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The West Virginia  Board of Bar Examiners is responsible for the bar exam. There is no local content on this bar examination.

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

• the six-hour multiple-choice Multistate Bar Examination (MBE), weighted 50%;
• two 90-minute Multistate Performance Test (MPT) problems, weighted 25%;
• six 30-minute Multistate Essay Examination (MEE) questions, weighted 25%.

Successful applicants must receive a combined scaled score of 270. Within 25 months of passing 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 West Virginia 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
• real property, including real estate finance
• torts
• trusts and estates (wills)
• UCC Articles 1 (general provisions), 2 (sales), 3 (negotiable instruments), and 9 (secured transactions).

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