The Texas Board of Law Examiners offers Texas essays from past exams, links to which are reproduced below. The examiners offer helpful comments about each of the subjects tested on the exam. As usual, these comments reinforce the wisdom of the Master Essay Method.
Texas bar exam, a 2½-day exam, consists of the six-hour multiple-choice Multistate Bar Examination (MBE), weighted 40%; one 90-minute Multistate Performance Test (MPT) problem, weighted 10%; Procedure and Evidence questions, weighted 10%; twelve Texas essay questions, weighted 40%.
Successful applicants must earn a combined scaled score of 675 out of 1000 points. Within 2 years of 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 Texas bar exam: bankruptcy (cross-over topic which may be included in questions about other topics such as family law or wills and estates), business associations, including agency, partnership, corporations, LLCs, and professional associations, civil procedure and jurisdiction (Texas), constitutional law, consumer law, including the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Protection Act and insurance, contracts, including UCC Article 2 sales, criminal law, criminal procedure (Texas and federal), evidence (Texas and federal), family law, real property, including Texas topics such as oil and gas and MBE topics such as real estate finance, taxation, including income, estate, and gift taxes (cross-over topic which may be included in questions about other topics such as family law or wills and estates, torts, trusts and guardianships, Uniform Commercial Code, including Articles 1 (general provisions), 2 (sales), 3 (negotiable instruments), and 9 (secured transactions, wills and administration.
Here are the materials we have collected about the Texas Bar Examination. We include essay questions from 1998 forward.
See also Examiners’ Comments.
Past Examination Online
See also Examiners’ Comments.
The following Texas Bar Examinations are available for viewing only with Adobe Acrobat Reader.
| AM Essays | PM Essays | Procedure & Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| July 2008 | July 2008 | July 2008 Civil July 2008 Criminal |
| February 2008 | February 2008 | February 2008 Civil February 2008 Criminal |
| July 2007 | July 2007 | July 2007 Civil July 2007 Criminal |
| February 2007 | February 2007 | February 2007 Civil February 2007 Criminal |
| July 2006 | July 2006 | July 2006 Civil July 2006 Criminal |
| February 2006 | February 2006 | February 2006 Civil February 2006 Criminal |
| July 2005 | July 2005 | July 2005 — Civil Criminal |
| February 2005 | February 2005 | February 2005 — Civil Criminal |
| July 2004 | July 2004 | July 2004 — Civil Criminal |
| February 2004 | February 2004 | February 2004 |
| July 2003 | July 2003 | July 2003 |
| February 2003 | February 2003 | February 2003 |
| July 2002 | July 2002 | July 2002 |
| February 2002 | February 2002 | February 2002 |
| July 2001 | July 2001 | July 2001 |
| February 2001 | February 2001 | February 2001 |
| July 2000 | July 2000 | July 2000 |
| February 2000 | February 2000 | February 2000 |
| February 1998 | February 1998 |
The following exams are available for viewing without the Adobe Acrobat Reader.
| AM Essays | PM Essays | Procedure & Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| July 1999 | July 1999 | July 1999 |
| February 1999 | February 1999 | February 1999 |
| February 1998 | February 1998 | |