Last week, in a moment of commendable candor, Elizabeth Parker, executive director of the California Bar, told law makers that “there is no good answer” for why California has set its bar exam cut score at the level it has. What should California do? One approach would be to simply lower its cut score to, say, the median cut score for all other states, and in the short run, that might be an appropriate response.  But let’s remember that California is not alone in having “no good answer” for why it set its cut score at the level it did.  One can hope that the focus on California may bring much needed attention to the broader issues surrounding the bar exam.