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Michigan Bar Exam Essay Frequency Chart

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Michigan Bar Exam Essay Frequency Chart

Michigan Bar Exam essay frequency chart: Wondering what might be coming up on the essay portion of the Michigan Bar Exam? Check out our Michigan Bar Exam essay frequency chart. (You can click on it to make it larger or you can see the close-up chart below!)

NOTE: Michigan is now administering the Uniform Bar Exam (UBE) as of the February 2023 exam. This post will no longer be updated. Please go here for a UBE frequency chart.

Some less-tested topics (like Agency, Conflict of Laws, Equity, and No-Fault) have been making a comeback. You can also see that some of the traditionally tested topics, such as Workers’ Compensation and Corporations, have not been tested as much. (Professional Responsibility was suddenly not tested beginning in 2016!)

We explain more trends in this video:

Michigan Bar Exam Essay Frequency Chart

This close-up Michigan Bar Exam essay frequency chart makes this even more evident:

So what does this Michigan Bar Exam essay frequency chart mean for you? How does it affect your studying?

It means a few things:

First, you should study all of the subjects! Even Equity, No-Fault, Partnership, Commercial Paper/Negotiable Instruments. . . . they are all fair game on the bar exam!

Second, you should still focus on the subjects that are almost always tested (Contracts, Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Evidence, etc.). Even if you have a “weird” bar exam (like those taking the February 2016 and July 2016 Michigan Bar Exams did), remember that 80% of the exam is still “traditional” in that it tests traditional subjects. So, while you should not ignore any subject, you should also not spend, for example, three days trying to master Conflict of Laws, either.

Third, it is a good idea to know the highly tested topics within a subject. In July 2016 when Equity was tested, they tested the same topic tested in July 2011. And when No-Fault was tested in July 2016, it was the same topic tested in July 2014, February 2011, etc. You can learn the highly tested areas by either carefully perusing past essays or by buying our book on How to Pass the Michigan Bar Exam (which you can purchase below or read more about by clicking the link!).

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