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PUBLIC NOTICE OF MASSACHUSETTS BAR EXAM RESULTS
  February 2012 Exam

 

Official Result Notification

 

 

OFFICIAL RESULT NOTIFICATION: Official result letters are mailed to each applicant.  Please open these letters immediately as they contain one of the following pieces of time-sensitive, important information:

1.

If you passed both the written and character portions of the bar exam, a Formal Ceremony Invitation Form and Response Form (if applicable, due to the Clerk's Office by June 1, 2012) will be included with your result letter.

2.

If you passed the written portion of the bar exam only, you will receive a letter indicating one of the following:

 ·     The Board requires that you appear before them and you will receive notice of the scheduled character interview.

 ·     The Board requires additional information and you will receive a notice detailing the requested information that must be submitted to the Board before it can take any further action on your petition for admission.
 

3.

If you were unsuccessful, time-sensitive instructions for retaking the exam and obtaining your essay answers will be included with your result letter.

 
Results from the February 2012 exam were mailed to applicants on April 27, 2012.  The names of those who  passed the written portions of the bar examination will be publicly posted in every county clerk's office pursuant to Supreme Judicial Court Rule 3:01, Section 4.

 






Statistics

 



A total of 644 applicants sat for the February 2012 bar examination, of whom 390  (60.6%) passed.  There were 384 first time takers, of whom 275 (71.6%) passed the exam.  The statistics are as follows:

Total Applicants
Taking exam for
 Number taking
 Number passing
 Percentage passing
First time
 384
 275
 71.6%
Second time
 166
 96
 57.8%
Third time takers
 45
 15
 33.3%
Fourth time takers
 11
 0
 0.0%
Fifth time or more
 38
 4
 10.5%
TOTAL ALL EXAMINEES
 644
 390
 60.6%

To view results and statistics by law school, please click here.   
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Exam Passers

 

 

The applicants listed below have passed the written portion of the February 2012 bar examination (under Rule 3:01), which is one part of the necessary qualifications for admission to the Massachusetts Bar.  If no objection is made, they may be recommended to the Supreme Judicial Court for admission:

 









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