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PA Bulletin, Doc. No. 00-980

THE COURTS

Standards for Passing the Pennsylvania Bar Examination; No. 246; Supreme Court Rules; Doc. No. 1

[30 Pa.B. 2905]

Order

Per Curiam:

   And Now, to wit, this 22nd day of May, 2000, it is hereby ordered that:

   Commencing with the Pennsylvania Bar Examination to be administered in July of 2001, and until further Order of this Court, a successful candidate for admission to the Bar of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in addition to the other examination requirements approved by prior Orders of this Court which are not superseded hereby, must attain a total combined scaled score of at least 272 on the combined scores of the Multistate Bar Examination and the essay portion of the bar examination. There will no longer be a separate passing requirement for the essay and MBE portions of the bar examination. The essay portion of the bar examination will be weighted 55% and the Multistate Bar Examination portion will be weighted 45%.

[Pa.B. Doc. No. 00-980. Filed for public inspection June 9, 2000, 9:00 a.m.]


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