Exam Dates

The Indiana Bar Examination is administered twice each year:

1. on the last Tuesday and Wednesday in February, and
2. on the last Tuesday and Wednesday in July

Click here for the list of exam dates through 2009.

The Exam Site for February and July 2008 will be at PRIMO West. PRIMO is located at: 2353 Hadley Road, Plainfield, Indiana 46168.

Deadlines

Exam Content.

The examination will consist of three parts:

1. Multistate Performance Test (MPT)
2. Indiana Essay Examination (IEE), and
3. Multistate Bar Examination (MBE)

The three parts of the test are weighted as follows:

• MPT 20%
• IEE 30%
• MBE 50%

The Indiana Essay subject areas tested will come from the following nine subjects (which the MBE does not cover):

• Administrative Law
• Business Organizations
• Commercial Law
• Indiana Constitutional Law
• Family Law
• Pleading and Practice
• Personal Property
• Taxation
• Wills, Trusts & Estates

The essay questions will be unlabeled, will not necessarily be limited to one subject matter, and will call for an answer based on the law of Indiana.

The passing score is a combined scaled score of 264. The MPT and IEE raw scores are scaled to the MBE scores using the standard deviation method.

Exam Results and Admission Ceremony Information

Special Information for Veterans.

The State Board of Law Examiners has received approval status for the Indiana Bar Examination from the Department of Veterans Affairs. Eligible Veterans and dependents may be eligible for reimbursement of bar examination fees.

For further information contact:

Department of Veterans Affairs
P.O. Box 4616
Buffalo, New York 14240-4616
1-888-GIBILL-1 (1-888-442-4551)
www.gibill.va.gov

This is a benefit of the Veterans Administration, so the Board of Law Examiners plays no role in securing these benefits. Please make any requests for further information directly to the office listed above.

Procedure for Review

Request for Verification of MBE Score. An applicant may request a handscored verification of his MBE score. This request can be made by mailing a written request, together with a check made payable to “ACT, Inc” in the amount of $7.60 to the Indiana Board of Law Examiners office. The Board office will submit a request to American College Testing (ACT). Once the MBE has been handscored, ACT will notify the Indiana Board of Law Examiners of the verification of score or of any changes. The Board office will then, in turn, notify the applicant.

Request for Review (Appeal). Effective January 1, 2005, applicants are no longer limited to taking five (5) examinations. To request review please read and follow the Procedure for Review.

Release of MBE Scores

The National Conference of Bar Examiners (NCBE) has been approved to release MBE scores to applicants. To obtain your MBE score, print the forms from the NCBE website and mail the fees and form as instructed at the bottom of the form. The release of MBE scores must go through NCBE (checks/money orders payable to NCBE). The Indiana Board of Law Examiners does not release MBE scores. This approval is retroactive and applies to any Indiana Bar Examination given from February 2001 to current exams.

Score Transfer Information

Transferring MBE scores to Indiana. Indiana accepts MBE transfer scores on concurrent exams only. With proper scheduling an applicant may be permitted to take the bar examination in two states in a period of three days. As Indiana gives its local examination on Tuesday, the alternate state must administer its local examination on Thursday. The applicant would take the Indiana examination on Tuesday, the MBE in either state on Wednesday and the alternate state’s local examination on Thursday. Arrangements to use the MBE score in conjunction with another state must be made through both Indiana and the alternate jurisdiction.

Transferring MBE scores to another jurisdiction. To request your score be transferred to another jurisdiction, please visit the National Conference of Bar Examiners website at http://www.ncbex.org/tests/mbe/transfer_explanation.htm, click on “The Multistate Bar Examination (MBE)”, then “MBE Score Transfer” read and follow directions given. A link to the form to request a score transfer is found in the text of this section of their website.

Request for a Score Advisory. A score advisory is used to inform applicants whether their score is sufficient for admission without examination in the District of Columbia and/or Minnesota. You will not receive your actual score. To request a score advisory visit the National Conference of Bar Examiners website at http://www.ncbex.org/tests/mbe/transfer_explanation.htm, click on “The Multistate Bar Examination (MBE)”, then “MBE Score Transfer”. The same form is used for both a score transfer request and a score advisory request.