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MBE Score Transfers are sent directly to jurisdictions, and the scores are not provided to examinees. (You must request an MBE Score Release to obtain your MBE score; however, this service is not available for all jurisdictions.)

MBE Score Transfers are sent directly to jurisdictions, and the scores are not provided to examinees. (You must request an MBE Score Release to obtain your MBE score; however, this service is not available for all jurisdictions.)

You want to aim for a scaled score of at least 140-145 (which is the average score). Ideally, you should want a 150+ scaled score to have confidence to pass the exam. The national average MBE scaled score for the last two exams was: 134.0 6 in Feb. 2019; and 139.5 7 in July 2018.

MBE Conversion Chart Guide: RAW SCORE: This means the number correct (out of 190 scored questions) to pass. (So if you are trying to figure out the percentage, divide the raw score by 190. We do the math for you below.)

LIMITATIONS ON USE: (1) An MBE score transferred to New York may only be used once. ... You must have taken a complete examination in the other jurisdiction contemporaneously and passed the examination at one sitting to transfer the score to New York.

Those people must not have studied the MBE every year since its inception in 1972. If you look at the 2017 MBE National Scaled Score Distribution from the National Conference of Bar Examiners, you will see that MBE results fall in a pattern that looks like a bell curve. This happens Every. Single.

You want to aim for a scaled score of at least 140-145 (which is the average score). Ideally, you should want a 150+ scaled score to have confidence to pass the exam. The national average MBE scaled score for the last two exams was: 134.0 6 in Feb. 2019; and 139.5 7 in July 2018.

The national average MBE score for July 2018 was 139.5, a decrease of about 2.2 points from the July 2017 average.

The performance information provided for the MBE is a scaled score which can range from about 40 (low) to 200 (high). MBE scaled scores are calculated by NCBE based on a statistical process known as equating that is commonly used on standardized examinations.

Average scores The average raw score from the summer exam historically has been about 128, or about 67% correct (only 175 of the 200 questions are scored with the remaining 25 questions being evaluated for future use), while the average scaled score in 2007 was about 140.

Note that the vast majority of states do not have a requisite MBE score. So long as you receive an overall passing score on the bar exam, you will pass! For example, New York requires a 266 to pass the exam. Thus, if you received a score of 133 on the MBE and a score of 133 on the written portion, you would pass.

The percentage needed for a passing MBE score in California is 67.5%. This means an MBE score of approximately 119 raw (119/175) is passing. A raw score of 119 should equal a scaled score of 144. Keep in mind, California uses a thousand-point scale.

These are the approximate scores you want to aim for in order to have a passing MBE score: If you are aiming for a MBE converted score of 131-135 (which is a passing score in most jurisdictions that require scores of 262-270 to pass), you should aim for 58%-62%. We suggest aiming for at least 60% to be safe.

We suggest aiming for at least 60% to be safe. If you are aiming for an MBE score of 136-140 (which is a passing MBE score in jurisdictions that require a 272-280 to pass) you should aim for 62%-65%. We suggest aiming for at least 65% to be safe.

An applicant's total score is the scale MBE score (on the 2000-point scale) multiplied by .50 plus the converted score on the written section multiplied by .50. Scaling ensures the two portions of the examination carry the relative weights assigned to them: written (50 percent) and MBE (50 percent).