One of many worst issues about how unhealthy the February 2025 California Bar examination went was that no person was even shocked about how unhealthy 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 know-how, the examination was a veritable comedy of errors. And when one thing this tragicomic occurs, what’s left however to study 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 directly, setting the stage for the problem-plagued February lawyer licensing examination, the company’s former government director stated.
Most 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 government 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 ought to be higher at concern recognizing.
I would be the first to acknowledge hindsight is 20/20 — I lived by means of the SWAG period of trend. However I may even say that we’re answerable for our personal discernment. Did carrying checkered skinny denims, a BAPE skully, and shutter shades look like a good suggestion on the time? Possibly, however I had sufficient foresight to not base my whole 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 danger 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 occurring 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 exam delivery system was without fault. However there have been different choices on the time, like “let[ting] a well-established business of bar exam experts write a test that could be used online, or limit the deal to Kaplan-provided locations, or create a slightly 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 attainable, California’s Supreme Courtroom ordered the Bar to use NCBE’s test 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 finances burden. Hopefully the hindsight lesson of don’t change every little thing directly will assist them dig out of the opening.
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