North Carolina Bar Exam

North Carolina Bar Exam Format

The North Carolina bar exam takes two days and consists of the North Carolina Essays and the Multistate Bar Exam (“MBE”). North Carolina law is tested on the North Carolina bar exam.

North Carolina Essays
North Carolina tests 12 North Carolina essays. Essays are 30-minutes each. Subjects may include:

Business Associations (Agency, Corporations, and Partnership)
Civil Procedure
Constitutional Law
Contracts
Criminal Law
Criminal Procedure
Equity
Evidence
Family Law
Legal Ethics
Real Property
Secured Transactions
Uniform Commercial Code
Taxation
Torts
Trusts and Decedents’ Estates
Wills

MBE (Multiple Choice)
North Carolina uses the standard MBE. Subjects include:

Civil Procedure
Constitutional Law
Contracts (Common Law, Sales/UCC Art. 2)
Criminal Law
Criminal Procedure
Evidence
Real Property
Torts

MBE Score Transfer
North Carolina does not accept MBE scores transferred from other jurisdictions.

North Carolina Bar Exam Testing Schedule

Day 1
Morning – 6 Essays (3 hours)
Afternoon – 6 Essays (3 hours)

Day 2
Morning – MBE Part I (100 questions; 3 hours)
Afternoon – MBE Part II (100 questions; 3 hours)

North Carolina Bar Exam Dates and Application

The North Carolina bar exam is held twice each year on the last Tuesday and Wednesday of February and July. Applications can be found on the North Carolina Board of Law Examiners Website.

Grading

The passing score is 350 points. Essay questions will not be re-graded after the results are released.