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The Utah State Bar Office of Admissions is responsible for the bar exam. There is little or no local content on this bar examination. Utah does not release any of its local essay questions to the public.

The Utah bar exam, a two-day exam, consists of

• the six-hour multiple-choice Multistate Bar Examination (MBE), weighted 50%;
• two 90-minute Multistate Performance Test (MPT) problems, weighted 18%, and
• eight 30-minute essay questions, weighted 32%. One of the essay questions will cover legal ethics.  Essays may be drafted by Utah examiners or taken from the Multistate Essay Examination (MEE).

The successful applicant must achieve a combined scaled score of 270 out of 400. Applicants also must pass the Multistate Professional Responsibility Examination (MPRE) with a scaled score of 80 within two years of the bar examination.

The following subjects may be tested on the Utah bar exam:

• administrative law
• business associations (agency, partnership, corporations, and LLCs)
• civil procedure (federal and Utah)
• conflict of laws
• constitutional law (federal and Utah)
• contracts, including UCC Article 2 sales
• creditor/ debtor law
• criminal law and procedure
• evidence (federal and Utah)
• family law
• legal ethics (professional responsibility) (Utah)
• real property , including real estate finance
• torts
• UCC Articles 1 (general provisions), 2 (sales), 3 (negotiable instruments), & 9 (secured transactions)
• wills, trusts, decedents’ estates, future interests, and estate planning (including tax aspects).