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Supreme Court acts on bar exam change proposals

October 22, 2024

From Merrill Balassone’s news release for California Courts (“California Supreme Court Approves Incentives to Test Drive New Bar Exam Questions”): “The California Supreme Court on Tuesday approved a State Bar of California proposal to provide bar applicants an incentive for a study being held on Nov. 8 and Nov. 9 that will pretest experimental multiple-choice exam questions developed by Kaplan, Inc. Participants in those studies may increase their chances of passing a future bar exam under certain conditions.”

From Cheryl Miller’s report in The Recorder (“California Supreme Court Authorizes Move to Remote Bar Exam”): “California’s Supreme Court on Tuesday approved changes to the state’s bar exam that will allow the . . . test to be administered in homes and smaller vendor-operated sites instead of the traditional convention centers and hotel ballrooms.”

Today’s two court orders are here and here.

This bar stuff is just one of the court’s many non-case-related responsibilities. (See: The multi-tasking Supreme Court.)

Related:

“California Supreme Court Rejects State Bar’s Initial Plan for New Bar Exam”

Supreme Court flunks alternative-to-bar-exam pathway

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