bar examination

American  

Or bar exam

noun

1. a written examination to determine if one is qualified to practice law in a particular jurisdiction.

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Example Sentences

“It would give those who have spent down savings or taken out loans to study for the bar examination the opportunity to earn the income they may need to prepare for another attempt.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 3, 2025

Only 5 percent of Black first-time bar exam–takers who graduated from California ABA-accredited law schools passed the February 2020 bar examination.

From Slate • Jul. 23, 2020

School of Law, and has accepted an offer to work in the real estate transactional group at Kasowitz Benson Torres, a law firm in New York, following graduation and the bar examination.

From New York Times • Jan. 13, 2019

If you want to practice law today, you minimally have to graduate from college, then law school, and then pass a state bar examination.

From Salon • Jun. 8, 2018

There was apparently a Merton prize fellowship in December on which his hopes were set, and the first part of his bar examination to read for, whether he got a fellowship or no.

From Lady Connie by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.