Congratulations/condolences to all of you February bar-takers who passed/failed. The pass rate was 56%, which is lower than July's 69% pass rate, but on par with February 2008's 57% pass rate. No word yet on what our local lawyer factory's passage rate was, but we'll let you know when we find out. Feel free to use the comments of this post to express exuberation/blow off steam.
Why is the passage rate generally lower in Feb, compared to July?
ReplyDelete1) Nontraditional people taking the bar: from other states who are not recent law school grads, maybe part-time students or students who went straight threw school because they didn't have the grades to get clerk ships, etc.
ReplyDelete2) second time takers: You are statistically most likely to pass your first time.
Those are my guesses.
Simple answer: the February Bar consists, in large part, of previous-year graduates who swung and missed the previous summer. Additional bar review gets some of those folks through, but some just aren't able to beat the bar exam.
ReplyDeleteAs someone who will be sitting for the July bar, you guys are freaking me out.
ReplyDeleteThe big reason the rate is lower in February is because that is what the NV Supreme Court decides to do upon the recommendation of the Board of Governors. If you look at the Supreme Court Rules, you'll find that about a month before the exam, they set a passage rate. This is not just a case of poor performance in February. The Board has decided that February takers are more in need of being sifted and so they lower the pass rate. They raise it in the summer so that Boyd's pass rate can go up. The sad fact of the matter is that this makes the chance of passing the Feb. bar only slightly greater than winning a coin toss.
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1:41 is full of crap.
ReplyDeleteI think 11:47 is right on the money.
So 1:41, you still aren't over failing the February bar the first time huh. Don't worry, we all swing and miss sometimes.
ReplyDelete5:38 PM "we all swing and miss sometimes."
ReplyDeleteNot me! I passed it the first time.
Then I turned around and went out of state and passed theirs in February, the first time!
It's great being me!!
Ditto.
ReplyDeleteSwinging and missing is for losers.
:p
What i find really interesting is that Boyd generally its tenative bar passages within hours of the results. Yet, they have failed to do so this time days afterwards.
ReplyDeleteBoyd, is there something you would like to tell us? Or are you afraid that you might slip out of the rankings again?
I believe the above comment meant to say "posts" the results.
ReplyDeleteBoyd's pass rate this February was just around the state average. I don't think that is anything unusual. I never really recall them posting the February pass rates. I really think the lower pass rates are attributed to the non-traditional students who take it. Most of them probably work and try to study at the same time. In contrast, the majority of people taking the July exam will be devoting all their time to studying.
ReplyDeleteSCR 65(3) states, "At least 30 days before each examination, or within such further time as the court may permit, the board of bar examiners shall file with the supreme court for approval a proposed formula upon which the Multistate Bar Examination results will be applied with the other portions of the total examination results. In addition, at least 30 days before each examination, or within such further time as the court may permit, the board of bar examiners shall file with the supreme court for approval a proposed formula for grading the entire examination."
ReplyDeleteWhen you fail, you get a copy of the scores along with that formula. If you examine the formula you will find that one number is a variable that corresponds directly with the percentage of people that they want to pass each year.
You'd be surprised how many people are oblivious to the way this works.
If you find that irritating, you don't even want to know about the lack of an appeals process, or the fact that your answers only get double checked if your close, and by close they mean less than .5 of a point from passing.
I received my MBE scaled score in the mail. Is there a way to know what the passing range is?
ReplyDeleteLook at this link from the PA bar: http://www.pabarexam.org/Bar_Examination/Statistics/pdfs/0209stats.pdf
ReplyDeleteThe mean MBE scaled score for the nation was 135.67. The national range on the MBE scaled score was 80.7 - 186.8
Thanks for the sharing..........
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