preLaw Magazine - Winter 2008 - (Page 14) said Associate Dean Michael L. Coyne. That allows for familiarity and comfort and demonstrates to students that the school is willing to invest in their exam preparation. Students who don’t pass MSL’s comparison course must repeat it. “It made sense to require a competency check at the end of the process,” Coyne said. MSL began offering the course when it first opened nearly 20 years ago and was criticized for it at first, he said. Yet as students struggle with exam preparation, as commercial bar exam courses get more and more expensive and since the ABA has done away with its prohibition of for-credit bar prep courses, other schools are following suit. “A law school owes its graduates the proper preparation for the hardest test they’ll ever take,” Coyne said. “Schools should be doing everything they can to make sure students are able to enter the workforce as quickly as possible.” Top schools with increased bar exam results Bar pass rates Schools Appalachian School of Law, VA University of The District of Columbia, DC Regent University School of Law, VA Oklahoma City University School of Law, OK University of Maine School of Law, ME Dayton School of Law, OH University of Montana School of Law, MT The John Marshall Law School, IL Summer 02 30% 31% 47% 65% 62% 62% 73% 56% Appalachian School of Law Many law schools across the country are taking unusual steps to help their students pass the bar exam. We compiled a list of data showing which schools have stepped up in bar passage rates over a three-year period using the most recent bar exam data. Bar pass rates Summer 05 68% 55% 71% 88% 84% 81% 91% 74% % 3-year increase 38.00% 24.00% 24.00% 23.00% 22.00% 19.00% 18.00% 18.00% 14 preLaw http://www.albanylaw.edu
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