One of many worst issues about how dangerous the February 2025 California Bar examination went was that no one was even shocked about how dangerous it turned out. From the poor budgeting that birthed the rationale for this fiasco to the rushed timeline and AI questions being handed off as rigorous testing expertise, the examination was a veritable comedy of errors. And when one thing this tragicomic occurs, what’s left however to be taught out of your errors? Former director of the state bar Leah Wilson shared her retrospective on the examination with Reuters:
The State Bar of California pursued too many adjustments without delay, setting the stage for the problem-plagued February lawyer licensing examination, the company’s former govt director mentioned.
Lots of the February examination’s issues stemmed from the choice to vary each the content material and supply system of the bar examination concurrently, Leah Wilson advised Reuters on Wednesday in an interview two days after stepping down because the state bar’s govt director.
Whereas late is healthier than by no means, executives put in place to sift by means of who’s and isn’t minimally competent sufficient to be a lawyer actually needs to be higher at challenge recognizing.
I would be the first to acknowledge hindsight is 20/20 — I lived by means of the SWAG period of style. However I can even say that we’re answerable for our personal discernment. Did carrying checkered skinny denims, a BAPE skully, and shutter shades appear to be a good suggestion on the time? Perhaps, however I had sufficient foresight to not base my total enterprise mannequin on a spur of the second evaluation of what was in vogue! I additionally didn’t have a enterprise on the time to threat or sufficient cash to be that swagged out, however that’s neither right here nor there.
There was a bunch of critique towards the Cali Bar’s determination to interrupt from NCBE taking place in actual time. Sure, they might inform by the ledger that issues had been unsustainable as they had been. And it isn’t like their prior examination supply system was with out fault. However there have been different choices on the time, like “let[ting] a well-established enterprise of bar examination specialists write a take a look at that might be used on-line, or restrict the deal to Kaplan-provided areas, or create a barely elongated timeline” simply to get the ball rolling. However hubris wouldn’t be hubris with out eschewing security measures. After one of many worst roll outs doable, California’s Supreme Courtroom ordered the Bar to make use of NCBE’s take a look at for the July bar. And whereas this simplifies issues for the July test-takers, it solely kicks the can down the highway for coping with the Bar’s price range burden. Hopefully the hindsight lesson of don’t change the whole lot without delay will assist them dig out of the outlet.
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