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The California Bar First Year Law Students' Examination (FYLSX, FYLSE or Baby Bar) has a dismal pass rate of just 20% on average. Are that many of us that bad at taking this exam? I don't think so. After my failure of the October 2012 exam, results came out in December, I decided to play with their fuzzy logic math. Now I am forced to question the value of the opportunity over all. Affordable Law Study: When I started researching distance education law study, I was obviously attracted to the affordable rates and the ability to study in the time that I had available. An entire law study program will earn you the education in law that you want, and if you are successful in the program, you are allowed to sit for the California Bar Exam. It sounds like a great opportunity, and it is. Affordable, flexible, what could be wrong? The failure rate: The pass rate for the California Bar can be researched from their own records available online. The statistics pages provide the numbers I discuss here. Another student had read my website about the sliding scale used in October of 2012, and then went to work on the hard numbers from 2007 through June of 2012, the most current statistics available. What they turned up (I won't reveal their name for their protection from potential retaliation, and the numbers are easy to find and do the math with), was a startling reality. There are two types of people taking the exam, first timers and repeaters. Statistically, the pass rate has always been about 20% overall and 25% of those are first timers and 16% are repeaters. Distance Education: When this exam first started, we did not have the Internet, people did not have social communications, rapid and massive sharing of information, but now we do. Not only do we have this, but it has grown exponentially over the years. I had attempted to attend brick and mortar schools to complete my bachelor's degree on three occasions, but my work went through class times and I had to withdraw every time. Eventually, I found Florida State University and a program that I could take completely online. I only went to the school for my graduation to meet - in person - my other classmates. I also completed my master's degree online from Amberton University (near Dallas, TX). I am living proof that education is effective at a distance. My upper division GPA is 3.56. My master's degree is a 3.57. I might not be the brightest bulb on the tree, but I am far from a complete idiot. With the invention and popularity of the Internet, especially in quality education, people can become smarter, and we do, using the tools that the Internet provides. Blackboard is a tool used by many schools. Florida State University used it when I was there and the law school I am studying with uses it. It is a popular tool for online education and it works well. The reality is that, over time, because of the opportunities available to us to learn, we should see more people passing the exam. A host of companies exist to prepare students for this exam, and they have been around for decades, yet, no matter how hard students try, no matter how much preparation they do, 80% will continue to fail - every single time. Why do 80% of FYLSX examinees fail?: The numbers don't lie. There is no reasonably plausible explanation for why a rock solid 80% of students taking this exam fail - none. In fact, if the distance education law schools continued to produce 80% failures, how on earth could the California Bar justify allowing them to remain in business? The simple fact is that they could not! If the California Bar approves the distance education schools - they do - and these schools continue to produce students who fail - every single time - the FYLSX with an 80% failure rate, then the California Bar is doing something radically wrong, aren't they? For the October 2012 exam, on the essay portion of the exam, if you scored a raw score of 265, the "scale" bumped up your score by 48 points - which is nice. If your raw score was a 235, the scale was 233, a LOSS of two points, but if you scored 230, it scaled to 220, a loss of ten points! It gets worse, fast. The lower you score, the more you got punished for it. On the multiple choice questions (MCQ's), the more you got right, the more they took away from you! If you scored a perfect 100 points, you should have earned 400 points by the scale, but this was not so for October. If you scored a perfect 100 points, it scaled out to a 365, a LOSS of 35 points. If you scored a 72, it scaled out to 271 which ends up being a loss of 17 points. The lower you scored, the less they punished you, but the lower your score, the closer you are to flat out failing anyway. So, what's the story?: Here is the cold hard fact on the California FYLSX. You are not being tested on what you know about the law or how good you are on the exam, you are being manipulated by the sliding scale which will only pass 20% of those who take it at any time. In order to pass the exam, you not only have to be better than the law you are being tested on, you have to be better than about 82% of the other people taking the same exam! It is a bad game, you have, as a first time taker of the FYLSX a 75% probability of failing the exam. A repeater has an 84% probability of failure (based on the California Bar's own statistics). On average, 703 people (total) will sit for the FYLSX, 142 will pass, 561 will fail, and this is predetermined by the sliding scale, which is manipulated for each administration. Of those, 330 will be first time takers, 82 will pass, 247 will fail (on average). 374 repeaters will sit for the exam, 60 will pass, 314 will fail (again, on average). It costs the average student $566 for hand writer's and an additional $139 for those using laptops ($705), plus travel and lodging costs, to take the exam. This means that the minimum gross amount of monies collected by the California Bar is around $398,464 per exam administration, or $796,928 per year. More than three quarters of a million dollars (gross) just for offering the exam, and the sliding scale limits the number of those who pass it. The odds are against us when we walk in the door, and there is nothing we can do about it. The rules of the game are clear, we have to write pure perfection on every aspect of the exam, but there is a serious problem. Barrier to Entry: This is a term from business. If you have an established business, and you want to prevent competition, you do everything you can to make it as difficult as possible for the competition to enter the field. It is my personal opinion that the California Bar is using the FYLSX as one step in a barrier to entry scenario. The numbers do not lie. Look specifically at the repeater numbers. Over time, as people take an exam - especially the same format, they get used to it. If they take their efforts and analyze what they did wrong, they can make improvements on their previous performance and apply what they learned to the next exam. This would indicate that repeaters should, over time, have a higher pass rate, not a lower one. The scale is consistent that 84% of repeaters fail, every time. This is the specific number that almost proves the theory all by itself. Preparation courses, analysis of previous attempts, corrections to past errors, these things would all tend to make examinees better over time, not consistent. In fact, the consistent percentage of pass / fail rates is the number one indicator that the California Bar is indeed manipulating the percentages of students it allows to continue in distance education programs. The Solution: Painfully, there is none. The California Bar is allowed to make their own rules, but in the interest of honesty and fair dealings with the general public, they should provide much more transparency to the processes which they employ that seem to be designed to limit the number of examinees who are allowed to move forward in their study of law. There is nothing that I can do about this right now. All I can do is try to be better than 84% of the other repeaters in June 2013. If I am successful, I am allowed to continue with my law study program. I leave this as an open research project for now - if you will excuse me, I have some studying to do. Why I will Take the FYLSX Until I Pass: My entire program, including a few attempts at the FYLSX is far less expensive than just one year of a traditional ABA accredited law school program. It is actually less than one year of the local state run law school's part time program. In the end, this is a game with a set of rules that we have to follow. I honestly do not think the FYLSX is all that difficult, I do, however, think that it is very tricky. Those who figure it all out sooner, pass. The rest of us just have to keep on taking it until we pass, or give up. There are preparation programs available to assist us in gearing up for the exam, even simulated FYSLX's. These are not cheap, and the more personal attention you desire, the more expensive it is going to be. The FYLSX costs $566 to hand write and $705 to use a laptop computer. Add to that travel, hotel and ground transportation, and it runs me around $1200 or so. This is probably in the realm of what a solid prep program might cost me - for what I would want. Taking the actual exam is the only real way for me to understand how well I did, and what I am missing. In June 2012, I just blew the exam, for October 2012, I prepped hard for it and still failed, but my score jumped a significant amount. The California Bar returns our essays to us. I will be seeking professional analysis of what I did wrong and advice on how to correct it. I will also continue to prepare as I have for the October 2012 exam. So long as I continue to improve, can analyze what I did, and take corrective actions, I will pass the FYLSX, the question is not "if," but "when?" UPDATE: On my website (find that in my profile), I go into many of the fine details of the exam. For the October 2012 exam, I made a glaringly obvious error. Had I not made that error, and had I been slightly neater in the way I wrote the essays, I think I would have easily have passed in October 2012! In June 2012, I scored a 441. In October 2012, I increased the scaled rate to a 505. Based on my best guesstimate of my performance, and the corrective actions I am taking for the June 2013 FYLSX, I believe that I should score around 575 points or so - and pass the FYLSX in June 2013. Still, if not, I'd go back again in October 2013 for the fourth attempt - the entire program is still far less expensive than even one year of my local state law school's part time program! I will update this story with my June 2013 results in August 2013, when they release the June results. Here is that update from the June 2013 results - I failed for the third time and am already set to return for the October 2013 FYLSX. I failed, but I met some serious goals that I wanted to meet in case I did fail. None of my scores had been below a 60, and one of them was a 70. A 70 does not seem to be a number that is impressive - but consider that a 280 (like four 70's on the essays) and a 70 on the MCQs passes the FYLSX 100% of the time and you can see why I like 70! I also scored ten points higher than my minimum "hoped for" score if I did fail. In fact, had I scored 79 points on the MCQs, I would have passed the exam - and I was shooting for an 80 or higher. My website has the fine details, and the efforts going forward to October 2013! |
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