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Posted by: Paul Burch on Feb 1, 2024

The National Conference of Bar Examiners said Tuesday it has replaced ExamSoft, the testing platform that suffered a series of tech problems, with Surpass Assessment, reports Reuters. The revamped bar exam is set to debut in July 2026. The switch to Surpass Assessment software comes after ExamSoft paid $2.1 million in 2015 to settle a lawsuit brought by bar exam takers who could not upload their test answers, an incident that became known as “barmageddon” in legal publications. ExamSoft's software also came under scrutiny during the pandemic when many states administered the exam remotely using laptop microphones and cameras to monitor for cheating.