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The Board of Trustees of the National Conference of Bar Examiners voted today to approve the NCBE Testing Task Force’s recommendations for the next generation of the bar exam.

The national Multistate Professional Responsibility Examination (MPRE) mean scaled score for October 2020 was 98.8.

NCBE’s Testing Task Force has released its preliminary recommendations for the next generation of the bar exam.

417 examinees in five jurisdictions sat for the Multistate Bar Exam (MBE) on October 1, 2020.

NCBE is in the process of surveying test takers who took a remote exam using NCBE materials in October in order to learn more about their experience.

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.

NCBE continues to monitor the coronavirus (COVID-19) situation closely. At this time, the MPRE scheduled for August 11 and 12 at Pearson VUE testing centers is proceeding as scheduled.

The National Conference of Bar Examiners (NCBE) offers this response to the Report of the New York State Bar Association Task Force on the New York Bar Examination (Task Force Report), which was released in March 2020.

NCBE will provide a limited set of questions (MBE, MEE, MPT) to jurisdictions for an emergency remote testing option for local admission during the COVID-19 crisis.

NCBE understands the anxiety and financial hardship many bar exam candidates are facing this year.

Based on information as of May 5 about which jurisdictions plan to go ahead with the July bar exam, NCBE has determined that there will most likely be a sufficient number of July examinees to administer the exam.

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.