Boost Bar Passage Rates with AI-Powered Bar Prep
Ask any dean or academic support professional, and they’ll tell you bar passage rates shape everything. They influence accreditation, rankings, and how future students view your program. With the NextGen bar exam shifting toward practical lawyering skills, law schools need approaches that build strategic prep while meeting new demands. AI can help by speeding up feedback, reducing bottlenecks, and giving students practice that mirrors the challenges ahead—a focus explored in our white paper, Raising the Bar: How AI Can Help Boost Bar Passage Rates.
What You’ll Take Away from This Report
- How AI can streamline feedback and help students strengthen their legal reasoning
- Ways technology can expand academic support without adding to faculty workload
- The role of data in spotting students who need help long before exam day
- How AI-driven simulations help prepare students for the real-world skills tested by the NextGen bar exam
- Why early adopters are seeing both student success and institutional advantages
83% of law schools saw higher pass rates among students who used AI essay grading in the bar prep.
Source: Kaplan analysis of 800+ students' first-time bar exam pass rates, AI vs. non-AI essay grading, 2025
Why the NextGen Bar Exam Demands Action Now
The exam your students will face tomorrow isn’t the one you took years ago. The NextGen bar exam shifts the focus from memorization to practical lawyering skills, testing how students think, reason, and problem-solve in real scenarios. That change raises the stakes for law schools working to protect bar passage rates, accreditation, and reputation.
That’s why we created Raising the Bar: How AI Can Help Boost Bar Passage Rates. Inside, you’ll find research, examples, and expert perspectives on how AI can help institutions strengthen outcomes, protect accreditation, and give students the preparation they deserve. Complete the form below to access your copy.