- the six-hour Multistate Bar Examination (MBE),
- six 30-minute Multistate Essay Examination (MEE) questions, and
- six 30-minute Kentucky Essay questions.
- administrative law and procedure
- business entities
- civil procedure
- conflict of laws
- constitutional law
- contracts, including UCC Article 2 sales
- criminal law and procedure
- domestic relations (family law)
- estates (wills, trusts, and estates)
- evidence
- property, personal and real, including real estate finance
- taxation (federal)
- torts
- UCC Articles 1 (general provisions), 2 (sales), 3 (negotiable instruments), 9 (secured transactions)
The Kentucky Office of Bar Admissions is responsible for the Kentucky bar exam. Although there is not a lot of local content on this bar exam, the Kentucky bar examiners do publish past essay questions on-line, direct links to which are reproduced below.
The Kentucky Bar exam, a two-day exam, consists of
Successful applicants must pass both the essay and the Multistate portions of the exam, with a scaled score of 132 on the MBE and 75% on the essay portion. Before taking the bar exam, applicants also must pass the Multistate Professional Responsibility Examination (MPRE) with a scaled score of 75.
The following subjects may be tested on the Kentucky bar exam:
Here are links to the past essay questions available from the Kentucky website:
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