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<p>Wrong. There are two 2011 Virginia bar exams: the main one in July (a few months after law school graduation), and a secondary one in February. The posted stats are for the February 2011 exam – the July 2011 exam obviously hasn’t happened yet. So there is no way to know yet what pass rate Liberty (or any other school) will have for the year. But it won’t be 100%. </p>
<p>The February bar exam is much smaller than the July exam. The Feb exam is primarily taken by people who failed in July of the previous year, or who fell off of the regular academic schedule for some reason. Notice how Liberty doesn’t tell you the actual number of students involved in that “100% pass rate” – that’s probably because the number is quite small.</p>
<p>February bar exams results are not considered meaningful, because they only involve a small number of students, usually non-typical students. The July results are the ones that matter. The February results will ultimately be combined with the July results to yield the overall pass rate for the year, but since far more people take the July exams, the February results usually don’t have much effect on the overall pass rate. </p>
<p>During the most recent July bar exam, in [July</a> 2010](<a href=“http://law.wm.edu/news/stories/2010/william--mary-law-graduates-achieve-highest-bar-passage-rate-on-virginias-july-2010-bar-exam.php]July”>William & Mary Law Graduates Achieve Highest Bar Passage Rate on Virginia's July 2010 Bar Exam | William & Mary Law School), Liberty’s pass rate was below the statewide average, and it ranked fifth of eight Virginia law schools.</p>