It’s too soon to pop the champagne, but early results from the July 2019 bar exam are largely positive. A majority of the jurisdictions that released results in September reported increases in their pass rates. That’s welcome news for legal educators, who have been struggling to reverse declining pass rates for the past five years.

Florida’s overall pass rate rose to 74% this year, up seven percentage points from the previous year. And while Florida is the only large jurisdiction to report results thus far, plenty of smaller states have also notched gains—though increases have not been across the board.