{"id":5625,"date":"2025-05-03T21:49:21","date_gmt":"2025-05-03T21:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/state-bar-defends-ai-use-on-bar-exam-asks-calif-supreme-court-to-lower-passing-score\/"},"modified":"2025-05-03T21:49:21","modified_gmt":"2025-05-03T21:49:21","slug":"state-bar-defends-ai-use-on-bar-exam-asks-calif-supreme-court-to-lower-passing-score","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/state-bar-defends-ai-use-on-bar-exam-asks-calif-supreme-court-to-lower-passing-score\/","title":{"rendered":"State Bar Defends AI Use on Bar Exam, Asks Calif. Supreme Court to Lower Passing Score"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div data-v-1c1aa57e=\"\">\n<div data-v-1c1aa57e=\"\">\n<p>In a late-night filing, the state bar asked the California Supreme Court on Tuesday to reduce the raw score needed to pass the February bar exam, acknowledging that test takers experienced &#8220;unacceptable technological issues.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>  <!----> <!----> <!----><\/p>\n<div data-v-1c1aa57e=\"\">\n<p>The 65-page <a href=\"https:\/\/resources.calbar.ca.gov\/hubfs\/Petition-on-Feb-2025-Bar-Exam-Scoring-Stamped-Received.pdf?utm_medium=email&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9trSgHK2b3xsVMpx1Yn8vvfmduUe6gdFJbiRKCuhrrQYSWdHIyggP6sygrc2ZYnFoDM3mKa6mvVzI0inAmEpJs1voRgQ&amp;_hsmi=359143120&amp;utm_content=359143120&amp;utm_source=hs_email\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><u>petition<\/u><\/a> did not address key issues, however, about the bar&#8217;s use of generative artificial intelligence to craft some test questions, even after the high court demanded answers last week.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <!----> <!----> <!----> <!----><\/p>\n<div data-v-1c1aa57e=\"\">\n<p>For the first time, the bar acknowledged publicly that it used OpenAI&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/openai.com\/index\/chatgpt\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><u>ChatGPT<\/u><\/a> to develop questions, not just for the February exam but on an experimental test administered in November. Fourteen of the 49 questions on the practice exam were developed using AI, according to the petition. Eleven of those 14 questions were used again on the February bar exam.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <!----> <!----> <!----> <!----><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a late-night filing, the state bar asked the California Supreme Court on Tuesday to reduce the raw score needed to pass the February bar exam, acknowledging that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5626,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1051,1178,1853,143,1590,2106,5790,4460,1911,533],"class_list":["post-5625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-asks","tag-bar","tag-calif","tag-court","tag-defends","tag-exam","tag-passing","tag-score","tag-state","tag-supreme"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}