FAMU Law raises its first-try passage rate on July bar exam

The FAMU College of Law’s first-try passage rate on the July Florida Bar Examination increased by 3.6 points over last year’s. A total of 71.1 percent of the July 2013 first-time test takers passed. Back in July 2012, 68.1 percent passed on the first try.

“What we’re doing is working,” Interim President Larry Robinson said in a quote published by the Tallahassee Democrat. “The overall trend is moving in the right direction, a positive direction.”

Back in 2009, FAMU Law Dean LeRoy Pernell introduced a restructured Academic Success & Bar Preparation Program, currently directed by Professor Alicia Jackson. The Bar Exam Success Training (BEST) Program is a centerpiece of this initiative. According to FAMU Law’s website, BEST provides “individualized structure and support for FAMU graduates who are taking the bar exam. The program begins immediately after students graduate and continues to the bar examination.”

FAMU Law’s 2013 bar passage rates show that the BEST Program is getting the job done. The school also achieved game-changing results on the February 2013 bar exam. FAMU’s first-time test takers posted an 82.6 percent passage rate. That represented a 17.1 point increase from the prior highest rate for the February bar that was achieved in 2012 at 65.5 percent.

For the statewide first-try results on the Florida Bar, visit here.