The Kansas Bar Exam is a two-day exam -- Tuesday and Wednesday -- with Kansas Essay Examination (KEE) on Tuesday and the Multistate Bar Exam (MBE) on Wednesday.

Effective February 2006, the Kansas Supreme Court will no longer include the Multistate Essay Examination on the Kansas Bar Exam. A new format for essay questions was adopted. There are 16 questions, all drafted by the Kansas Board of Law Examiners.

The Kansas Essay Examination (KEE) consists of sixteen essay questions drafted and graded by the Kansas Board of Law Examiners. Each essay is designed to take the applicant approximately 22 minutes. Subject matter includes the following: personal property, domestic relations and family law, noncorporate business organizations, agency and employment, U.C.C. and commercial transactions, legal ethics, contracts, corporations, real property, constitutional law, criminal law, criminal procedure, Kansas and federal civil procedure, torts, wills, trusts and administration, conflict of laws, and evidence. Each session, morning and afternoon, contains eight essay questions. Each session is three hours in length.

The basic emphasis in grading the essay examination is upon a demonstration of:

(a) the ability to analyze and identify the legal issues raised by a novel and unclassified factual situation;
(b) the ability to separate relevant material from that which is not;
(c) knowledge and understanding of the fundamental principles of law applicable to the probable solution of such issues; and
(d) logical and plausible analytical reasoning based upon the applicable legal principles in reaching a definite conclusion in a clear, conciseand well organized composition.

First Day (Tuesday) morning and afternoon session:
* Three hours per session
* 8 Kansas essay questions per session

Second Day (Wednesday) morning and afternoon session:
* Three hours per session
* 100 MBE multiple-choice questions per session

Kansas will accept an MBE scaled score of 120 or higher from another jurisdiction if from a concurrent bar exam or if received within 13 months prior to the current bar exam, but only if the applicant passed the entire exam in one sitting in the transferring jurisdiction.

Grading of the Kansas Bar Exam: Your essays are graded and then converted to a scaled score on the same scaling as the Multistate Bar Exam (a low of 0 to a high of 200). The two scores -- Kansas essay and MBE -- are then averaged. If your average score is 133 or higher, you pass the Kansas Bar Exam.

Kansas generally releases the results of the Summer bar exam in mid-September and the results of the Winter bar exam in mid-April.

*MPRE You must receive a scaled score of 80 on the MPRE prior to or within 180 days of taking the Kansas Bar Exam.

Admission on Motion: Kansas does NOT permit admission on motion.

To be admitted to the Kansas bar, you must take and pass the bar exam. However, Kansas grants special temporary licenses to attorneys who are employed by an entity engaged in a business in Kansas, other than the practice of law, and who will receive their entire employment compensation from that entity.

Note: Kansas permits you to sit for the Kansas Bar Exam before your law school graduation, provided that you graduate within 30 days after taking the bar exam.