The Hawai’i bar exam, a two-day exam, includes almost no local content. It consists of
- the six-hour multiple-choice Multistate Bar Examination (MBE), weighted 50%;
- two 90-minute Multistate Performance Test (MPT) problems, weighted 10%;
- fifteen multiple-choice questions on the Hawai’i Rules of Professional Conduct, weighted 5%; and
- seven 30-minute Multistate Essay Examination (MEE) questions, weighted 35%.
Successful applicants must earn a combined scaled score of 134. Within 2 years before or 1 year after the bar exam, applicants also must pass the Multistate Professional Responsibility Examination (MPRE) with a scaled score of 85.
The following subjects may be tested on the Hawai’i bar exam:
- business associations (agency, partnership, corporations, LLCs)
- civil procedure
- conflict of laws
- constitutional law
- contracts, including UCC Article 2 sales
- criminal law and procedure
- evidence
- family law
- legal ethics (Hawai’i Rules of Professional Responsibility)
- real property, including real estate finance
- torts
- trusts and estates (wills, trusts, decedents’ estates, future interests)
- UCC Articles 1 (general provisions), 2 (sales), 3 (negotiable instruments/commercial paper), 9 (secured transactions)