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Posted by: Julia Wilburn on Sep 3, 2024

The National Conference of Bar Examiners (NCBE) on Thursday announced that the national mean scaled score for the July 2024 Multistate Bar Examination (MBE) was 141.8, an increase of about 1.3 points compared to the July 2023 mean of 140.5 and the highest July MBE mean since 2013, excluding the summer and fall 2020 administrations. The MBE, one of three sections that make up the bar exam in most U.S. jurisdictions, consists of 200 multiple-choice questions answered over six hours. This July, 49,844 examinees took the MBE, an increase of more than 8% compared to the 45,968 examinees who sat for the exam in July 2023. Reuters reports that compared with the previous year, 32 states saw increases in pass rates, 11 saw decreases and seven saw no change.