While there was overall improvement in the pass rate for aspiring attorneys who sat for New York’s bar examination in July, those numbers went down slightly for candidates who took the exam for the first time, the New York State Board of Law Examiners announced on Thursday.

The board examined 3,109 candidates who graduated from New York’s 15 law schools, of whom 82% passed the exam—a 4% decrease from the July 2021 administration.

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