National Average Score for February Multistate Bar Exam Drops - Articles

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Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Apr 15, 2022

After increasing to 134 in 2021, the national mean scaled score for the February Multistate Bar Examination has decreased to 132.6, which was the same as it was in 2020, the ABA Journal reports. And the number of test takers continued a downward trend — from 19,122 in 2020 to 16,759 in 2021 to 16,504 this year. Rosemary Reshetar, director of assessment and research for the National Conference of Bar Examiners, urged caution about reading too much into this year’s February scores. “There hasn’t been a consistent trend in February MBE results for the past several years,” she said.