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Mississippi Bar Exam Info
Mississippi Bar Exam Information
Mississippi bar exam format, subjects, scoring, pass rates, dates, and bar review course options. Comprehensive resources to help pass the Mississippi Bar Exam.
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Mississippi Bar Exam Format
Overview
The Mississippi Bar Exam is administered over two days.
Day 1
The written portion of the exam is administered on the first day of the Mississippi bar exam. The written portion of the bar exam consists of the Multistate Performance Test (“MPT”), the Mississippi Essay Exam (“MSE”), and the Multistate Essay Exam (“MEE”). You will have three and one-half hours to answer one MPT question and four MSE questions. You will have four hours to answer two MSE questions and the six MEE questions.
Day 2
The Multistate Bar Exam (“MBE”) is administered on the second day of the Mississippi bar exam. The MBE is a multiple-choice test containing 200 questions. The MBE is split into a morning and afternoon session. Each session consists of 100 questions. You have three hours to complete each session.
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Useful Links
- Mississippi Bar Review Course – AmeriBar has been helping students pass the Mississippi bar exam for over 15 years.
- MississippiBarExam.com – Detailed Information and resources for Mississippi bar exam takers.
- MBEQuestionBank.com – Online question bank with over 2500 simulated MBE questions.
Exam Dates
- July 30-31, 2024
- February 25-26, 2025
- July 29-30, 2025
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Mississippi Bar Admissions
Mississippi Board of Bar Admissions
P.O. Box 1449
Jackson, MS 39215-1449
P.O. Box 1449
Jackson, MS 39215-1449
Mississippi MPRE Score Requirement
Mississippi requires bar exam applicants to pass the Multistate Professional Responsibility Exam (“MPRE”). You must score 75 or higher on the MPRE in order to pass in Mississippi.
Scoring/Grading and Results
In order to pass the Mississippi bar exam, you must score at least 132 on the MBE’s 200-point scale. The scores of the exam sections are weighted as follows: MBE 40%, MSE 30%, MEE 15%, and MPT 15%. Mississippi releases the February bar exam in mid-April, and the July exam results in mid-September.
Reciprocity
Upon motion, the State of Mississippi consents to Mississippi bar exam reciprocity and permits admission of an attorney to the Mississippi Bar without taking the exam, provided that several conditions are fulfilled, including that:
- The attorney must have obtained their Juris Doctor from a law school approved by the American Bar Association as of their graduation;
- The attorney is barred in a reciprocal jurisdiction; and
- The attorney has practiced law for at least five years in a reciprocal jurisdiction.
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Jennifer
Regent Law School
Jennifer failed twice with Barbri. “I felt so prepared…for the exam. I never felt that way the first couple of times. I can’t say enough about how I felt after failing twice to come back and just nail it after six years of absence from the law.”
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Mississippi Bar Exam Subjects
Mississippi Essay Subjects
- Administrative Law
- Contracts
- Business Organizations
- Bankruptcy
- Commercial Paper
- Conflict of Laws
- Domestic Relations
- Federal Civil Procedure
- Federal Income Tax
- Federal Jurisdiction and Rules of Civil Procedure
- Constitutional Law
- Practice and Procedure of Mississippi Courts
- Professional Conduct and Ethics
- Sales
- Secured Transactions
- Torts
- Uniform Commercial Code
- Wills, Estates, Trusts, and Future Interests (including basic federal tax consequences)
- Worker’s Compensation
MBE Subjects
- Civil Procedure
- Constitutional Law
- Contracts and Sales
- Criminal Law and Procedure
- Evidence
- Property
- Torts
Heidi
Thomas Cooley Law School
Heidi, who failed twice with BarBri, describes how AmeriBar was instrumental in raising her score from 121 to 144.
Mississippi Bar Exam Statewide Pass Rates
| Exam Date | First | Repeat | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| July 2023 | 79% | 45% | 73% |
| February 2023 | 48% | 24% | 38% |
| July 2022 | 75% | 33% | 71% |
| February 2022 | 74% | 32% | 59% |
| July 2021 | 75% | 40% | 68% |
| February 2021 | 66% | 37% | 58% |
| July 2020 | 82% | 55% | 78% |
| February 2020 | 67% | 41% | 55% |
| July 2019 | 82% | 33% | 67% |
| February 2019 | 73% | 46% | 61% |
| July 2018 | 61% | 23% | 52% |
| February 2018 | 65% | 22% | 41% |
| July 2017 | 66% | 37% | 58% |
| February 2017 | 57% | 22% | 41% |
| July 2016 | 75% | 53% | 71% |
| February 2016 | 76% | 41% | 65% |
AmeriBar has been helping students pass the Mississippi bar exam for over 20 years.