Bar Exam & Admissions Requirements

For information regarding the California Bar Examination and the College’s bar exam prep resources, please visit the UC Law SF Bar Passage Support page on Sharknet. For information on UC Law SF courses that cover bar tested subjects, please review the list of Courses that Cover Bar Tested Subjects and Skills. The following information provides an overview of the Multistate Bar Examination and the bar examination and state bar admission requirements for California, Hawaii, and New York. Information on the Uniform Bar Examination is also included below.

Multistate Bar Examination (MBE)

The majority of states include the Multistate Bar Examination (MBE) as a component of their examination. The MBE is a six-hour test and consists of 200 multiple choice questions from the following subjects:

• Constitutional Law

• Contracts/Sales

• Criminal Law and Procedure

• Evidence

• Federal

• Civil Procedure

• Real Property

• Torts

Each of these subjects is presently offered at UC Law SF. As used by the National Conference of Bar Examiners, however, Criminal Law includes Criminal Procedure, Real Property includes Future Interests, and Contracts includes Article 2, Revised Article 1, and Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code (general coverage of those articles is available in the first year Contracts course and the Sales and Leases of Goods course).