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Important!
If you plan to take the Indiana bar exam, please read.
The examination dates for the Indiana Bar Examination for 2014 are:
February: Tuesday, February 25 July: Tuesday, July 29Wednesday, February 26 Wednesday, July 30
Indiana Bar Exam
The two-day Indiana bar exam contains three (3) components:
(1) Two 90-minute Multistate Performance Test (MPT) questions: “Closed universe”practical problem using instructions, factual data, cases, statutes and other referencematerial supplied by examiners.
(2) Six Indiana essay questions selected from the following subjects:
Business Organizations (Agency, Corporations, LLCs, and Partnerships)Commercial Law (Commercial Paper, Sales, and Secured Transactions)Indiana Constitutional LawFamily LawPleading and PracticePersonal PropertyTaxation (Federal and State)Wills, Trusts & Estates
(3) The Multistate Bar Exam (MBE) consisting of 200 multiple choice questions coveringthe following subjects: Constitutional Law, Contracts, Criminal Law and Procedure,Evidence, Property, and Torts. Civil Procedure will be added in February 2015.
The three tests are weighted as follows: MPT 20%, Indiana Essay Exam 30%, MBE 50%. The passing score is a combined scaled score of 264.
Indiana bar examination applications are available online at:http://www.in.gov/judiciary/ble/exam/index.html