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The Virginia  Board of Bar Examiners is responsible for the bar exam. The Examiners are reasonably open and transparent. They release their essay questions here, and the links are reproduced below. They do not release their short answer questions.

The Virginia bar exam, a two-day exam, consists of

  • the six-hour multiple-choice Multistate Bar Examination (MBE), weighted 40%;
  • five Virginia essays given over three hours; and
  • four Virginia essays plus twenty short-answer questions given over three hours. 

Successful applicants must receive a combined scaled score of 140. Within 2 calendar years before or 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 Virginia bar exam:

  • agency (business associations)
  • conflict of laws
  • constitutional law
  • contracts, including UCC Article 2 sales 
  • corporations (business associations)
  • creditors' rights
  • criminal law and procedure
  • domestic relations (family law)
  • equity (remedies)
  • evidence
  • federal practice and procedure (civil procedure)
  • local government law
  • partnerships (business associations)
  • personal property
  • professional responsibility
  • real property, including real estate finance
  • sales (UCC Article 2)
  • suretyship
  • taxation
  • torts
  • trusts (wills)
  • Uniform Commercial Code, including Articles 1 (general provisions), 2 (sales), 3 (negotiable instruments), 9 (secured transactions)
  • Virginia pleading, practice, and procedure, including appellate practice (civil procedure)
  • wills and estate administration.

Here are links to the past Virginia questions:

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