Graduates of New York law schools who took the July bar exam—the first time the Uniform Bar Examination (UBE) was administered—improved the state’s pass rate by 4 percentage points, to 82 percent, bouncing back from its lowest rate in a decade.

There were 3,120 graduates from New York’s 15 law schools sitting for the exam for the first time this year, which is 171 fewer than in 2015 and 640 fewer than in 2014. The exam was conducted on July 26 and 27.

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