See Best Bar Exam Advice, National Jurist, Winter 2024, Vol. 33 No. 3 at 28.
From the ABA Bar Admissions Basic Overview
“In order to obtain a license to practice law, almost all law school graduates must apply for bar admission through a state board of bar examiners. Most often this board is an agency of the highest state court in the jurisdiction, but occasionally the board is connected more closely to the state’s bar association. The criteria for eligibility to take the bar examination or to otherwise qualify for bar admission are set by each state, not by the ABA or the Council for the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar.”
NextGen Bar Exam is coming soon! For now, if you are taking the bar exam in 2024:
- the Multistate Bar Examination (MBE)
- the Multistate Essay Examination (MEE)
- the Multistate Performance Test (MPT)
Like the Uniform Bar Examination (UBE), which is uniformly administered, graded, and scored bar examination so that it results in a portable score (that is, you can transfer your score to another UBE jurisdiction), NextGen will hopefully follow suit in terms of portability.
The NCBE also develops the Multistate Professional Responsibility Examination (MPRE), which is a required component of the Character and Fitness portion for admission to the bar by most US jurisdictions.
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