Multistate Bar Examination (MBE)

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See: Bar Examination in The United States, Pro Bono, Civil Law (Legal System), Law of The United States.

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(Wikipedia, 2023) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bar_examination_in_the_United_States#Multistate_Bar_Examination Retrieved:2023-10-17.
- The MBE is a standardized test consisting of 200 multiple-choice questions covering seven key areas of law: constitutional law, contracts, criminal law and procedure, federal rules of civil procedure, federal rules of evidence, real property, and torts. The MBE formerly addressed only six topics, with civil procedure added by the NCBE in 2009 and administered starting in 2015. Examinees have three hours to answer 100 questions in a morning session and the same for an afternoon session. The MBE is administered in all U.S. states and territories, except Louisiana and Puerto Rico, which follow civil law systems very different from the legal systems in other states.^[1] The MBE is administered in most jurisdictions on the last Wednesday in February and July. Of the 200 questions, 175 are scored and 25 are questions under evaluation for future use.^[2] The NCBE grades the MBE using a scaled score ranging from 40 to 200. Taking the MBE in one jurisdiction may allow an applicant to use his or her MBE score to waive into another jurisdiction or to use the MBE score with another state's bar examination. NCBE provides free example MBE questions for civil procedure with explanatory answers along with further free example questions, to which answer explanations were provided pro bono.

(Katz et al., 2023) ⇒ Daniel Martin Katz, Michael James Bommarito, Shang Gao, and Pablo Arredondo. (2023). “GPT-4 Passes the Bar Exam.” In: Available at SSRN 4389233. doi:10.2139/ssrn.4389233
- QUOTE: ... In this paper, we experimentally evaluate the zero-shot performance of a preliminary version of GPT-4 against prior generations of GPT on the entire Uniform Bar Examination (UBE), including not only the multiple-choice Multistate Bar Examination (MBE), but also the open-ended Multistate Essay Exam (MEE) and Multistate Performance Test (MPT) components. On the MBE, GPT-4 significantly outperforms both human test-takers and prior models, demonstrating a 26% increase over ChatGPT and beating humans in five of seven subject areas. ...