Chuck Bryant

But they, you know, the states generally kind of fell in line behind the ABA and

I think by 1931, another decade later, the American Association of Law Schools got together with a committee and they said, all right, we need to develop a real system here.

So they came together with the National Conference of Bar Examiners.

And at that time, 1930s, they were really like the testing that they were concerned about was what they call black letter law, just sort of

Really unambiguous black and white yes or no answers to things on like, you know, how things are literally legally defined and not a lot of like, you know, hypotheticals being bandied about.

Real world stuff.

Yeah, exactly.

Which you're going to get more these days in the bar exam.

Yeah, but one of the problems with taking a test like that is that your hand can get cramped.

They didn't want prospective lawyers' hands cramping, so in 1972, the National Conference of Bar Examiners came up with the Multi-State Bar Examination.

And that created a multiple choice test.

Yeah.

It also really kind of dug into like your knowledge.

But at the same time, you can also say like this is where it became a little more standardized and less loosey goosey.

But in that sense, it also became a little more scientific minded.

Yeah.

by creating a test that you could say, this is right, this is wrong.

And it wasn't just legal terms.

They were applying it to hypothetical situations, but it was still multiple choice.

So you could grade it much more easily.