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Over 60,000 aspiring attorneys take the bar exam every year, but not all of them pass. But what are the bar exam pass rates, and how hard is it, really? In this guide, I’ll outline the trends and ...

In Pennsylvania, Tennessee and Georgia, the top schools didn't fare as well compared to lower-ranked schools for July 2025 ...

Despite very high pass rates, the bar exam is one of the most challenging professional ventures you can take. In 2024, the national average pass rate for first-time test takers from ABA-accredited law ...

Out of 345 aspiring lawyers who took the February 2025 bar exam in Ohio, 147 (or 43%) passed, according to results posted by the Ohio Supreme Court. As for the exam’s 122 first-time test takers, that ...

Pass rates on the February 2025 bar exam skyrocketed for students of California-accredited law schools, with success percentages at some campuses increasing by five- or even 10-fold, according to ...

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Over 3,000 lawyer hopefuls gathered at the Tampa Convention Center at the end of July for a two-day exam that would measure all they had learned in law school. On Monday, after nearly two months of ...

The University of Florida and Jacksonville University were the only schools to have graduates score over 90 percent on July's bar examination, according to results released Sept. 22. First-time test ...

More than 200 people who took California's bar exam in February will have their scores changed from "fail" to "pass" after a California Bar committee approved new scoring adjustments. The grading ...

Cornell Law School boasts the highest pass rate of the July 2015 New York bar exam — 96.6 percent, a two percent increase from last year, according to New York Law Journal. For the past two years, ...