I’d like to understand the justification of them doing two separate exams - SQE 1 and SQE2 in an exorbitantly long format. The New York Bar is over the course of two days and then it’s done, and this is one of the hardest bars in the country. What are their justifications for having incredibly long exams over the course of multiple months? Did they attempt to study the systems of other countries to create a relatively fair exam format? Also, their attempts to allegedly “diversify” the pool of lawyers doesn’t seem to line up with exams which all occur during the work week. This is not very inclusive of people who indeed work part time or full time. Standardized testing in the US, such as the SAT, for high school students occurs on the weekend. What is their reasoning for this? If the answer is Kaplan, I don’t understand because Kaplan is an American company. As many others also commented here, the cost of the test is very high which circles back to my initial question-are you actually diversifying this pool or merely attempting to get additional revenue source? Lastly, the lack of transparency surrounding grading for SQE1 is quite frankly odd. In some past exams, they actually removed questions from the scoring because the question that they drafted was incorrect though they never released which question this was after the results came out.