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Virginia and DC Bar Exam Results for July 2019

The July 2019 bar exam results for DC and VA have been posted.

DC had 1,799 total applicants take the bar exam with an overall pass rate of 69%. We are continuing to see a significantly higher trending pass rate for DC now that they have adopted the UBE and have a much larger pool of applicants. The UBE pass rate was an even higher 71%.

In Virginia, we had an overall pass rate of 75.20% with over 80% (80.04%) of first time takers passing the exam. The biggest congrats goes out to UVA with the highest overall and first time taker rate, both landing at 90.24%!

To everyone who passed, a well earned congratulations and pat on the back. For everyone that did not pass this time, don’t be discouraged. Take a look at how you studied and reflect back on what you felt worked and didn’t work. Which section gave you the most trouble on the actual exam, the MBE or the essay day? Was time an issue? Did you simply not know the law? Good luck in February!

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VA and DC bar exam results for July 2018 are posted

Virginia and Washington DC released their bar exam results the same week for the first time I can remember. Here are the stats and my thoughts on each one.

For Virginia, 71% of all test takers passed the exam with over 76% of first time takers passing. Regent University had the highest overall pass rate at a very impressive 94% followed closely by

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Tutoring is full for the July 2017 bar exam

My roster is now full for the summer 2017 bar exam and do not anticipate filling all waitlisted slots for the July 2017 bar exam. If you have already emailed me I will respond back and let you know if you are on the waitlist and if I will be able to take you on. In DC news, DC results letters started coming in this weekend so if you have not received it yet, it should be today or tomorrow hopefully at the latest.

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DC Bar Exam Results for February 2017

The Committee on Admissions posted the February 2017 DC Bar Exam results on Friday. The overall pass rate was a very low 46% with first time test takers doing better but still barely half with a 53% pass rate. 496 total applicants took the exam this past February, showing a continued increase since DC join the UBE program. For those that did not pass, the review of answers will be on June 9th, so be sure and attend. For everyone that did pass, congratulations and be sure and sign up for the mandatory class, details will be in your acceptance letter. Full details and pass list are here.

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VA and DC February 2017 bar exams are done

Hope everyone survived the exams and is now enjoying the nice DC area weather. The exams were about as expected, Virginia tested Property, Torts, Virginia and Federal Procedure, Criminal, Wills and UCC2. DC had a memo and Power of Attorney Motion for the MPTs and the MEEs were Contracts, Family law (conflicts), Property, Agency/Partnership, Corporations and Trusts.

Despite the changes the MBE was about the same as always, which is to say it was tough. Civ Pro looked about the same and the balance of questions with the new topics and larger number of experimental questions seemed to blend in pretty well with the older exams, so they didn’t go too crazy from what I can tell. Curious because there are many variants of experimental questions given so I still need to talk to more people about their experiences to see if there were bigger changes that I haven’t heard of yet.

I will post about anticipated results date when I hear more, but figure mid to late April for DC and VA and May 5th for Maryland.

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DC July 2016 Bar Exam results posted – UBE pass rate through the roof

DC has posted the July 2016 bar exam results here. The most interesting thing is the pass rate, which is the highest I have ever seen by a long shot. First time test takers had a pass rate of 71% with the overall pass rate being 62%. So, we had a total of 684 people take the exam and 422 passed. This is around double the number of people taking the exam and the pass rate is about 50% higher than usual as well. Congratulations to everyone who passed! If you did not pass,

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