Board of Law Examiners
180 East 5th Street
Suite 950
St. Paul, MN 55101
651.297.1857
http://www.ble.state.mn.us
Minnesota Bar Exam Format
The Minnesota Bar Exam is a two-day exam. Day 1 consists of six essay questions and one 90-minute Multistate Performance Test (MPT) question. Day 2 is the Multistate Bar Exam (MBE), a 200-question, multiple-choice exam.
Multistate Edge prepares you for the MBE portion of the Minnesota Bar Exam.
Minnesota Bar Exam Subjects: Minnesota Subjects (MBE Subjects are in bold)
Business Associations (Partnerships, Proprietorships, and Corporations, including LLCs), Civil Procedure, Ethics & Professional Responsibility, Family Law, Federal Individual Income Taxation, U.C.C. (Art. 1,2), Wills, Estates & Trusts, Contracts, Criminal Law and Procedure, Constitutional Law, Evidence, Real Property, and Torts
MPRE
A scaled score of 85 on the MPRE is required for admission.
Minnesota Bar Exam Scoring and Results
The MBE, essays, and MPT (weighted 12.5%) scores are scaled and combined to determine if a passing score was achieved. Results are released in mid-April for the February exam and in early October for the July exam.
Click here to see passage results for past Minnesota Bar Exams.
Minnesota Bar Exam MBE Reciprocity
Minnesota may admit an applicant on the basis of an MBE scaled score received in the previous two years without further exam, as long as the applicant received a scaled score of 145 or higher on the MBE and was successful on the entire exam and admitted in that jurisdicition.
Minnesota Bar Exam Reciprocity
In order to be eligible for admission without taking the Minnesota Bar Exam, the applicant must have engaged in the active practice of law for five of the seven years preceding admission, or received a scaled score of 145 or above on the MBE within 24 months of application and be a graduate of an ABA-accredited law school.
Minnesota Bar Exam Application Deadlines and Fees
Please visit the Board of Bar Examiners’ website for details on application deadlines and fees, and for more information on other topics.
*Bar exam information is subject to change without notice; please verify with the bar examiner’s office.
