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State Bar Of California Log In In San Jose
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How many times can you take the California Bar Exam? There is no limit to the number of times you can take the California bar exam other than the fact that there are only two administrations per year, one in February and one in July. Test takers may take the California bar exam as many times as they choose.
View your application progress through your Admission Status Screen. Please contact us at admissions@calbar.ca or call 800-843-9053 if you have satisfied a requirement but it is not reflected in your Admission Status Screen.
The Contact Center is closed on State Bar holidays. To speak with a representative, please call 800-843-9053 if you are in California. If you are calling from out-of-state, please call 415-538-2000.
The California Bar Examination is administered twice each year, once in February and once in July. Most law school graduates take the exam in July. The exam is taken between the hours of a.m. and p.m. over a two-day period.
The Supreme Court of California approved the State Bar's requested modifications to the California Bar Exam, beginning with the February 2025 administration.
Minimum: About 1/6 of a year in most cases. Most law students in the US graduate in late May and then take the bar exam in the third week of July. A few US states permit students to take the bar exam before they graduate from law school, as long as they have completed all of the requirements for their degree.
Bar Exam Pass Rates by State: Highest to Lowest Missouri: 86.3% New Mexico: 85.71% New York: 83.92% Montana: 82.61% Utah: 82.61% Oregon: 82.55% Nebraska: 81.67% Kansas: 81.51%
Most states allow 2-4 attempts of the bar exam, but about 35 states, including California, New York, and Florida, don't have any limits on the number of times you can take the bar.
For California ABA-accredited law schools, the pass rate for first time test-takers was 81%, up 5 percentage points from 2023. The State Bar of California reported today that 53.8 percent of applicants passed the July 2024 General Bar Examination (GBX).
California's General Bar Exam pass rate of 53.8 percent is up from last year's July pass rate of 51.5 percent, and 2022's July pass rate of 52.4 percent. Preliminary statistical analyses show that of the 8,291 applicants who completed the GBX, 67.7 percent were first-time takers.
