Many law school grads were in for a big shock this spring. After being told that they passed the bar exam that they took this past winter, it has been discovered that the Multistate Bar Exam was misgraded. Some law school grads that were told that they had passed may have indeed failed the exam. The testing company responsible for grading the exams gave credit for one question to some people that had answered it incorrectly. With 20,000 people taking the exam across the country, the misgrading could effect a reasonably large number of people. Ohio has postponed the swearing in of all the grads that scored the minimum required score while Massachusetts has announced that they will regrade their exams.

This is the first, and hopefully the last, time in 16 years that a mistake has occured. I know I don’t want to deal with this when the time comes for me to take the bar exam.

(via Lawschool.com)

UPDATE - Well, I’ve now had my first Instapundit link. Welcome to the site everyone.

Redman asks about the flipside of the coin, whether people failed that should have passed. The answer is yes. Those that answered the question correctly had the answer counted as incorrect.

ANOTHER UPDATE - Kimberly Swygert writes about her concerns regarding the fairness of lowing scores based on errors of the testing company.