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The New Mexico 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):
* Six Essay Questions
* Two 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.

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

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

Grading of the New Mexico Bar Exam: New Mexico 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 averaged. If the average is 130 or higher (for instance, a 125 on the MBE and a 138 on the combined essay/MPT day), you pass the New Mexico Bar Exam.

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

*MPRE Minimum: 75

Admission on Motion:

New Mexico does NOT permit admission on motion.

To be admitted to the New Mexico bar, you must take and pass the New Mexico bar exam.