Bar Professors Provides Private Tutoring for Repeat Takers for the UBE. North Carolina, Florida, the MBE, UBE, New York and California.
Currently,
36 states use the UBE. Indiana will be
the latest state to join the UBE. Here
is what Indiana and its neighboring states of Illinois, Ohio, Kentucky and
Michigan are doing for their bar exams.
Indiana
The
Study Commission on the Future of the Indiana Bar Exam has completed its review
of the state’s bar exam and is now recommending the Hoosier state join the UBE
movement. Since Indiana already uses the Multistate Bar Exam and the Multistate
Performance Test components of the UBE, completely transitioning would require
the Indiana essay portion to be replaced with the Multistate Essay Exam.
Indiana’s
overall pass rate for July 2019 was 65%
Illinois
Illinois
switched to the UBE in July 2019, about three years after the Illinois State
Bar Association endorsed a recommendation that the state adopt the national
test. Illinois passing score is 266.
Illinois’s
overall pass rate for July 2019 was 71%
Ohio
Ohio plans to implement the UBE in July 2020. Ohio will only have to swap its 12 essay questions for the MEE in order to switch to the national exam since it is presently using the MBE and MPT.
Essays
on the current Ohio exam count for a little more than 53% of the total score.
However, the UBE would shift the weight so the MBE’s 200 multiple choice
questions would comprise 50% of the score while the multistate essay exam would
make up 30%. Ohio’s passing score will be 270.
Ohio’s
overall pass rate for July 2019 was 73%
Kentucky
After
a multiyear comprehensive review of its bar exam, the Kentucky Supreme Court
followed the
advice of the Kentucky Bar Admission Review Commission and rejected the
adoption of the UBE in December 2016. But retired Kentucky Justice Bill
Cunningham, who co-led the commission, expects the Bluegrass State will reverse
course since the UBE failed by only one vote back then, and the composition of
the state’s supreme court today seems to be more favorable toward the national
test.
Kentucky’s
overall pass rate for July 2019 was 66%
Michigan
Michigan
appears to have no plans to even consider adopting the UBE. Currently the
state’s bar exam consists of 15 Michigan-specific essay questions and the MBE.
Michigan’s
overall pass rate for July 2019 was 61%.
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