Here are the National average Bar Passage Rates from 2007 – Current day.
- 2007 ~ 67%
- February ~ 55%
- July ~ 73%
- 2008 ~ 71%
- February ~ 58%
- July ~ 76%
- 2009 ~ 68%
- February ~ 53%
- July ~ 74%
- 2010 ~ 68%
- February ~ 56%
- July ~ 73%
- 2011 ~ 69%
- February ~ 60%
- July ~ 73%
- 2012 ~ 67%
- February ~ 55%
- July ~ 71%
- 2013 ~ 68%
- February ~ 58%
- July ~ 72%
- 2014 ~ 64%
- February ~ 57%
- July ~ 67%
- 2015 ~ 59%
- February ~ 52%
- July ~ 63%
- 2016 ~ 58%
- February ~ 49%
- July ~ 62%
I cant be the only person who thinks it was strange that the national average sat on 67-68% for several years. Nor the only person who finds it questionable that in 3 years, it suddenly dropped 10%. Something is wrong, and it cannot just be the students level.
I cannot count a lot of the states (they don’t say how many students sat and passed), but for the 19 states I could count for February 2017 the average was 50.01%.