New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. Hey all, I accidentally posted this in the Law School page. Yet, personally, having just taken the exam, and having a general feeling as to how I may have done on parts of it, especially compared to the prior attempt, and I was curious as to how my totally estimated performance in certain sections might affect the overall score. [Guide] Calculating a UBE Bar Exam score. This guide is simply meant to help those that are curious to learn how the bar exam is graded to form an understanding for how well you do in certain parts of the exam affects the overall grade. More and more states are adopting the UBE, including mine, so I figured this guide might be helpful for anyone in one of these states. The MEE and MPT scores are scaled to the MBE and UBE total scores are calculated by NCBE. Your overall score The .625 I scored in July wound up being a measly 260, and I needed 270 :oops: Hope this is of some use to people! Because I'm still waiting on results in another jurisdiction (that won't be out before Thanksgiving most likely) and I'm trying to gauge where my performance may have racked up in other states. For current and former Law School Redditors. UBE was no picnic. And then the MBE, the final score being scaled due to factors unknown, is worth 50%, and is out of 200 total (not 190!). I get that the score obviously doesn't matter beyond whatever is passing in your respective state. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. 18 votes, 39 comments. Note: if you are in New York, please check out this post on how to dissect your New York Bar Exam score report. Can reddit help me rank myself? While the Uniform Bar Exam, or UBE, is uniformly administered, UBE passing scores by state do vary.So, if you’ve recently learned that the UBE is part of the process for you to become a licensed attorney in your state, you’re no doubt very curious about what score you need to get on the UBE to pass. This is NOT a forum for legal advice. Why would you possibly care?? I'm always curious. You passed. you can port your UBE score to many UBE states, you can port your MBE score to even more limited states and some jurisdictions permit admission without exam so long as you have met certain requirements. NCBE scores the MBE component of the UBE. My bar exam review class prof. She's 28 years old lol. A Uniform Bar Exam (UBE) score report will have a few things you will want to pay attention to: your overall score, your MBE scaled score, and your written score. By using our Services or clicking I agree, you agree to our use of cookies. Lots of us have read that the sections have different weightings, but few understand how that translates to an actual score. The MBE is weighted 50%, the MEE 30%, and the MPT 20%. Press J to jump to the feed. I decided to do this dumb little exercise, partially because I'm a sadist, apparently, but also because, being a re-taker, I have some prior exam results, and thus had some hard numbers for how I did on the Essays and the MBE last time. I just want to see someone from a no name school take the top score. Jurisdictions set their own minimum passing scores for the UBE. It was interesting to play around with the numbers and see how the score changes if you do better in certain areas. UBE total scores are reported on a 400-point scale. Each Essay and MPT are graded at 5 points per Essay/MPT. This version of the bar exam is taking over the country, figured there should be a spot dedicated to it. Might be basic math for some wizards out there, but I suck at it. Press J to jump to the feed. Good luck to you all. Good job. That translates to the following formula: --Combine all e and DIVIDE by the total points (30) to get a percentage we will call E, --Combine all p and DIVIDE by the total points (10) to get a percentage we will call P, AND finally, the true x-factor for many, the MBE: plug in an x, DIVIDE by the total points (200) to get a percentage we will call X, Next, you simply take the percentage figures we have for E, P, and X, multiply them by their respective weighting, to get wE, wP, and wX, E * .30 (the weighting) = the weighted MEE score, wE, P * .20 (the weighting)= the weighted MPT score, wP, X * .50 (the weighting) = the weighted MBE score, wX, Finally! So I just passed the UBE in NH (wooo!) No idea if it’s easier or harder. I remember the CALI for last July in Arizona was Harvard, and 2nd and 3rd went to U of Arizona. Move on. EXAMPLE: On my unsuccessful July UBE, I got the following: MEE TOTAL (e) = 21 DIVIDED BY 30 (the total points possible) to get the percentage figure, E, MULTIPLIED by the Weighted %, .30 = wE = .21, MPT TOTAL (p) = 4, DIVIDED BY 10 (the total points possible), to get the percentage figure, P, MULTIPLIED by the Weighted %, .20 = wP = .08, My MBE (x) was 134, DIVIDED BY 200 (the total points possible), to get the percentage figure, X, MULTIPLIED by the Weight %, .50 = wX = .335, So we have it: wE + wM + wX = .21 + .08 + .335 = .625. Where did she go to LS? Press J to jump to the feed. How the different weightings for the Essay, PT, and MBE components generally translates to an overall score. For current and former Law School Redditors. Note: Again, this post focuses directly on the UBE. SO, this serves to help you understand how your performance translates to an actual score on the exam. Perfect score. Using those as a basis, I wanted to attempt to make some preliminary judgments, comparing the cumulative scores from the July exam to my feeling of how this exam went. Especially considering the actual result won't come for a long 5+ weeks. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. Haven't gotten my results yet, but it's nice to know that they actually give you the details for each portion; I'd been wondering about that. The math and logic, however, which I will try to display, applies to other states, provided you know some basic facts, being (1) total points possible per essay, (2) total points cumulative for the whole exam, and (3) the varying weighting applied to each section of the exam. What is the highest bar exam (UBE) score you've heard of someone getting? So I just passed the UBE in NH (wooo!) Just genuinely curious as to how high all you gunners have either received or seen someone get. LAST STEP is to multiply that number by 400. Here, we tell you what each one means. but I'm on the low end of things, I think. On the UBE, there is a written portion worth half of the total grade, and the multiple choice MBE worth the other half. And try as I might I can't seem to find UBE average scores. The UBE uses a curve based on the performance of previous bar applicants to ensure that each score is not affected by the quality of the pool of applicants for a specific exam or the difficulty of the individual test.The MBE is scaled based upon performance on the experimental questions. Jurisdictions grade the MEE and MPT components. It was interesting plugging in some numbers for how I felt on various written portions (some good, some not so good) as well as some MBE numbers to see how the overall score shifted. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. This is NOT a forum for legal advice. Curious as to how your actual UBE results align with this … So, between the Colorado and Connecticut UBE calculators for the same score for Feb '18 there is a difference of 17 points :/ Continue this thread View entire discussion (9 comments) New Hampshire, 278, July 2015 Thanks, this is actually very helpful. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. I get that the score obviously doesn't matter beyond whatever is passing in your respective state. (When you don't pass, my state sends you your written materials, including individual essay/mpt scores, for you to review.) That is the score, according to the numbers you've put in. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. Also, the information isn't available anywhere else and I think it would be interesting to know. As I mentioned earlier, the purpose of this thread is to help us understand how our performance translates to exam points, which is the ultimate basis for our success or..unsuccess. there is also a thing called admission on motion where you can be admitted to particular states so long as you meet their requirements or they have a reciprocity agreement with other states! Ask questions, seek advice, post outlines, etc. This guide is simply meant to help those that are curious to learn how the bar exam is graded to form an understanding for how well you do in certain parts of the exam affects the overall grade.
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