Brilliant! The profession in which writing is absolutely vital is considering doing away with the writing component on the bar exam:
The first stage of the solicitors’ ‘super-exam’ could be entirely multiple choice after a piloting exercise found that the written section could place members of ethnic minorities at a disadvantage, the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has revealed.
The Solicitors Qualifying Exam (SQE) is a single assessment for qualifying solicitors, which is being developed by the SRA and assessment provider Kaplan for introduction in 2021.
SQE1 – which candidates must pass before taking SQE2 – was due to contain a multiple-choice legal knowledge test and a written skills test. At a press briefing yesterday however, the SRA announced that it is considering scrapping the skills section. This would leave only the multiple-choice question paper.
An independent review found the written skills assessment ‘raised significant concerns about reliability, fairness and standard setting’. The pilot suggested that black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) candidates, for example, were disadvantaged compared with white candidates even when their performance in the multiple-choice test was taken into account, according to the review.
Come now, we all know that Chinese and Indian students aren't disadvantaged. The issue is the blacks, pakis, and other low performing groups.
Instead of putting pressure on these communities to be more assiduous in their bar exam preparation, the solution is to lower standards. Why bother with law school, perhaps they should get rid of them as well.
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