Latest bar exam software glitch puts some test takers in a bind
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Computers with Intel’s 12 generation chipset, which hit the market in 2022, trigger the “automatic virtual machine check” function of Examplify, the software used for the bar exam, the company said. Marsha Griggs, director of academic enrichment and bar passage at Washburn University School of Law, said Thursday that ExamSoft should provide compliant laptops to bar takers with affected machines at no cost, and that individual jurisdictions should push the company to do so. “It couldnt be more of a burden during a time period in which any distractions could have a material effect on peoples ability to pass the exam,” he said. For example, ExamSoft in 2015 agreed to pay $2.1 million to settle a class action brought by 2014 bar examinees who could not upload their essay answers on time due to a software issue. More recently, problems with Examplify disrupted remote bar exams administered in October 2020, February 2021 and July 2021.
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