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As a subscriber you can listen to articles at work, in the car, or while you work out. Subscribe NowFollowing the appeals process, the overall pass rate for the July 2019 Indiana bar exam has risen to 3 percentage points to 65%, a repeat of the pre- and post-appeal pass rates for the July 2018 exam.
Applicants for the bar who nearly miss passing the exam with a score no lower than 255 are eligible to appeal. A team from the Indiana Board of Law Examiners will then review each appealed exam and make a final determination as to whether the applicant has passed or failed.
The appeals process has improved the preliminary passage rates, which were released earlier this month.
A total of 457 applicants took the July 2019 bar exam. After the appeals process, 360 first-time takers passed for a first-time pass rate of 76%, up 2 percentage points from the initial results.
Of the 97 repeat takers, 23% passed, which is the lowest passage rate since the 21% recorded for the July 2005 exam. The rate is also significant below the July 2018 and July 2017 repeat takers’ results of 35% and 32% respectively.
Successful applicants will be welcomed to the Indiana legal community at the Indiana Supreme Court’s Admission Ceremony Oct. 2 in the Sagamore Ballroom of the Indianapolis Convention Center.
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