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The Oregon State Bar is responsible for the Oregon Bar Exam. Oregon's Examiners do not release essay questions or answers, although they are available for sale.

The Oregon Bar exam, a two-day exam, consists of

• the six-hour multiple-choice Multistate Bar Examination (MBE), weighted 50%;
• one 90-minute Multistate Performance Test (MPT) problem, weighted 12.5%;
• nine 35-minute Oregon essay questions, weighted 37.5%.

The successful applicant will receive a combined scaled score of 65.00. Applicants also must pass the Multistate Professional Responsibility Examination (MPRE) with a scaled score of 85 within two years of the bar examination.

The maximum length of an Oregon essay answer is 3 pages or 4,000 characters. Copies of prior exam questions and their answers are available for $25 per exam from the Oregon State Bar.

The following subjects may be tested on the Oregon bar exam:

• business organizations, including
  • corporations
  • partnerships
• civil litigation, including
  • civil procedure  (federal and Oregon)
  • evidence  (federal and Oregon)
• commercial transactions, including
  • agency
  • contracts, including UCC Article 2 sales 
  • UCC Articles 1 (general provisions), 2 (sales), 9 (secured transactions)
• legal ethics (Oregon Rules of Professional Conduct)
• property, including
  • decedents' estates (wills)
  • real property, including real estate finance
  • trusts (wills)
• public law, including
  • administrative law and procedure (federal and Oregon)
  • constitutional law
  • criminal law and procedure
  • federal income taxation
•  torts.

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