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Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Sep 13, 2023

The National Conference of Bar Examiners recently announced that the NextGen Bar Exam will be a nine-hour test administered over one-and-a-half days, Reuters reports. The schedule would include two three-hour sessions on the first day and one three-hour session on the second day. This compares with the current Uniform Bar Exam, which is about 12 hours long and taken over two days. The conference says the new exam is set to debut in July 2026, which means that this fall's incoming law students would be the first to take the new exam when they graduate. But, there is no hard deadline for jurisdictions to make the switch, Law.com reports. The new exam is intended to be more skills-oriented but many in the legal industry remain skeptical of the proposed questions and shorter duration.