MPRE

Multistate Professional Responsibility Examination (MPRE): No applicant can be admitted to the Bar in New York without successfully completing both the New York State bar examination and the MPRE. The MPRE can be taken before or after the bar examination. The MPRE passing score is set by the individual jurisdictions requiring that examination.

Effective with the March 2002 administration of the MPRE, the passing score in New York is a scaled score of 85. However, any New York applicant who took the MPRE prior to March 2002 and attained a scaled score of 72 will be considered as having met the New York requirement.

Any applicant who did not designate New York as the jurisdiction to which the applicant's score should be reported at the time of taking the MPRE must have an official score report sent to the Board by the National Conference of Bar Examiners (NCBE).

The MPRE is administered three times each year, in March, August and November. Applications and information regarding the MPRE is available from NCBE at http://www.ncbex.org/multistate-tests/mpre/.

Since October 1994, Section 520.12 of the Rules of the Court of Appeals has required applicants to file the materials required for admission to the Bar within three years from the date of the initial letter sent by the Board of Law Examiners notifying the applicant of having passed the bar examination. Thus, any applicant who has not taken and passed the MPRE at the time of receipt of notification of having passed the bar examination must pass the MPRE and be certified by the Board to the Supreme Court, Appellate Division within three years.

The Board receives MPRE scores electronically, and matches them to our applicant files by Social Security Number and date of birth. Therefore, if there is an error in your Social Security Number or Date of Birth on your MPRE score report, or if you do not have a Social Security Number and were assigned an identification number by the administrators of the MPRE, you should include that information when you make application to take the New York bar examination. This will enable us to match up your scores manually, and avoid any delay in certification if you are successful on the bar examination. Do not notify us prior to making application for the bar examination, since we do not have any means of storing such information until an application is received.