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STATE BAR ANNOUNCES RESULTS FOR JULY 2005 CALIFORNIA BAR EXAMINATION

San Francisco, November 17, 2005 ? The State Bar of California's Committee of Bar Examiners reported today that 48.8 percent of the applicants passed the July 2005 General Bar Examination (GBX).

This rate is slightly higher than the 48.2 percent passing rate on the July 2004 GBX. If the 4,072 people who passed the July 2005 exam satisfy other requirements for admission, they will become members of the State Bar.

Preliminary statistical analyses show that of the 8,343 applicants who took the GBX, 70.8 percent were first-time takers. The passing rate for 5,909 first-time applicants was 63.7 percent overall.

The passing rate for the 2,434 applicants repeating the examination was 12.7 percent overall. Preliminary statistical analyses show the first-time and repeater percent passing the GBX (rounded to whole numbers) by law school type as follows:
School Type First-Timers Repeaters
California ABA 70% 18%
Out-of-State ABA 65% 12%
CA (but not ABA) Accredited 26% 7%
Correspondence 22% 7%
Unaccredited 8% 5%
All Others 39% 14%
All Applicants 64% 13%

The applicants not included in the above totals either were attorneys admitted in other states who either chose or were required to take the GBX, attorneys admitted in foreign jurisdictions, law students in the Law Office/Judge?s Chambers Study Program or law students who qualified to take the GBX through four years of law study.

More detailed statistics, including passing rates by individual law schools, will be made available in approximately four to six weeks and published on the State Bar?s Web site at www.calbar.ca.gov.

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Full post as published by A Girl Walks Into a Bar (Exam) on November 21, 2005 (boomark / email).