TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Kate Prince on Dec 14, 2021

Tennessee Bar Exam results show that 720 applicants — 599 first-time test takers and 121 repeat candidates — sat for the July exam. Of the first-time test takers, 70.95% passed — down from July 2020’s passage rate of 82.36%. For repeat test takers, 19.83% passed — a decline from 36.36% last year. Vanderbilt Law School had the highest passage rate of first-time test takers at 91.89%, followed by the University of Tennessee College of Law with 90.12%, Belmont University College of Law at 88.75%, University of Memphis School of Law at 69.41%, Lincoln Memorial University Duncan School of Law at 53.13% and Nashville School of Law at 46.94%. The Board of Law Examiners has all exam data here.