New to Bar Admissions? Introducing NCBE Services: MPRE Aggregate Score Reports to Law Schools

This article originally appeared in The Bar Examiner print edition, Fall 2025 (Vol. 94, No. 3), pp. 26.

NCBE offers a free score-­reporting service for the MPRE to law schools. This score report aggregates data from all examinees from a designated law school for a particular MPRE administration. It does not show individual performance or include any personal identifying information. The performance information provided in the report is based upon a scaled score that ranges from 50 to 150.

This service provides two reports via email to participating law schools following an MPRE administration. The first is the “Local Scaled Score Frequency Distribution,” which shows how examinees with valid scores who have attended the designated law school scored on the MPRE. The second report, the “National Scaled Score Frequency Distribution,” presents the same data for the total population of examinees with valid scaled scores for that same administration.

Each distribution shows the following information associated with a particular scaled score:

1. Frequency: number of ­examinees receiving that score
2. Cumulative frequency: ­number of examinees scoring at or below that score
3. Percent below: percentage of examinees receiving a score lower than that score

At the end of each report, there is a statistical summary of the results for examinees from the designated school (local report) or for the total population (national report). These statistical results include the ­following information:

1. Number of examinees with a valid MPRE scaled score
2. Mean (average) scaled score
3. Standard deviation of the scaled score (the higher the value, the more variation)
4. Maximum scaled score
5. Minimum scaled score
6. Median scaled score (the median is the 50th percentile­—the point on the score scale below which 50% of examinees scored)

NCBE supplies this information for internal law school use only for the purpose of assessing learning outcomes. NCBE does not permit using this information as part of faculty or staff evaluations.

Law schools can opt into the service at any time by ­emailing Shalon Holbeck at sholbeck@ncbex.org.

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