This article originally appeared in The Bar Examiner print edition, Winter 2023-2024 (Vol. 92, No. 4), p. 5.
Highlights from the 2023 Year in Review about the services NCBE provided to jurisdictions and candidates in 2023:
Jurisdiction Services
Character and Fitness Investigations
- NCBE conducted 13,860 character and fitness investigations on behalf of 29 jurisdictions
- 25 jurisdictions used NCBE’s online Character Report Application
- 53 jurisdictions used NCBE’s Online Verification system
- 45 jurisdictions participated in NCBE’s Cross-Reference service
Psychometric Services
- NCBE scored, equated, scaled, and performed other statistical analyses on 151,718 exams for 55 jurisdictions
- 42 jurisdictions used NCBE’s score scaling services
- NCBE provided research support (including analyses related to suspected cheating) for 17 jurisdictions
Candidate Services
Score Services
NCBE performed the following score services for the MPRE, UBE, and MBE:
- 22,552 MPRE scores transferred to jurisdictions
- 7,067 MPRE score transcripts released to examinees
- 10,054 UBE score transcripts transferred to jurisdictions
- 2,275 UBE score transcripts released to examinees
- 420 MBE scores transferred to jurisdictions
- 324 MBE scores released to examinees
For more information on NCBE’s activities in 2023, see the 2023 Year in Review, available at ncbex.org/about/publications.
Did you know?
NCBE publishes up-to-date information on bar exam pass rates as jurisdictions release their results after each exam administration.
Visit ncbex.org/statistics-research/bar-exam-results-jurisdiction to see pass rates by jurisdiction for the February 2024 exam as they are released.
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