A July 23 letter from 19 California law school deans asks the Supreme Court to retroactively apply the recently lowered bar exam passing score to those who took the last test, in February. The deans say that the February test takers who didn’t pass but who reached the new lower score “are being double-penalized, both by the score not applying to the February exam and by the fact that [because of the pandemic-related delay of the next exam] they, and only they, will have achieved that now-passing score and yet must wait several additional months beyond the usual timing of the regularly scheduled exam for a new exam and that exam’s results.”
[July 27 update: Henrik Nilsson reports in the Daily Journal that the court is considering the retroactivity issue, that it is drafting an administrative order regarding the lowered passing score, and that its next regularly scheduled administrative conference is August 19.]
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