Earlier this month, those who sat for the February bar exam in California received their results, and they weren’t pretty. Only 31% passed. For first-time takers who were graduates of ABA-accredited law schools in California, the pass rate was 45%. California (which, together with New York, has more bar applicants than any other state) has the second-highest cut score in the nation, after tiny Delaware.

Though California bar takers, on average, perform better than their counterparts elsewhere on the multistate bar exam (MBE), a far greater number fail as a direct consequence of California’s exceptionally high cut score.

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