Why Jurisdictions May Want to Implement the MEE

The National Conference has assured the highest quality in the development and grading of the MEE. Every question is pretested. More than 100 people are involved in the development of the MEE. Members of the MEE Drafting Committee and other outside experts draft original questions for the MEE. Academics and practitioners, who are experts in the fields covered by the test, serve as drafters.

Questions are edited by the drafting committee, pretested, analyzed independently by outside experts and members of the MEE Policy Committee, and reviewed by the boards of bar examiners in the jurisdictions that use the test. Finally, the test is revised by the drafting committee.

Every MEE question is accompanied by an analysis for use by graders in each user jurisdiction. The analysis identifies the issues raised by the question, cites appropriate authority, and indicates suggested weights for discussion of the issues. The MEE may be answered and graded according to the law of general application or according to state law.

Every administration of the MEE is followed by a grading workshop. The National Conference of Bar Examiners sponsors a grading workshop on the weekend following test administration. Graders for each question meet to review the analysis and sample answers to the question. Revisions to the analyses are sent to each user jurisdiction immediately after the grading workshop.