Georgia

The Supreme Court of Georgia Bar Admissions website contains plenty of useful information, including the Rules that govern admission to practice in Georgia. Past essay questions with example answers are available here. (We reproduce links to individual items from the Georgia website below.)

The Georgia bar exam, a 2-day exam, consists of the six-hour Multistate Bar Examination (MBE), two 90-minute Multistate Performance Test (MPT) problems, and four 45-minute Georgia essay questions.

The successful applicant must achieve a combined scaled score of 270, with a minimum scaled score of 115 on the MBE. Applicants also must pass the Multistate Professional Responsibility Examination (MPRE) with a scaled score of 75.

The following subjects may be tested on the Georgia bar exam: business organizations, civil procedure, constitutional law, contracts, including UCC Art. 2 sales, criminal law and procedure, evidence, family law, practice and procedure (Georgia and federal), professional ethics, property, including real estate finance, remedies, torts, UCC Articles 1 (general provisions), 2 (sales), 3 (negotiable instruments), and 9 (secured transactions), wills, trusts, and estates.

Read the Official Instructions that accompany the Georgia essays:

Applicants were given forty-five minutes to answer each of the essay questions. Instructions for writing the essay answer are as follows:

1. Assume that the questions arise under the laws of Georgia, unless otherwise indicated.
2. Clearness and conciseness will count but make your answers complete. Do not volunteer irrelevant or immaterial information.
3. Demonstrate not merely your memory, but your ability to think.
4. Read each question carefully and understand it before answering. Each answer should show: an understanding of the facts; a recognition of the issues involved; the principles of law applicable; and the reasoning by which you arrived at your conclusions. The value of an answer depends not so much upon the correctness of the conclusions as upon the presence and quality of the elements above-mentioned.

July 2008	Q.	1	2	3	4
	A.	1	2	3	4
MPT	A.	1	2
February 2008	Q.	1	2	3	4
	A.	1	2	3	4
MPT	A.	1	2
July 2007	Q.	1	2	3	4
	A.	1	2	3	4
MPT	A.	1	2
February 2007	Q.	1	2	3	4
	A.	1	2	3	4
MPT	A.	1	2
July 2006	Q.	1	2	3	4
	A.	1	2	3	4
MPT	A.	1	2
February 2006	Q.	1	2	3	4
	A.	1	2	3	4
MPT	A.	1	2
July 2005	Q.	1	2	3	4
	A.	1	2	3	4
MPT	A.	1	2
February 2005	Q.	1	2	3	4
	A.	1	2	3	4
MPT	A.	1	2
July 2004	Q.	1	2	3	4
	A.	1	2	3	4
MPT	A.	1	2
February 2004	Q.	1	2		4
	A.	1	2		4
July 2003	Q.	1	2	3	4
	A.	1	2	3	4
February 2003	Q.	1	1	3	4
	A.	1	2	3	4
July 2002	Q.	1	2	3	4
	A.	1	2	3	4
February 2002	Q.	1	2	3	4
	A.	1	2	3	4
July 2001	Q.	1	2	3	4
	A.	1	2	3	4
February 2001	Q.	1	2	3	4
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July 2000	Q.	1	2	3	4
	A.	1	2	3	4
February 2000	Q.	1	2	3	4
	A.	1	2	3	4