News outlets are reporting that preliminary results show that only about 50% of those who took the Israeli Bar Exam last week successfully passed the test. (See the hebrew article at The Marker here.) The average score was a 64 out of 100, and the passing grade is a 65.
Is this the Bar Association's way of thinning the herd and dealing with the problem of too many lawyers?
Does an overly difficult exam violate students' basic right to freedom of occupation?
The students who took the exam are weighing their options, including appealing the fairness of some of the question, suing the Bar Association, and protesting.
There are other countries with harder exams. The bar passage rate last year in Japan was 25% and two law schools in that country reported that none of their graduates passed the exam. See the article from the ABA Journal here. And I've seen some people writing that Brazil's bar passage rate is even lower but I didn't see a reliable source for that claim.
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