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The North Carolina Board of Bar Examiners is responsible for the North Carolina bar examination. The examiners release questions to the public here. Here’s something from the archives you might be interested in: a copy of the 1917 NC Bar Exam!

The North Carolina bar exam, a 2-day exam, consists of

• the six-hour Multistate Bar Examination (MBE), weighted 40%;
• twelve North Carolina Essay questions, weighted 60%.

Applicants must receive a combined scaled score of 364. Within 24 months before or 12 months after the bar exam, applicants also must pass the Multistate Professional Responsibility Examination (MPRE) with a scaled score of 80. Laptop computers may be used for the essay portion of the exam.

The following subjects may be tested on the North Carolina bar exam:

• business associations (agency, partnership, corporations)
• civil procedure
• constitutional law
• contracts, including UCC Article 2 sales
• criminal law and procedure
• evidence
• equity (remedies)
• family law
• legal ethics (professional responsibility)
• real property, including real estate finance
• secured transactions, including UCC Article 9
• taxation
• torts
• wills, trusts, and decedents’ estates.