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

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

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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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

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Thomas Cooley Law School

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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%

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