday in what is without doubt the single biggest experiment in the history of the attorney licensing exam. The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic prompted many jurisdictions to cancel in-person exams, which were originally scheduled for July, in favor of an abbreviated online version. It was not immediately clear whether the online exam can be considered a success, as test takers took to Twitter to report non-working password websites, mid-exam software reboots, and exam answers that were slow to upload. But the first day of the exam was not marked by a nationwide meltdown of the software delivering the test, as some examinees feared.
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