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Ohio bar exam format, subjects, scoring, pass rates, dates, and bar review course options. Comprehensive resources to help pass the Ohio Bar Exam.
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Ohio Bar Exam Format
Overview
The Ohio Bar Exam is administered over three days.
Day 1
The written portion of the exam is administered on the first and third days of the Ohio bar exam. The written portion of the bar exam consists of the Ohio essay questions and the Multistate Performance Test (“MPT”). On the first day, you will have three hours to answer two MPT questions. You will have three hours to answer six Ohio essay questions.
Day 2
The Multistate Bar Exam (“MBE”) is administered on the second day of the Ohio 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.
Day 3
On the third day, you will have three hours to answer six Ohio essay questions.
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Useful Links
- Ohio Bar Review Course – AmeriBar has been helping students pass the Ohio bar exam for over 15 years.
- OhioBarExam.com – Detailed Information and resources for Ohio bar exam takers.
- MBEQuestionBank.com – Online question bank with over 2500 simulated MBE questions.
Exam Dates
- February 23-24, 2021
- July 27-28, 2021
- February 25-26, 2022
- July 26-27, 2022
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Ohio Bar Admissions
Office of Bar Admissions
Supreme Court of Ohio
65 S. Front Street, 5th Floor
Columbus, OH 43215-3431
Supreme Court of Ohio
65 S. Front Street, 5th Floor
Columbus, OH 43215-3431
Ohio MPRE Score Requirement
Ohio requires bar exam applicants to pass the Multistate Professional Responsibility Exam (“MPRE”). You must score 85 or higher on the MPRE in order to pass in Ohio.
Scoring/Grading and Results
In order to pass the Ohio bar exam, you must score at least 405. This equates to 135, based on the MBE’s 200-point scale. The scores of the exam sections are weighted as follows: MPT 13.3%, Ohio essays 53.3%, and MBE 33%. Ohio releases the February Ohio Bar Exam results by early May, and the July Ohio Bar Exam results in late October.
Reciprocity
You may apply for admission without examination if you fulfill the applicable requirements, some of which include:
- the general requirements for admission to practice law in Ohio; and
- passing a bar exam and having been admitted as an attorney in some other state or in the District of Columbia; and
- practicing law full time for 5 of the past 10 years; and
- not having taken and failed an Ohio bar exam.
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Regent Law School
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“I felt so prepared and so well-versed in every area of the law for the exam. I never felt that way with Barbri the first couple of times I took it. I can’t say enough about how well-prepared I felt and how relieved I was after failing twice to come back and just nail it after six years of absence from the law.”

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Ohio Bar Exam Subjects
Ohio Essay Subjects
- Business Associations
- Civil Procedure
- Commercial Transactions
- Constitutional Law
- Contracts
- Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure
- Evidence
- Legal Ethics
- Property (Real and Personal)
- Torts
- Wills and Intestate Succession
MBE Subjects
- Civil Procedure
- Constitutional Law
- Contracts and Sales
- Criminal Law and Procedure
- Evidence
- Property
- Torts

Heidi
Thomas Cooley Law School
Heidi was unsuccessful twice with Barbri before enrolling in AmeriBar bar exam tutoring.
Heidi describes how AmeriBar was instrumental in raising her score from 121 to 144.
Ohio Bar Exam Statewide Pass Rates
Exam Date | First | Repeat | Total |
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July 2019 | 82% | 29% | 73% |
February 2019 | 66% | 43% | 53% |
July 2018 | 79% | 27% | 70% |
February 2018 | 67% | 42% | 52% |
July 2017 | 77% | 35% | 71% |
February 2017 | 66% | 42% | 51% |
July 2016 | 76% | 35% | 70% |
February 2016 | 70% | 45% | 57% |
July 2015 | 80% | 32% | 75% |
February 2015 | 72% | 56% | 64% |

AmeriBar has been helping students pass the Ohio bar exam for over 17 years.