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Courses tested on the California and New York Bar Exams California Bar Exam The California Bar Exam is a 3-day exam. On the first and third days, there are three essay questions in the morning and a “performance exam” in the afternoon. The second day is the Multistate Bar Exam (MBE), a 200-question, multiple-choice exam. There are 100 questions in the morning, and 100 in the afternoon. The following subjects are tested on the essay portion of the exam: Civil Procedure Community Property Contracts/Sales Constitutional Law Corporations Criminal Law/Procedure Evidence Professional Responsibility Real Property Remedies Torts Wills and Trusts The following subjects are tested on the MBE: Contracts/Sales Constitutional Law Criminal Law/Procedure Evidence Real Property Torts The Performance Test asks examinees to draft memos or discovery documents or arguments or the like using a “closed universe" of facts, case law, statutes, etc. New York Bar Exam The New York Bar Exam is a two-day exam – Tuesday and Wednesday – with the New York essays and Mulitistate Performance Test (MPT) on Tuesday and the multiple-choice Multistate Bar Exam (MBE) on Wednesday. On the first day, there are three 40-minute essay questions and 50 New York multiple choice questions in the 3 hour, 15 minute morning session. That afternoon, there is a 90-minute MPT question and two 45-minute essay questions. The second day is the MBE, a 200-question, multiple-choice exam. There are 100 questions in the morning, and 100 in the afternoon. If you take two bar exams at the same time (local in New York on Tuesday, local in the other jurisdiction on Thursday, MBE in either state on Wednesday), New York will accept the score of the MBE taken in either state. The most popular combinations are NY-NJ, NY-CT, and NY-MA. The requirements keep changing, so check first with BOTH states. In addition to testing New York distinctions for the six MBE subjects (Constitutional Law, Contracts/Sales, Criminal Law/Procedure, Evidence, Real Property, and Torts), the following subjects are tested on the New York portion of the exam: Agency Commercial Paper Conflict of Laws Corporations Domestic Relations Equitable Remedies (Equity) Federal Jurisdiction Future Interests Mortgages No-Fault Insurance New York Practice & Procedure New York Professional Responsibility Partnership Personal Property Secured Transactions Trusts Wills Workers' Compensation.
