The Pennsylvania Bar Exam is a two-day exam -- Tuesday and Wednesday -- with the Pennsylvania essays and performance test on Tuesday and the multiple-choice Multistate Bar Exam on Wednesday.

First Day (Tuesday) morning session:
* Three hours
* Two Essay Questions
* One Multistate Performance Test (MPT) Question

First Day (Tuesday) afternoon session:
* Three hours
* Four Essay Questions

Second Day (Wednesday) morning session:
* Three hours
* Multistate Bar Examination (MBE)
* 100 multiple-choice questions

Second Day (Wednesday) afternoon session:
* Three hours
* Multistate Bar Examination (MBE)
* 100 multiple-choice questions

Pennsylvania requires that you sit for the MBE as part of the Pennsylvania bar exam.

Pennsylvania does NOT accept your score from an MBE taken in another jurisdiction.

Fortunately, New Jersey accepts the MBE taken concurrently in ANY jurisdiction. So if you want to take the New Jersey and Pennsylvania bar exams at the same time (local in Pennsylvania on Tuesday, local in New Jersey on Thursday), be sure to arrange to take the MBE in Pennsylvania (on Wednesday). This way your MBE score will count for both states.

Passing Standards: By Order of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, a successful applicant for admission to the bar of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in addition to the other examination requirements approved by prior Orders of the Court that are not superseded hereby, must attain a scaled score of 272 on the combined scores of the PT, essay examination and MBE.

The six answers to the essay examination and the PT (valued at 1.5 times an essay question) will be graded, totaled and scaled to the MBE. The combined essay and PT scores will be weighted at 55%, and the MBE score will be weighted at 45% of the total scaled score. The scaled scores of the PT/essay examination and MBE will then be combined to determine whether a scaled score of 272 or higher has been attained. Please visit our web site in early April (for February) or October (for July) for the official date for release of results.

Note: Applicants are required to sit for all sessions of the bar examination (both the morning and afternoon sessions of the PT/Essay Examination and MBE), and make a good faith effort to answer each question. Failure to do so will result in disqualification.

Pennsylvania generally announces in October on its website when the results of the Summer bar exam will be released, and in early April on it website when the results of the Winter bar exam will be released.

*MPRE Minimum: 75

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.
2. You must be admitted to the bar of another jurisdiction and must have practiced law (or taught law at an accredited U.S. law school) for at least five of the prior seven years.
3. The other jurisdiction must have a similar policy by which Pennsylvania attorneys can be admitted without taking that jurisdiction's bar exam.