California will return to the NCBE's Multistate Bar Examination by July 2025, after an independent bar exam that failed dramatically. The recent February exam faced multiple issues, including poorly crafted questions and confusion in administration, exacerbated by last-minute changes and logistical challenges. Although AI was involved in the question development, it was minor and overseen by experts. The Supreme Court responded to the exam's failures by lowering the passing score and canceling remote testing, raising concerns about efficiency and costs for applicants in the future.
In a decision announced late last week, the California Supreme Court ordered the state to ditch its newly independent exam and return to the NCBE's Multistate Bar Examination (MBE) for at least the July 2025 administration.
The February exam was an absolute disaster... the state's in-house test creation team had a fraction of the time and resources needed, the administration process proved buggy and incoherent.
AI played a vague role in developing a few questions... meaning it probably just brainstormed smoother phrasings. And everything got checked by subject matter experts.
The state Supreme Court responded by lowering the passing score retroactively to 534 and had already declared that remote testing was not ready for primetime.
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