The New Jersey Bar exam, a 2-day exam, consists of the six-hour Multistate Bar Examination (MBE), weighted 50%; seven 45-minute New Jersey essay questions, weighted 50%.
Essays are graded, the Bar Examiners write, on the applicant’s ability “to identify and analyze issues and to present an organized, coherent and well-written response within the prescribed format.” The successful applicant must achieve a combined scaled score of 136. Applicants also must pass the Multistate Professional Responsibility Examination (MPRE) with a scaled score of 75.
The following subjects may be tested on the New Jersey bar exam: agency (business associations), civil procedure, conflicts of law, constitutional law, contracts, including UCC Article 2 sales, corporations (business associations), criminal law and procedure, disciplinary rules (professional responsibility), equity (remedies), evidence, family law, partnership (business associations), real property, including real estate finance, torts, UCC Articles 1 (general provisions), 2 (sales), 3 (negotiable instruments), 9 (secured transactions), wills, trusts, and estates, zoning and planning.
Here are the materials we have collected about the New Jersey Bar Examination. We include essay questions from 2002 forward.
2002 August
2003 July
2008 February