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

First Day (Tuesday):
* Nine Essay Questions
* Two 90-minute Multistate Performance Test (MPT) 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.

Colorado requires that you sit for the MBE as part of the Colorado bar exam. Colorado does NOT accept your score from an MBE taken in another jurisdiction.

Grading of the Colorado Bar Exam:
MBE: Colorado grades your essays and the MPT and converts the total raw score to a scaled score on the same scaling as the MBE (i.e., low of 0, high of 200).

The essay/MPT combination is worth 50%. The MBE is worth the other
50%.

The two scaled scores are added together. If they equal or exceed 276 (for instance, a 138 on the MBE and a 138 on the combined essay/MPT day), you pass the Colorado Bar Exam. Your Scaled MBE Score + Your Scaled (Essay Score + MPT Score) = Your Colorado Bar Exam Score [The MPT questions equal 40% of the local day. The essays equal 60% of the local day. In other words, one MPT question equals about three Colorado essays.]

Colorado generally releases the results of the Summer exam in late September and the results of the Winter exam in late April.

*MPRE -- Colorado requires a scaled score of 85 on the MPRE, taken within two years of your application to take the Colorado 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.
2. You must be admitted to the bar of another jurisdiction and must have actively practiced law for at least five of the seven years prior to applying to Colorado.
3. The other jurisdiction must have a similar policy by which Colorado attorneys can be admitted on motion, without taking that jurisdiction's bar exam.

Graduates of Non-U.S. Law Schools: A graduate of a law school outside the United States may be eligible to sit for the Colorado Bar Exam if:
1. Applicant's law school is in an English-speaking common-law country.
2. Applicant is admitted to practice law in that country.
3. Applicant has practiced law for five of the preceding seven years.

For further bar exam and bar refresher information, contact:
Colorado Board of Law Examiners
1560 Broadway Street Suite 1820 Denver, CO 80202
Telephone: 303-866-6626

Exam Dates, Locations: Summer 2007: Tuesday, Wednesday, July 24, 25,?2007