The New York State Board of Law Examiners on Tuesday released the results of its February 2015 bar exam, taken by 3,997 candidates over two days of testing.

The pass rate for first-time test-takers from New York law schools who sat for the exam was virtually unchanged from February 2014, according to a Board of Law Examiners news release and Law Journal files.

Of New York law school graduates who took the test for the first time, 68 percent passed, a decline of about 1 percent.