Category: Virginia Bar Exam

Virginia has posted the results for the Feb 2020 bar exam here. The results are some of the lowest pass rates I have ever seen for the Virginia exam, even for a February administration.

Overall the pass rate was just over half at 57.83%, with about 2/3rds of first time test takers achieving a pass rate of 64.23%. This is a low pass rate for Virginia, as it is normally about 10% higher in February. I won’t speculate as to the low pass rate, but hopefully the VBBE has looked into this as more and more states are canceling their July 2020 bar exams every week.

Congratulations goes out to the University of Virginia for having 100% of all test takers pass the Feb 2020 Virginia bar exam! That is an incredible showing. And of course, congratulations to everyone who passed. If you did not pass, take a look at how you studied and where you feel you fell short on the exam. The questions and sample answers are posted on the W&M website as well as the VBBE website, links are in the link section here as well.

Results have been posted for the Feb 2019 Virginia bar exam here. Go check out the results and be sure and look at both pass lists. The numbers look ok for a February exam with some schools doing quite excellent.

The overall pass rate was 62.64% with first time takers doing a little better at 68.66%. Big kudos go out to UVA for both winning the NCAA and having a 100% pass rate for ALL test takers on this exam! Props also go out to Liberty for a 100% pass rate for all takers and to Appalachian School of law for 100% of their first time takers passing the exam.

The swearing in ceremony will be on June 5th, get dressed in your best suits and enjoy the celebration! For those of you waiting for DC results, hopefully early May will bring us results but after the pass list debacle last time it may be more delayed this time around, fingers crossed.

After a few weeks off to decompress and enjoy the summer, decided to do a little recap of the July 2018 Virginia bar exam. The morning section was pretty typical, Crim law, Wills, Property/Corporations, Fed Civ Pro, Sales and some VA Civ Pro as always. The afternoon was a little more funky, with more civ pro, creditors rights, PR, and domestic relations. Overall a straightforward, fair yet tough Virginia bar exam as we have come to expect. The MBE was the same as in the past couple of years, no major changes, still the usually favorites and the difficulty/spread of the questions is in line with previous exams. I’ll add a new post when the results are posted in October, until then enjoy the rest of the summer and congratulations to everyone on getting through the exam.

The VBBE has posted the Feb 2018 Virginia Bar Exam results. The pass percentages are a little discouraging for first time takers with only 60% passing. The overall pass rate was just below 50%. Congratulations to the students from Regent University with the highest pass rate at almost 82% with UVA coming in a close second place at 75%. I felt this exam was slightly harder than usual but this is usually accounted for with the scale and other factors, but the properly prepared students passed. Here is a link to the full results.

For those of you who passed, congratulations! Your hard work paid off and you are now Virginia licensed attorneys. The swearing in ceremony is Wednesday June 6, 2018 at 10:30AM in Richmond. It’s a great ceremony and well worth attending with friends and family. For those of you who didn’t pass, do not be discourage. Instead, re-evaluate your approach to studying and determine what you could and should do differently next time.

Hoping for the DC results at the first week in May.