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Originally Posted by blankall

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.

The California and BC Bar Exams are softer and limper, more like pool noodles than 'Bars' per se.