Pennsylvania’s bar passage rate dropped to the lowest it has been in the last five years with the July 2012 bar examination, and a few law schools had the passage rates of their graduates drop by a few percentage points.

The passage rate for the July 2012 Pennsylvania bar examination was 77.32 percent, while the passage rate for the July 2011 examination was 79.81 percent, according to the Pennsylvania Board of Law Examiners.