New Jersey bar examinees won't be sweating through Christmas as they await their results.

The New Jersey Board of Law Examiners released the results of its first-ever online bar exam Tuesday, alleviating fears that test takers would not know their fate before the Jan. 4 deadline to register for the February exam in the event they failed.

The pass rate for the online exam, which was given Oct. 5 and 6, was nearly identical to that of the in-person July 2019 exam: 66%. That pass rate is slightly higher than the average from the past five July exams, which is 65%, according to an announcement from the New Jersey Supreme Court.