417 examinees in five jurisdictions sat for the Multistate Bar Exam (MBE) on October 1, 2020, including three jurisdictions that administered an October bar exam instead of the July bar exam and two jurisdictions that offered both a July and an October bar exam. Alternative test dates were used this year by many jurisdictions in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The national mean scaled score for October 1 examinees was 137.2.
Because of the low examinee counts for this year’s July, September, and October in-person administrations, a comparison of these results to previous years’ national results for the July administration is of limited value.
Approximately 29,000 additional examinees sat for a remotely administered exam using NCBE materials on October 5–6. Because that exam will be scored by the individual jurisdictions that administer it, NCBE will not have MBE mean score data to report for the remote option.
