As you may know, our Partnership for Student Success with
Barbri includes First and Second Year Diagnostic Exams (so-called “Baby Bar”
exams). The Baby Bar diagnostic tests are designed to assess student
strengths and weaknesses in particular subject areas and to give students
experience taking an MBE-style multiple-choice exam. They are an important part
of our program for preparing Akron Law students to succeed on the bar.
The Baby Bar diagnostics will be administered on the
following dates in 2020. Please note these dates and plan to take the
exam on a date that is assigned to your cohort.
Spring 2018 and Spring 2019 starts:
- Saturday, January 25, 2020, 9 a.m. to noon.
- Tuesday, January 28, 2020, 6:30 to 9:30 p.m.
Summer/Fall 2018 and Summer/Fall 2019 starts:
- Saturday,
September 5, 2020, 9 a.m. to noon
- Thursday,
September 10, 2020, 6:30 to 9:30 p.m.
The diagnostics consist of 120 multiple-choice questions.
Like on a real MBE exam, it is estimated that it will take you 1.5 minutes to
complete each question. No preparation is required to take the Baby Bar exam
– the diagnostics are designed to be taken without advance studying. After
the exams are administered, each student will receive an individual diagnostic
report that will show where you are doing well and where you might benefit from
additional work. The school will also receive each student’s individual report
as well as a cohort report. We will use this information to help determine what
we teach and how we teach it.
In order to ensure the completeness and integrity of the
diagnostic results, every student in one of the above cohorts is required to
take the Baby Bar exam. You also are required to give your best effort
while taking the exam – failure to do so would make the results less reliable
and defeat the purposes of the diagnostic. For these reasons, failure to
take the diagnostic or to put forth your best effort may result in referral to
the student disciplinary committee.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me or
Dean Janoski-Haehlen.
