JULY 2001 BAR EXAM RESULTS
The State Board of Law Examiners congratulates all the candidates who have passed the July 2001 New York State bar examination. Although every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of this list, each applicant must rely on the official notification (via U.S. Mail) as to whether he or she has passed the examination.
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The State Board of Law Examiners has completed grading the papers written by applicants for admission to the Bar at the examination held on July 24 - 25, 2001. Of the 9194 applicants examined, 6475 passed the examination. Of the 5136 applicants taking the examination for the first time, 4089 passed.
Each of the 5773 successful applicants who were certified for admission must appear before the Committee on Character and Fitness appointed by the Appellate Division in each Judicial District of the State to be examined as to his or her character and fitness.
The remaining 702 applicants who were successful on the bar examination will be certified for admission upon receipt by the Board of proof that they have successfully completed the Multistate Professional Responsibility Examination as required by the Rules of the New York State Court of Appeals for the Admission of Attorneys and Counselors at law.
IMPORTANT PRESS RELEASE
NOVEMBER 30, 2001 - FOR RELEASE ON RECEIPT
The New York State Board of Law Examiners today announced revised results of the July 24-25, 2001 bar examination. On November 21, 2001, the Board announced that 6475 of the 9194 applicants who took the examination passed. The Board has now discovered that there was a computer programming error in the computation of the final scores of certain applicants. The Board has revised the scoring of the examination and is today announcing that 6664 applicants passed the July bar examination.
In accordance with the present Board Rule, after an initial computation of the scores, all the written answers of every applicant whose initial total score is within ten points above or below the pass mark of 660 are reread by a different grader of the same question. The two resulting scaled scores are then averaged, the total score recomputed, and the result becomes the applicant’s final examination score, from which there is no appeal.
It has now been determined that due to a computer program error, the results of the two readings of the written portion of the examinations of applicants who fell within the reread range on the July 2001 bar examination were not averaged. To remedy this error, the Board has determined, for this examination only, that it will pass all applicants who achieved a passing score on either the initial grading or the regrading, thus demonstrating minimum competence on one reading of the examination.
Scores for every applicant have been rechecked, and any applicant whose final result changed is being notified by overnight delivery service. A revised list of successful applicants is being posted on the Board’s Website immediately.
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Successful candidates by department listings: