18 Mar FYLSX Update for June 2024
March 15, 2024, update: At its March 15 meeting, the Committee of Bar Examiners approved the grading and scoring of a First-Year Law Student’s Exam consisting solely of multiple-choice questions, beginning with the June 2024 exam. The exam will consist of 100 multiple-choice questions and will no longer contain any essay questions. Please read through this entire page, as it has been updated to reflect this change.
Applicants taking the June 2024 First-Year Law Students’ Examination should carefully read this bulletin prior to the first day of the exam, as it contains important information that you will need to know.
Schedule of exam
The exam will be administered on Tuesday, June 25, 2024. There will be two exam sessions throughout the day; applicants may choose to schedule and take the exam in either the morning or afternoon session. There is one set break in each session. Applicants taking the examination online must use laptop computers and should go to the Prometric landing page at their scheduled exam time. For both the morning and afternoon session, the exam will be administered with the following schedule:
- Multiple-choice questions 1-50: 90 minutes
- Break: 20 minutes
- Multiple-choice questions 51-100: 90 minutes
Exam structure and grading
For the June 2024 exam, 25 of the 100 multiple-choice questions will be new items being operationally pretested. The pretested items will include items from each content area. With an operational pretest, all 100 items administered on the exam will be scored. Following administration, the new exam questions are statistically analyzed to ensure that they perform as intended. Any new items that do not meet evaluation criteria will be removed from scoring so that they do not harm an applicant’s score.
An applicant’s total score on the exam is the sum of an applicant’s scores on the multiple-choice questions. To pass the exam, an applicant must achieve a total scaled score of 560 or higher.
If the total scaled score is at least 540 but less than 560, that applicant’s exam is automatically reviewed a second time, where the exam is double-checked for any mathematical errors. The scores reported to applicants whose exams were reviewed a second time are the scores achieved after the second review.
If an applicant is absent for any portion of the exam, the applicant will be considered as having not taken the exam; the applicant’s multiple-choice responses will not be graded; and, if the applicant intends to take a future administration of the exam, they will be subject to the same application filing deadlines applicable to first-time applicants rather than the deadlines applicable to immediate repeaters, if any.
Applicants must follow all the rules and procedures set forth in this Admittance Ticket Bulletin and in the Acceptance and Acknowledgement of Testing Conditions Form. Failure to do so may result in receiving a sanction of zero for a section of the exam, or for the full exam, or a negative referral to the Moral Character Determinations unit.
The Committee of Bar Examiners is the sole judge of the validity of the exam and, at its discretion, may determine that the result of any test or any part of any test or any individual’s score is not valid. Should the Committee invalidate any part of the test, or if any individual’s test is declared invalid or for any reason any part of the test cannot be graded, the Committee may, at its discretion, decide to make a pass/fail decision on the basis of the valid portion of the applicant’s test product available to the Committee.