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

First Day (Tuesday):
* Fifteen 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.

Michigan allows you to use an MBE score taken in another jurisdiction if within three years and from a reciprocal jurisdiction. You also must have passed that jurisdiction's bar exam.

Grading of the Michigan Bar Exam: If you score a scaled 150 or higher on the MBE (and you've made a "good faith effort" on the essays), you pass the Michigan Bar Exam automatically, without your essays being read.

Otherwise, your essays are graded and put on the same grade scale as the MBE (0-200). You need an average on the essay and MBE of 135 to pass.

Michigan generally releases the results of the Summer exam in mid-November and the results of the Winter exam in mid-May.

*Michigan MPRE Minimum: 75

Beginning with the July 2009 bar examination, applicants taking the examination as first-time takers must receive a scaled score of 85. That score is valid indefinitely.

For applicants taking the July 2009 bar examination as a re-examinee or as a transferee from a prior exam, the passing scaled score will remain at 75. If such a re-examinee or transferee fails the July 2009 examination, the passing scaled MPRE score will remain at 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 for at least three of the prior five years.
3. You must intend to practice law in Michigan.