After Exam Fiasco, California State Bar Staff Recommend Reverting To In-person Exams

After California's bar exams were plagued last week with technical problems, the State Bar of California is recommending that the agency return to in-person tests as it scrutinizes whether the vendor behind the new testing system met the obligations of its contract. From a report: "Based on the administration of the February Bar Exam, staff cannot recommend going forward with Meazure Learning," Donna Hershkowitz, chief of admissions for the State Bar, wrote to the agency's Board of Trustees in a staff memo, referring to the vendor. Instead, she wrote, staff recommend reverting to in-person testing for the next round of exams in July.

The State Bar's 13-member board, which is scheduled to meet March 5, will ultimately decide on plans for the July bar exam and remedies for test takers who faced problems. In a statement Monday, the State Bar said it is "closely scrutinizing whether Meazure Learning met its contractual obligations" in administering the February State Bar exam and will be "actively working with its psychometrician and other stakeholders to determine the full scope of necessary remediation measures for February 2025 bar exam test takers."

Incompetence? Inconceivable!

[TheMiddleRoad]

My friend took the bar and was seated next to a wall where, on the other side, a band was practicing. Good times. He passed on his second try, but it fucked him for life.

By how much did California's GDP increase?

[sabbede]

The number of lawyers in California did not just increase. I can't see how that would be anything but good.

And okay, it wouldn't have increased the State's GDP any, but it wouldn't have decreased it. Which, adding lawyers does.

If anything, they should leave the thing broken and keep using it. End result - fewer lawyers, happier and wealthier people.

Meazure Learning?

[MDMurphy]

That name would have been enough for me to look for another testing company.

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[unrtst]

I pased there speling test with out problem.

Uh oh

[CEC-P]

I sure hope someone isn't motivated and skilled enough to sue them over...OHHHH NOOOO.

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[XXongo]

I sure hope someone isn't motivated and skilled enough to sue them over...OHHHH NOOOO.

They'd like to... but they didn't pass the bar exam.

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[BigFire]

There's already a class action suit.

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[PPH]

"Psychometrician"??

Hey. It's California [pinimg.com].

RTO Strikes Again

[kc-guy]

The Dishwasher Loading Principle strikes again-- if you do something you don't want to do badly enough, they might stop asking you to do it.

lmao what??

[Anonymous Coward]

they AREN'T doing in-person bar exams right now?? what the fuck.

They never should have stopped doing in-person bar exams. I had fucking jury duty a week after the delta variant started spreading. If I had no choice whether to show up to court so some dickhead with a DUI could exercise his right to a trial notwithstanding the evidence he was twice the legal limit, then would-be lawyers could have showed up for an optional test -- if they were afraid they could have postponed 6 months.

At any rate, since the w

Meazured Learning ....

[kellin]

Very unmeasured.

I know someone who literally just took the Bar exam last week in Burbank. The whole fiasco with this company made the California Bar either issue refunds or a free retake.

Kick the computer once in a while

[Fons_de_spons]

Sometimes computers aren't worth the trouble. Pen and paper just work. The resolution is even higher than 4k I guess. ;-)