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Mississippi Bar Exam Information

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ABOUT THE BAR EXAM

Format

Local essay (Mon.)
MPT/MEE (Tues.)
MBE (Wed.)

Subjects

• Administrative Law
• Bankruptcy
• Business Organizations, including corporations, partnership, and agency
• Conflict of Law
• Contracts
• Criminal Law and Procedure
• Domestic Relations
• Evidence
• Federal Income Taxation
• Federal Jurisdiction and Rules of Civil Procedure
• Practice and Procedure of Mississippi Courts
• Professional Conduct and Ethics
• Real Property
• Torts
• UCC
• Constitution U.S. and Mississippi)
• Wills, Estates, Trusts and Future Interests (including basic federal tax consequences)

Grading

Passing score—a combined score of 132 points (rounded to the nearest 0.1 point)

Determined as follows:
1. Each Mississippi essay (MSE) is scored from 0 to 100 points. Answers on each of the questions on the Multistate Essay Examination (MEE) and MPT are assigned a raw score of 0 to 30 points.
2. The score on each MSE examination and on each question on the MEE and MPT is converted to 0 to 200 points, scaled to the MBE, using the standard deviation method or such other standard statistical method as the Board adopts.
3. Applicants converted scores on all MSE exams are averaged. Applicant's converted scores on all MEE questions are averaged. Applicant's converted scores on all MPT questions are averaged.

4. Applicant's combined score is weighted: Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday of the week containing the last Wednesday in February and July Jackson Average Converted MSE Score" is 30%; Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday of the week containing the last Wednesday in February and July Jackson Average Converted MEE Score" is 15%; Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday of the week containing the last Wednesday in February and July Jackson Average Converted MPT Score" is 15%; and scaled score on the MBE Is 40%.

GENERAL BAR EXAM INFORMATION

Contact Information

Mississippi Board of Bar Admissions
P.O. Box 1449
Jackson, MS 39215-1449
(601) 576-4620

http://www.mssc.state.ms.us/baradmissions/baradmissions.html

Bar Exam Dates & Locations

Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday of the week containing the last Wednesday in February and July

Jackson

 

MS Bar Review Snapshot
Format—Local essay (Mon.);
MPT/MEE (Tues.);
MBE (Wed.)
Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday of the week containing the last Wednesday in February and July in Jackson.