The Oklahoma Board of Bar Examiners is responsible for the Oklahoma Bar Exam. Oklahoma’s Examiners do not release essay questions or answers.
The Oklahoma bar exam, a two-day exam, consists of
- the six-hour multiple-choice Multistate Bar Examination (MBE), and;
- sixteen 30-minute Oklahoma essay questions.
The successful applicant must achieve a grade of at least 75% on the Oklahoma Rules of Professional Conduct, 75% on the essay portion, and 135 minimum on the MBE. Applicants also must pass the Multistate Professional Responsibility Examination (MPRE) with a scaled score of 75 within five years before or one year after taking the bar exam.
The following subjects may be tested on the Oklahoma bar exam:
- administrative law
- business associations, which includes
- agency
- partnerships and joint ventures
- corporations
- limited liability companies
- commercial law, which includes
- bankruptcy
- consumer law
- contracts, including UCC Article 2 sales
- creditors’ rights
- Uniform Commercial Code, including Articles 1 (general provisions), 2 (sales), 3 (negotiable instruments), and 9 (secured transactions)
- conflicts of law
- constitutional law
- criminal law and procedure
- estate planning, including federal estate & gift taxation
- family law
- procedural law, which includes
- evidence
- pleadings (civil procedure)
- practice (civil procedure)
- remedies, including damages, equity, and restitution
- professional conduct (Oklahoma)
- property, including real estate finance
- torts
- wills, trusts, estates, and intestate succession.