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

First Day (Tuesday):
* Six Essay Questions
* One Multistate Performance Test (MPT) Question
* Note: "By Order of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, one PT question, developed by the Board of Law Examiners, may be used in lieu of a Multistate Performance Test question as a component of the essay portion of the bar examination."

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.

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

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

Fortunately, New Jersey accepts the MBE taken concurrently in ANY jurisdiction. So if you want to take the New Jersey and Pennsylvania bar exams at the same time (local in Pennsylvania on Tuesday, local in New Jersey on Thursday), be sure to arrange to take the MBE in Pennsylvania (on Wednesday). This way your MBE score will count for both states.

Grading of the Pennsylvania Bar Exam: The performance test question has a weight of 1.5 times an essay. A combined score is created for the essays and the MPT. That score is then scaled to the same scaling as the MBE (i.e., 0-200). Your scaled score on the MBE is multiplied by .45. Your scaled score on the six essay questions and the MPT is multiplied by .55. These two numbers are added together. If the new number is 272 or higher (roughly a 136 MBE scaled score and a 136 essay/MPT scaled score), you pass the

Pennsylvania Bar Exam. Pennsylvania generally announces in October on its website when the results of the Summer bar exam will be released, and in early April on it website when the results of the Winter bar exam will be released.

*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 be admitted to the bar of another jurisdiction and must have practiced law (or taught law at an accredited U.S. law school) for at least five of the prior seven years.
3. The other jurisdiction must have a similar policy by which Pennsylvania attorneys can be admitted without taking that jurisdiction's bar exam.