Media contact: communications@ncbex.org MADISON, WISCONSIN, December 5, 2023 — Arizona is among the first jurisdictions to announce that it will administer the NextGen bar exam, which will replace the exam currently used to license attorneys across the US. The Grand Canyon State will join six other jurisdictions that have announced their intent to adopt the new exam: Connecticut, Iowa, Maryland, […]

Media contact: communications@ncbex.org MADISON, WISCONSIN, November 15, 2023 — Iowa is among the first jurisdictions to announce that it will administer the NextGen bar exam, which will replace the exam currently used to license attorneys across the US. Iowa will join five other jurisdictions that recently announced their intent to adopt the new exam: Connecticut, Maryland, Missouri, Oregon, and Wyoming. […]

MADISON, WISCONSIN, September 14, 2023—The national mean scaled score for the August 2023 MPRE was 96.9, 0.9 points higher than the August 2022 mean of 96.0. The August 2023 mean reflects the performance of 19,005 examinees, 786 more than the August 2022 examinee count of 18,219. The MPRE is a two-hour, 60-question multiple-choice examination administered […]

MADISON, WISCONSIN, August 31, 2023—The National Conference of Bar Examiners (NCBE) announced today that the national mean scaled score for the July 2023 Multistate Bar Examination (MBE) was 140.5, an increase of about 0.2 points compared to the July 2022 mean of 140.3. The MBE, one of three sections that make up the bar exam […]

MADISON, WISCONSIN, August 28, 2023 — The National Conference of Bar Examiners (NCBE) announced today the planned duration and structure of the NextGen bar exam and the date by which the current bar exam will officially sunset. The NextGen exam is currently under development and will launch in July 2026.  The NextGen bar exam will be […]

Effective with the July 2026 bar exam, the following subjects will no longer be tested on the Multistate Essay Exam (MEE): Conflict of Laws, Family Law, Trusts and Estates, and Secured Transactions. This change will align MEE subjects with the subject matter for the NextGen bar exam, which will be administered by some jurisdictions beginning […]