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An influential California legislator is pressuring the State Bar of California to ditch its new multiple-choice questions after a February bar exam debacle and revert to the traditional test format in July.

The California Supreme Court urged the State Bar of California Thursday to explain how and why it utilized artificial intelligence to develop multiple-choice questions for its botched February bar exams.

According to a recent presentation by the State Bar, 100 of the 171 scored multiple-choice questions were made by Kaplan and 48 were drawn from a first-year law students exam.

Others raised issues with the multiple-choice test questions, complaining they consisted of nonsense questions, featured typos and left out important facts.

The exam, which consists of five one-hour essay questions, one 90-minute performance test and 200 multiple-choice questions, is offered only two weeks a year — in February and in July.