NY State Bar Exam Pass Rate Edges Upward, to 65%, in 2019
The number of foreign-educated candidates who sat for the bar examination in New York this summer was a record 3,559, or 35% of all candidates.
October 24, 2019 at 01:32 PM
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The amount of candidates who passed the New York state bar exam in July rose to 65%, up two percentage points from a year ago, though they have still not fully rebounded from a steep decline since 2017.
See the List of Candidates Who Passed the July 2019 Bar Exam
According to data published by the New York State Board of Law Examiners, 6,536 of the 10,071 candidates who took the exam from July 30 to 31 passed the bar. In total, 392 more students sat for the exam this year than in 2018.
Those who attended ABA-accredited law schools and took the New York exam for the first time fared the best with an 86% passing rate, an increase of three percentage points from a year ago. The passing rate for graduates of New York law schools who took the bar for the first time in July was 85%, a four-percentage-point jump from last year.
The scores showed noticeable improvements from 2018, when declining scores in New York mirrored performance on the bar examination nationwide, which sunk to a 34-year low, according to the National Conference of Bar Examiners. In New York, only 63% of bar-exam takers passed in 2018, a decline of five percentage points from 2017.
The number of foreign-educated candidates who sat for the bar examination in New York this summer was a record 3,559, or 35% of all candidates. Forty three percent of those students passed, an increase of two percentage points from the previous year.
The New York Law Journal will post the names of successful candidates online and in Friday's print edition.
Successful candidates are certified for admission to the Appellate Division and must appear before the Committee on Character and Fitness to be examined before being admitted to the bar.
Read More:
NY State Bar Exam Pass Rates Plummet
A List of Candidates Who Passed the July 2018 Bar Exam
Multistate Bar Exam Scores Sink to 34-Year Low, Pass Rates Sag
Vast Majority of NY Law Schools Improve Bar Exam Passing Rates
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