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

First Day (Tuesday):
* One Multistate Performance Test (MPT)
* Three Illinois Essays
* Six Multistate Essay Exam (MEE) questions

Second Day (Wednesday) morning session:
* Multistate Bar Examination (MBE)
* 200 Multiple-Choice questions.

You may not use a score taken in another jurisdiction at the same time you sit for the Illinois local day. If you are taking another bar exam at the same time, you must take the MBE in Illinois. If, however, you have taken the MBE in another jurisdiction (from the preceding two exams), and received a scaled score of at least 140, and passed that jurisdiction's bar exam, you may use that MBE score in Illinois.

Grading of the Illinois Bar Exam: The essays are worth about 43%. The MPT is worth about 7%. The MBE is worth about 50% (The exact weights vary, based on the difficulty of the particular exam.) The scores are combined. The results are generally released two to two-and-a-half months after the Summer exam, and about a month and a half after the Winter exam.

*MPRE: Minimum Passing Score: 80. You must complete at least two-thirds of the credits toward graduation from law school before taking the MPRE for your score to count in Illinois.

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 and meet the educational requirements for admission on exam.
2. You must be admitted to the bar of another jurisdiction and must have practiced law actively and continuously for five of the prior seven years.
3. The other jurisdiction must have a similar policy by which Illinois attorneys can be admitted without taking that jurisdiction's bar exam. Currently, these jurisdictions are: Alaska, Colorado, Connecticut, the District of Columbia, Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, and the Virgin Islands.
4. You must prove your intent to practice law physically in Illinois for at least 500 hours a year. 5. You must never have previously taken and failed the Illinois bar exam.