For the first time since 2000, the percentage of law students passing the February Connecticut bar exam fell to under 50 percent, the latest sign of a downward trend as numbers for those taking the exam in both February and July have dropped precipitously in the past few years.

Educators and legal experts say it’s not clear why those numbers have dropped, but they say the trend is not promising. The latest results, released this month, show that only 38 percent, 74 of 195 students, who sat for the bar exam in February passed.

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