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Some
strong
“will
they,
won’t
they”
tension
may
make
for
great
rom-com
foundation,
but
the
dynamic
is
far
from
what
you’d
expect
of
a
licensing
organization.
After
a
disastrous
experimental
February
rollout
led
the
California
Bar
back
to
an
orthodox
NBCE
test
administration,
future
test
takers
and
rubbernecking
out-of-state
voyeurs
want
to
know
how
the
Cali
Bar
will
handle
the
next
bar
exam.
Bloomberg
Law
has
coverage:
California
State
Bar
leaders
showed
deep
divisions
Thursday
on
the
future
of
the
bar
exam,
as
the
clock
ticks
for
them
to
decide
whether,
after
their
first
attempt
failed,
they’ll
try
again
to
develop
a
test
unique
to
the
Golden
State.The
bar
has
three
options,
staff
said:
Using
questions
developed
by
the
vendor
that
wrote
the
bulk
of
questions
on
the
February
test
temporarily,
as
a
“bridge”
to
creating
a
new
exam;
adopting
the
National
Conference
of
Bar
Examiners’
NextGen
test;
or
creating
a
new,
permanent
exam
that
could
be
streamlined
like
Nevada’s
shorter
100-question
multiple
choice
test
that
is
in
development.
A
couple
of
procedural
questions.
About
those
vendor
questions,
did
someone
remember
to
jot
down
which
questions
were
written
by
a
competent
evaluator
rather
than
a
large
language
model
prone
to
hallucinating
legal
solutions?
Because
they
didn’t
do
the
best
job
of
regulating
that
the
last
time
they
went
the
vendor
route.
The
second
question
applies
to
both
NCBE
adoption
and
the
R&D
route
of
making
a
new
test
from
new
cloth:
didn’t
all
of
this
start
because
the
California
Bar’s
budget
was
gunning
for
the
red?
It
looks
like
adopting
the
NCBE
would
cut
losses
and
put
them
back
on
track
to
bankruptcy.
A
new
test
has
some
promise,
but
even
if
you
were
to
look
past
the
associated
costs
of
developing
a
new
test,
it
isn’t
like
the
Cali
Bar
has
the
best
track
record
with
starting
over
from
scratch.
While
the
Committee
of
Bar
Examiners
have
some
time
to
weigh
their
options
moving
forward,
they
still
have
obstacles
to
face.
One
solution,
to
increase
the
bar
fee
by
$150
per
head
to
help
with
the
budget,
was
shot
down.
Whatever
they
ultimately
plan
to
do,
that
plan
has
to
then
be
approved
by
the
California
Supreme
Court.
Seems
like
a
rubber-stamping
situation
at
first
glance,
but
their
Supreme
Court
has
already
sent
them
back
to
the
drawing
board
in
recent
history.
Best
of
luck
to
the
folks
in
charge
of
the
Cali
Bar.
Godspeed
to
the
future
test
takers
that
have
to
deal
with
the
consequences.
California
Bar
Splinters
on
Bar
Exam’s
Future
as
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Needs
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Focus
On
Procedurals
Before
Administering
Bar
Replacement
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