Bar Exam Pass Rates
Washburn Law faculty take an active role in preparing students for the bar exam:
- All students are invited to a workshop on passing the bar exam in which we discuss the keys to success and have recent graduates speak about what they did to successfully prepare themselves.
- All students are invited and encouraged to participate in our bar essay writing program. Students receive 5-6 hours of classroom instruction in writing bar essays and then write three practice bar essays on which they get personalized feedback.
- All students are invited to participate in a program in which we give bar exam discounts to students who take a certain number of practice bar multiple choice questions.
- All students are invited to take a Remedies course, taught by Professor Michael Hunter Schwartz, in which they are required to write three practice bar essays, take 200 practice bar multiple choice questions as mentioned above, and take one practice performance exam that is discussed as a class. In the Remedies course, students also learn about bar exam time and stress management, reading and learning from bar outlines and lectures, and memorization.
| First-Time WU Takers |
All WU Takers |
Overall Pass Rate |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| July 2009 | |||
| Kansas | 88.8% | 84.6% | 83.0% |
| Missouri | 93.8% | 85.7% | 90.3% |
| February 2009 | |||
| Kansas | 78.3% | 70.4% | 80.0% |
| Missouri | 87.5% | 76.2% | 76.2% |
| July 2008 | |||
| Kansas | 92.3% | 91.5% | 86.0% |
| Missouri | 83.3% | 75.8% | 90.7% |
| February 2008 | |||
| Kansas | 81.5% | 77.8% | 87.0% |
| Missouri | 94.4% | 81.0% | 76.7% |
| July 2007 | |||
| Kansas | 92.2% | 89.2% | 88.0% |
| Missouri | 90.9% | 83.3% | 88.6% |
