The rollout of remote bar exams experienced challenges including AI-generated questions and poor vendor service. The NCBE proposes moving to window-based or on-demand testing to improve the process. Key areas for development include establishing confidence in exam fairness, enhancing security against impersonation, ensuring device reliability, accommodating disadvantaged candidates, and providing secure testing environments. The California Bar's experience serves as a cautionary tale for future efforts in remote examination implementation.
It would be fantastic to move away from event-based testing, where all candidates take the exam at once, Kara Smith, chief product officer at the NCBE, told the ABA Journal.
There are five key areas that need to be developed before the exam could be administered remotely: confidence in fairness, security, reliability, assurances for disadvantaged candidates, and guarantees of distraction-free environments.
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