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Originally Posted by Titan2
I, for one, support this idea. Make it impossible. Then we can corner the industry and have it all to ourselves until AI makes us all redundant.
I have often wondered how hard their bar exams actually are. I imagine a lot of the failures are from people who went to 'bottom-tier' law schools, didn't prep, etc.
I am no rocket surgeon, but I found the bar exams pretty easy overall. Having said that, they are just establishing the lowest common denominator, which enables them to say, 'oh, so smart,' so the government can look like it is regulating the industry.
I know the SEC courses for the financial industry were harder, in a different way, because they relied on more 'tricks' than the Canadian ones, but the Canadian ones are no joke. Having said that, 60% to pass seems awfully low to be handling people's retirements.
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In BC, the "bar exam" is a course called PLTC, which is a full 10 week course. There are about 6 separate tests involved, with two major written ones that are equivalent to what other jurisdictions call "writing the bar" and 4 skill assessment. You're allowed to fail up to two of the skills assessment and then retry them without having to redo the whole course. You need to pass the two written exams.
The written exams are open book and you only needed a 60% to pass. I found that fairly easy, having taken law school. The failure rate is actually around 25-30% now, and growing. There's been a massive influx of foreign law students and there's now more law schools in BC. The quality of the people taking the test is likely going down leading to more fails.
The California bar exam has a fail rate of 45%, but in California you do not need to go to law school to take the bar exam, and the USA has a much wider range, in terms of quality, of their law schools. There are about 40 law schools in California, and some are known to be awful.
Anyways, I doubt the California bar is that much harder than the BC bar, but they likely have far more lower end applicants.