MBE Online Practice Exam 12 official questions

Many prospective attorneys graduate from law school with the intent to practice a specific area of law. They may have specialized in that area of law in law school, and as a JD-holder, they may feel most comfortable with that subject. That may be true of you as well. However, the Multistate Bar Exam (MBE) always tests the same legal subjects, and you need to study for them to pass the bar exam even if you prefer to practice another area of law. These subjects are Evidence, Torts, Contracts, Constitutional Law, Real Property, Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, and Civil Procedure. You may have struggled with these subjects in law school, but there’s no getting around them on the bar exam. Everyone has to take the same subjects. You need to study them and be strong enough in them to pass the bar exam. These subjects are also tested on the Multistate Essay Exam (MEE). However, unlike the MBE, which always tests the same subjects, the MEE varies in which subjects will be on the six-essay exam.

Fortunately, the National Conference of Bar Examiners (NCBE) has released past MBE questions for future test-takers to use as practice. We’ve created fourteen practice tests from these past MBE questions. This practice test has 100 multiple-choice questions, just like the morning and afternoon sessions of the MBE. (The MBE is split into two halves, each with 100 multiple-choice questions. The MBE has 200 multiple-choice questions in total.)

Attending law school can teach you much of the black-letter law that you need to know for the bar exam, but it won’t necessarily prepare you for the experience of taking the bar exam. The bar exam is structured differently from most law school exams. Although your law school may have had open-book exams, the bar exam is entirely closed-book. Instead of being asked about specific cases, you’ll be given legal hypotheticals that test a specific legal issue. Then, you’ll need to choose the answer that best responds to the legal issue being tested, as it applies to the hypothetical. This practice test prioritizes the following legal subjects: Real Property, Torts, Constitutional Law, and Criminal Procedure.