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If you’ve heard Generation Alpha chanting “six–seven,” which Dictionary.com recently named its 2025 Word of the Year , then congratulations: You’re now holding the perfect icebreaker for explaining bar‑exam scoring to anyone. On the written portion of the Uniform Bar Exam (the six Multistate Essay Exam essays and the two Multistate Performance Test questions), jurisdictions don’t all use the same raw scale. Although a majority of UBE jurisdictions grade your answers on six

From time to time, real-world headlines offer a natural opportunity to revisit foundational legal principles. This series draws on those...

Many bar takers say, "I need to use scratch paper to organize my thoughts." It feels familiar and comforting, especially under stress....

We live in a world where celebrities like billie eilish sometimes stylize their names in lowercase for artistic effect. But there is no...

When tackling an MPT, it’s tempting to dive into the cases first. After all, they're written in narrative form and often seem more...

Every bar exam season, I hear some version of the same line: “I just don’t have a spare 90 minutes during the week to complete a full...

For many bar exam takers, the Multistate Performance Test feels like a race against time. You’re dropped into a fictional legal task with...

If you’re prepping for the bar exam, you’ve likely heard that the Multistate Performance Test is “just like real lawyering.” You’re...

Let’s be clear: the people grading your bar exam essays are not looking to be entertained. They’re not flipping pages hoping for a...

Here’s a common mistake I see on the MPT: students open their objective memo by jumping straight into the first issue—without any...