Professional Responsibility is tested on every California Bar Exam. It is always tested as an essay. It is also frequently the subject matter of the Performance Exam. Thus, you are guaranteed to see Professional Responsibility as part of every Bar...
I was leaving the post office one day and I saw a license plate that was an acronym for Nancy Drew. I stopped to admire the plate because it immediately took me back to when I was young and would...
Has anyone ever gotten a perfect score on the bar exam? Yes Have you ever seen an essay exam answer written during an actual state-administered exam that the CA Bar Examiners scored a perfect 100? We never have either, which...
Myths abound about what is required to pass the Performance Exam, including: The importance of the Call of the Question to the final answer How much material from the Performance exam packet to use Whether to outline before writing the...
Although most bar candidates take a formal bar exam course when initiating bar exam prep, self-study is a viable option for those considering their preparation options. Since the bar exam is the last hurdle to becoming a licensed attorney, there...
What are the MBE and MPRE? The Multistate Bar Examination (“MBE”) is a six-hour, 200-question multiple-choice examination developed by the National Conference of Bar Examiners (“NCBE”). In California (“CA”), the MBE is administered on the second day of the two-day...
According to The State Bar of California, 1,458 bar candidates who took the February 2019 Bar Exam passed. This represents 31.4 percent of the total applicants who sat for the exam, which computes to a 4.1 percentage point increase over last year's February pass rate of 27.3 percent.
