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Florida Bar Exam Information

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ABOUT THE BAR EXAM

Format

Admission by examination only.
Part A (Florida-prepared Exam)
Part B (MBE)
MPRE

Part A: essay questions (3 hours) and 100 multiple-choice questions (3 hours)

Subjects

One segment:
• Florida Rules of Civil and Criminal Procedure and of Judicial Administration 2.051, 2.060, and 2.160

Remaining five segments will each embrace no more than two subjects, selected from:
• Business Entities including Corporations and Partnerships
• Chapter 4 & 5 of the Rules Regulating The Florida Bar
• Contracts
• Criminal Law
• Evidence
• Family Law
• Federal Constitutional Law
• Florida Constitutional Law
• Real Property
• Torts
• Trusts

• Wills and Administration of Estates

Grading

Passing score--a scaled score of 136 or better or such scaled score as may be fixed by the court

Part A: Scores of each section are converted by a recognized statistical procedure to equal weight and the converted section scores totaled. All scores are then scaled to the applicants' MBE scaled scores.

Part B: MBE scores are the scaled scores provided by the National Conference of Bar Examiners.

GENERAL BAR EXAM INFORMATION

Contact Information

Florida Board of Bar Examiners
1891 Eider Court
Tallahassee, FL 32399-1750
(850) 487-1292

http://www.floridabarexam.org/

Bar Exam Dates & Locations

Last Tuesday and Wednesday of February and July

Tampa (Tampa Convention Center)

 

FL Bar Review Snapshot
Format—Admission by examination only.
Part A (Florida-prepared Exam);
Part B (MBE);
MPRE;
Part A: essay questions (3 hours) and 100 multiple-choice questions (3 hours)
Last Tuesday and Wednesday of February and July in Tampa (Tampa Convention Center).