The North Dakota State Board of Bar Examiners is responsible for the North Dakota Bar Exam. There is no local North Dakota content tested on the bar exam.
The North Dakota bar exam, a two-day exam, consists of
- the six-hour Multistate Bar Examination (MBE), weighted 50%;
- six 30-minute Multistate Essay Examination (MEE) questions, weighted 30%;
- two 90-minute Multistate Performance Test (MPT) problems, weighted 20%.
Applicants also must pass the Multistate Professional Responsibility Examination (MPRE) with a scaled score of 80 within five years of applying for bar admission.
North Dakota tests only on general law, not on North Dakota law. The following subjects may be tested on the North Dakota 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
- real property, including real estate finance
- torts
- trusts and estates (wills, trusts, future interests, intestate succession)
- UCC Articles 1 (general provisions), 2 (sales), 3 (negotiable instruments), 9 (secured transactions).