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The National Conference of Bar Examiners (NCBE) today announced initial plans that will allow jurisdictions the option to provide the bar exam remotely in February 2021, since challenges related to COVID-19 will likely still be present next year.

1,811 examinees sat for the Multistate Bar Exam (MBE) in eight jurisdictions on September 9–10, 2020.

The National Conference of Bar Examiners (NCBE) today announced the completion of the July 2020 bar exam process by jurisdictions nationwide that administered its exams.

Four out of five Americans support in-person or remote bar exam for law school graduates.

The national Multistate Professional Responsibility Examination (MPRE) mean scaled score for August 2020 was 98.6.

The national Multistate Bar Examination (MBE) mean scaled score for July 2020 was 146.1.

Hulett H. (Bucky) Askew of Atlanta, Georgia, has been elected chair of the Board of Trustees of the National Conference of Bar Examiners (NCBE).

The National Conference of Bar Examiners (NCBE) and the Council on Legal Education Opportunity, Inc. (CLEO) announced today that the two organizations will renew and extend their partnership to increase diversity and inclusion in the legal profession.

The national Multistate Bar Examination mean scaled score for February 2020 was 132.6, a decrease of about 1.4 points from the February 2019 mean of 134.0.

On April 9, 2020, NCBE published a white paper, Bar Admissions During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Evaluating Options for the Class of 2020.

We are all facing an unprecedented set of challenges as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.

NCBE continues to monitor the coronavirus (COVID-19) situation closely.