Illinois Officially Adopts the Uniform Bar Exam (Finally!)

Illinois Officially Adopts the Uniform Bar Exam (Finally!)

The Illinois Board of Law Examiners announced on June 8 that it is officially adopting the Uniform Bar Exam (UBE). It is the 30th state to do adopt the Uniform Bar Exam. It has been considering adoption of the UBE since 2016. You can read the full announcement here. Relevant portions of the announcement for those taking the Illinois bar exam or hoping to transfer their score have been copied below.

Illinois Officially Adopts the Uniform Bar Exam (Finally!)

The first UBE administration will be in July 2019. The format of the Illinois bar examination will change from three Illinois Essay questions, one Multistate Performance Test (MPT) task, six Multistate Essay Exam (MEE) questions and the 200 question Multistate Bar Exam (MBE-multiple choice) to two MPT tasks, six MEE questions, and the MBE. In other words, an additional MPT will replace the Illinois Essay questions.

The minimum total scaled score required to pass the Illinois bar examination will be 266 on a 400-point scale.

The application to take the Uniform Bar Exam in Illinois will be available in January 2019. If you are looking to transfer a score to Illinois, the Illinois announcement stated that a transferred UBE score to Illinois may not be more than four years old and must be a total scaled 266 or higher, and can be accepted even if the applicant did not pass the exam in the jurisdiction from which the score is being transferred.

The new daily schedule for standard test takers will be as follows:

Tuesday                                  Wednesday

MPT (two tasks, 3 hours)        MBE AM (100 questions, 3 hours)

MEE (six essays, 3 hours)      MBE PM (100 questions, 3 hours)

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