Texas Bar Passage Rate Improves for July 2019 Test
Baylor Law School posted the highest pass rate for the July 2019 Texas Bar Examination, while Texas Southern University Thurgood Marshall School of Law had the lowest rate among Texas' 10 law schools.
October 29, 2019 at 06:06 PM
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Baylor Law School in Waco Texas. Photo: Robert Rogers
Bar exam pass rates appear to be on the ups, and Texas is no exception.
Among Texas law school graduates or students who were first-time takers of the Texas Bar Examination, 81.47% passed the July 2019 exam—an increase of 4.6% from a year earlier when 77.87% passed the exam.
That's also an improvement from the 80.95% pass rate for the July 2017 Texas bar exam.
Texas joins a number of other states posting higher pass rates for the July 2019 exam, after a six-year slide in passage rates nationally.
According to statistics made public Tuesday by the Texas Board of Law Examiners, 1,249 of 1,533 first-time test takers from the 10 Texas law schools passed the exam, while 284 did not pass.
For out-of-state schools, 446 of 615 first-time test-takers, or 72.52%, passed the July exam, and 169 did not pass.
For the second year in a row, Baylor Law School has the highest pass rate, at 93.48% for first-time test-takers. The University of Texas School of Law came in at a close second, with a 93.27% pass rate. Both of those pass rates improved slightly from a year ago.
Texas Southern University Thurgood Marshall School of Law again had the lowest pass rate of 57.64%, with 83 of 144 first-time test-takers passing and 61 not passing. But that rate was an improvement over the July 2018 exam, which only 44.5% of first-time test-takers passed.
The overall passing rate for the July 2019 bar exam, which includes first-time and repeat test takers, was 68.47%, with 1,987 of 2,902 passing. That is better than a year ago, when only 64.69% passed.
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