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The Georgia Bar Exam is a two-day exam -- Tuesday and Wednesday -- with the essays and performance questions on Tuesday and the MBE on Wednesday.

First Day (Tuesday):
* Four 45-minute Essay Questions
* One 90-minute Multistate Performance Test (MPT) Question

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.

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

Grading of the Georgia Bar Exam: Your essays and your MPT are graded, and their scores combined. Your combined essay/MPT score is then scaled, on the same scaling as the MBE (0 to 200). The scaled essay/MPT score is then combined with your scaled MBE score. If the combination equals or exceeds 270 (roughly a 135 on each), you pass. If your combined score is in the 265-269 range, your essays will be regraded. But you must have a scaled MBE score of at least 115 for your essays to be read in the first place (A lesser score would make it statistically highly unlikely that you could pass).

Georgia generally releases the results of the Summer exam in late October and the results of the Winter exam in late May.

*Georgia 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 have taken and passed the bar exam and be admitted to the bar of at least one other jurisdiction.
3. You must have actively practiced law for at least five of the prior seven years.
4. At least one of the other jurisdictions to which you are admitted must have a similar policy by which Georgia attorneys can be admitted without taking that jurisdiction's bar exam.
5. You must never have taken and failed the Georgia Bar Exam.
6. You must never have been disciplined by the bar or other disciplining authority of any U.S. jurisdiction.
7. You must never have been denied a certification of fitness to practice law in Georgia or any other jurisdiction.

Check with the Georgia Board of Bar Examiners for details and filing fees.