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The Hawai'i bar exam, a two-day exam, includes almost no local content. It consists of  

  • the six-hour multiple-choice Multistate Bar Examination (MBE), weighted 50%; 
  • two 90-minute Multistate Performance Test (MPT) problems, weighted 10%;
  • fifteen multiple-choice questions on the Hawai'i Rules of Professional Conduct, weighted 5%; and
  • seven 30-minute Multistate Essay Examination (MEE) questions, weighted 35%. 

Successful applicants must earn a combined scaled score of 134. Within 2 years before or 1 year after the bar exam, applicants also must pass the Multistate Professional Responsibility Examination (MPRE) with a scaled score of 85.

The following subjects may be tested on the Hawai'i bar exam:

  • business associations (agency, partnership, corporations, LLCs) 
  • civil procedure
  • conflict of laws
  • constitutional law 
  • contracts, including UCC Article 2 sales
  • criminal law and procedure
  • evidence
  • family law 
  • legal ethics (Hawai'i Rules of Professional Responsibility)
  • real property, including real estate finance
  • torts
  • trusts and estates (wills, trusts, decedents' estates, future interests)
  • UCC Articles 1 (general provisions), 2 (sales), 3 (negotiable instruments/commercial paper), 9 (secured transactions)

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