But now, the same NCBE that spent the whole year declaring that absolutely nothing needed to change announced the results of its own three-year study conducted by its Testing Task Force promising big changes that might calm the mounting pressure on the licensing process… in five years or so.
The new recommendations would not come into effect until 2026 at the earliest, but at least they address the core problems with the exam outlined over the last year, right? Mostly wrong.
In defense of the report, it does correctly identify the need to transition the exam from one based upon encyclopedic mastery of generalist doctrinal knowledge in a profession increasingly oriented around specialization to one focused upon testing legal skills. But