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Bar Admissions MBE, MEE, MPT Multistate Tests

The Conference is a service organization providing standardized examinations of high quality to nearly every jurisdiction in the United States. Current tests which the Conference provides are:

The Multistate Bar Examination (MBE) — a six-hour, two-hundred question multiple-choice examination covering contracts, torts, constitutional law, criminal law, evidence, and real property.

The Multistate Essay Examination (MEE) — a three-hour, six-question essay examination covering agency and partnership, commercial paper, conflict of laws, corporations, decedents' estates, family law, federal civil procedure, sales, secured transactions, and trusts and future interests.

The Multistate Professional Responsibility Examination (MPRE) — a fifty question, two-hour, multiple-choice examination administered three times each year.

The Multistate Performance Test (MPT) — three 90-minute skills questions covering legal analysis, fact analysis, problem solving, resolution of ethical dilemmas, organization and management of a lawyering task, and communication.

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The Model for Dialogue Book

"The ABA Bar Admissions Committee has developed this meeting manual—A Model for Dialogue—as a means of promoting better communications among those involved in the bar admissions process." (read)

 

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