DALLAS (AP) – Law school graduates taking the bar exam in multiple states experienced delays when they tried to submit their answers on the test’s first day. The Florida-based testing software provider blamed a processing issue and said it had been fixed as of Wednesday morning.
Some test takers experienced slowness or difficulty in returning completed exams Tuesday to company servers using ExamSoft Worldwide Inc. software, vice president of marketing Kenneth Knotts said.
By Wednesday morning, applicants were uploading the exams without delays, the company said on its website.
Knotts said the processing problems did not affect the exam takers’ answer content, and that all the state bars that had not yet received all exams had extended their deadlines because of the issue.
“This was not at all a system-wide failure. The experience was a delay and some difficulty” in uploading the files, he said. “At no point in time was the integrity of their exam files ever affected.”