The group of law school graduates taking the Pennsylvania bar exam for the first time this February was the smallest since 2003, continuing a national decline in the number of students sitting for and passing the bar. The 74.1 percent passage rate was the highest for the February exam since 2012′s rate of 74.5 percent, according to statistics from the Pennsylvania Board of Law Examiners.
Just 263 students took the exam this February, compared with 318 in 2015 and 344 in 2014. The February exam traditionally has a much smaller applicant pool than the July exam.
