Another topic emerged: the issue of exit exams in higher education.

However, the school boasts a 97.3% passing rate of the state's standardized exit exam.

These so-called exit exams create a particularly tough hurdle for students with learning disabilities.

When California gave its first exit exam last year, on a voluntary basis, 9 of 10 students with learning disabilities failed.

Both the culminating project and the exit exam are usually required to graduate high school.

The law school also has a mandatory bar review program and six-hour exit exam.

Over time, there has been debate about the use of exit exams.

Now, the exit exams will take effect in 2006.

But the delay has done little to appease many opponents of California's exit exam.

Students now must pass an "exit" exam in English and math to be graduated from high school.