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The Connecticut Bar Exam is a two-day exam -- Wednesday and Thursday -- with the multiple-choice Multistate Bar Exam on Wednesday and the Connecticut essays on Thursday.

First Day (Wednesday) morning session:
* Three hours
* Multistate Bar Examination (MBE)
* 100 Multiple-Choice Questions.

First Day (Wednesday) afternoon session:
* Three hours
* Multistate Bar Examination (MBE)
* 100 Multiple-Choice Questions

Second Day (Thursday) morning session:
* Six Thirty-minute Essay Questions

Second Day (Thursday) afternoon session:
* Six Thirty-minute Essay Questions

Connecticut will accept MBE scores from other jurisdictions and from prior administrations of the bar examination. Scores are valid for three administrations.

Grading of the Connecticut Bar Exam: Your essay scores are scaled on the same scaling as the MBE (a low of 0 to a high of 200).
MBE: 50%
Essay scores: 50%
Your scaled MBE and essay scores are then combined to determine who passes.

Connecticut generally releases the results of the Summer exam in mid-October and the results of the Winter exam in mid-May.

*MPRE -- You must receive EITHER a scaled score of 80 on the MPRE or a grade of C or better or "Pass" in a law-school ethics course within four years of sitting for the Connecticut Bar Exam.

Admission on Motion: (i.e., without having to sit for the bar exam)
1. You must be a graduate of an ABA-accredited law school (or of Massachusetts School of Law or Southern New England Law School).
2. You must be admitted to the bar of another jurisdiction.
3. The other jurisdiction must have a similar policy by which Connecticut attorneys can be admitted without taking that jurisdiction's bar exam.