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The overall pass rate for the July 2023 bar exam in Indiana jumped to 70%, up two percentage points from last year’s July exam and marking the highest non-pandemic pass rate since 2015.
According to statistics from the Indiana Office of Admissions and Continuing Education, there were 408 test takers for the most recent exam, including 341 first-time takers, who had a pass rate of 77%. The 67 repeat takers had a pass rate of 33%.
The names of the people who passed the July 2023 bar exam were released Wednesday, along with the statistics.
The overall pass rate spiked to 78% in August 2020, when the exam was an open-book, remote test because of the pandemic and faulty exam software. That exam consisted only of short-answer and essay questions.
The following summer, Indiana first administered the Uniform Bar Exam in July 2021. The pass rate that July was 69%, dipping slightly to 68% in July 2022
Prior to the pandemic and before implementing the UBE, Indiana’s July pass rates changed little from year to year, staying in the mid-60% range from 2016 until 2020. Before then, overall pass rates rarely went below 70% for July exams going back to 2002 and occasionally rose to 80% or higher.
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