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The New York State Board of Law Examiners presents an elaborate Official Outline of the subjects and issues tested on the New York Bar Exam.

The New York bar exam, a 2-day exam, consists of the six-hour Multistate Bar Examination (MBE), weighted 40%; one 90-minute Multistate Performance Test (MPT) problem, weighted 10%; 50 New York multiple choice questions, weighted 10%; and five 40-minute New York essay questions, weighted 40%.

The New York questions, both multiple-choice and essay, require specific knowledge of New York law. A detailed content outline is available for the New York portion of the bar exam. Essay questions all test more than one subject. The successful applicant must achieve a combined scaled score of 665 out of 1000.

Applicants also must pass the Multistate Professional Responsibility Examination (MPRE) the year before or during which the applicant takes the bar exam, or the following year until March. The passing scaled score for the MPRE is 85.

The following subjects may be tested on the New York bar exam: business relationships (business associations), civil procedure and jurisdiction (New York and federal), conflict of laws, constitutional law (New York and federal), contracts, including UCC Article 2 sales, criminal law and procedure, evidence, family law, professional responsibility, real property, including real estate finance, remedies, torts and statutory no-fault insurance provisions, UCC Articles 1 (general provisions), 2 (sales), 3 (negotiable instruments), 9 (secured transactions), wills, trusts, and estates.

Here are the materials we have collected about the New York Bar Examination. We include essay questions from 1995 forward.

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