The Bar Exam and MBE

The Bar Exam is a two-day bar examination administered by a committee or board of bar examiners before a license to practice law can be issued to each applicant. The Bar Exam is administered in each state or territory of the United States, usually twice per year, on the last Wednesday in February and on the last Wednesday in July. How many times can you take the Bar Exam?

The Multistate Bar Examination (MBE) is a part of the Bar Exam. It is a standardized set of 200 multiple-choice questions (covers all seven legal practice areas: constitutional law, real property, criminal law and procedure, civil procedure, evidence, contracts, and torts) usually taken on the first day of the state bar examination. The National Conference of Bar Examiners (NCBE) prepares the test questions. The questions are administered in two sessions: 100 questions in the morning session and the remaining 100 questions in the afternoon session.

The Multistate Essay Exam (MEE) is an exam that has six 30-minute essay questions. These essay questions ask to demonstrate an understanding of different areas of law, which may include business associations, civil procedure, conflict of laws, constitutional law, contracts, criminal law, evidence, family law, real property, torts, trusts/estates, and uniform commercial code. The MEE is administered on the first day of the bar exam, on the Tuesday before the last Wednesday in both February and July each year.

The Multistate Performance Test (MPT) is an exam that has two 90-minute assignments. The two assignments test the ability to apply skills to real-world situations. Two sets of documents are given, the File (facts of a fictitious case with legal documents) and the Library (statutes, cases, and other rules), which are used to to fulfill the assignment. The MPT is administered as part of the bar exam and is on the same day as the MEE.

Bar Prep Hero is a bar review program that covers MBE, MEE and MPT parts of the exam. This program offers the most complete collection of officially licensed NCBE questions from actual past bar examinations (every single question ever released!), allowing you to become familiar with the format of the exam and, more importantly, the mindset of the examiners. Our tests contain about 1750 multiple-choice questions that appeared in prior official bar examinations. Additionally, our tests include hundreds of simulated questions devised by our legal experts to reflect the types of questions you will receive in the bar examination. The tests are based on the following seven legal practice areas: Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Contracts, Criminal Law and Procedure, Evidence, Real Property, and Torts. All Bar Prep Hero tests are designed to resemble as closely as possible the types of questions that we expect will appear in the MBE. Most of our questions are based on hypothetical fact problems, each of which gives rise to a legal conflict between disputing sides that must be resolved through the legal process. You must resolve the dispute by using legal analysis to select the most likely answer from the four alternatives provided. Select the answer that you believe is best, given the facts, the law, and the circumstances.