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Category: Virginia Bar Exam

  • Virginia Bar Exam results from February 2020 posted – historically low pass rate

    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.

  • 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!

  • Virginia February 2019 bar exam results released

    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.

  • July 2018 Virginia Bar Exam is Over

    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.

  • Virginia Bar Exam Results for February 2018 are posted

    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.

  • 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 (more…)

  • July 2017 Bar exams are over (VA breakdown)

    The Virginia and DC bar exams for July 2017 are officially history. Things seemed to go relatively smoothly in both locations this time around. DC broke the groups up into a few rooms so that may have helped.

    On the Virginia bar exam we saw the following subjects tested: VA Procedure, Fed Procedure, Criminal, Local Govt, Domestic Relations, Real Property, Equity, Sales, Personal property, Creditor’s Rights and agency. So, again, no Wills or Trusts this time around, is this becoming a pattern of sorts?

    Congratulations to everyone for sticking through it. Results for both DC and Virginia should be out sometime in mid to late October. Until then, enjoy the rest of your summer!

  • Virginia Bar Exam Results from February 2017 are posted

    The Feb 2017 Virginia Bar Exam results have been posted at the VBBE website here.

    Looks like the overall pass rate was 53.19% , with first time test takers doing pretty good at 70.71%. Congratulations to George Mason University School of Law grads for having the highest overall pass rate at 92.86% and also for 100% of their first time takers passing. Good job to William and Mary and U. Richmond first time takers as well achieving a 100% pass rate. And of course, congratulations to everyone who passed!

    If you did not pass, don’t despair. Take a couple days off and then think about the plan you used to study along with how much you studied. Do you feel you did enough? Maybe too much? Maybe not enough? The Virginia bar exam is one of (if not the most) difficult bars in the country and requires well laid out study strategies.

  • 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.

  • Virginia July 2016 Bar Exam results posted and statistics

    The results for the July 2016 Virginia Bar Exam have been posted. The overall pass rate was 73% with nearly 78% of first time takers passing the exam. UVA gets the top prize with the highest overall pass rate of over 92%, which is spectacular, so kudos to the Cavaliers!

    The admission ceremony is going to be at the convention center in downtown Richmond at 12:30 p.m. on Wednesday, December 7, 2016. This is a very nice ceremony where they convene a special session of the VA Supreme Court. Dress nicely and invite your family/friends to enjoy the special day with you.

    Congratulations again to everyone who passed!