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The Pennsylvania Board of Bar Examiners offer a few past essay exams here. (We offer a bigger selection of past Pennsylvania essay questions below.)

The Pennsylvania bar exam, a 2-day exam, consists of the six-hour multiple-choice Multistate Bar Examination (MBE), weighted 45%; one 90-minute Pennsylvania Performance Test problem, weighted 11%; six 45-minute Pennsylvania essays, weighted 44%.

The successful applicant must achieve a combined scaled score of 272. Applicants also must pass the Multistate Professional Responsibility Examination (MPRE) with a scaled score of 75, and the state Law Examiners must receive the results within 6 months after the bar exam.

The following subjects may be tested on the Pennsylvania bar exam: business organizations (including partnerships, corporations, LLCs, and professional corporations), civil procedure (Pennsylvania and federal), conflict of laws, constitutional law, contracts, including UCC Article 2 sales, criminal law and procedure (Pennsylvania and federal), employment discrimination (limited to Title VII, ADA, and ADEA), evidence (Pennsylvania and federal), family law, professional responsibility, real property, including real estate finance, taxation (federal income), torts, UCC Article 2 sales, wills, trusts, and decedents’ estates.

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

1995 February and July

1996 July

1997 February and July

1998 February Q & A –  Sample Answers

1999 February Q & A –  Sample Answers

1999 July Q & A –  Sample Answers

2000 February Q & A –  Sample Answers

2000 July Q & A –  Sample Answers

2001 February Q & A –  Sample Answers

2001 July Q & A –  Sample Answers

2002 February Q & A –  Sample Answers

2002 July Q & A –  Sample Answers

2003 February Q & A –  Sample Answers

2003 July Q & A –  Sample Answers

2004 February Q & A –  Sample Answers

2004 July  Q & A –  Sample Answers

2005 February Q & A –  Sample Answers

2005 July Q & A –  Sample Answers

2006 February Q & A –  Sample Answers

2006 July Q & A –  Sample Answers

2007 February Q & A –  Sample Answers

2007 July Q & A –  Sample Answers

2008 February Q & A –  Sample Answers

2008 July Q & A –  Sample Answers