California State Bar leaders showed deep divisions Thursday on the future of the bar exam, as the clock ticks for them to decide whether, after their first attempt failed, they'll try again to develop a test unique to the Golden State.

The bar has three options, staff said: Using questions developed by the vendor that wrote the bulk of questions on the February test temporarily, as a "bridge" to creating a new exam; adopting the National Conference of Bar Examiners' NextGen test; or creating a new, permanent exam that could be streamlined like Nevada's shorter 100-question multiple choice test that ...