If you’re prepping for the bar exam, you’ve certainly heard (and likely seen) how hard it is—but how much of that is true? And while we’re at it, how many questions can you expect? If you’re feeling ...

6:43 a.m. March 4, 2025: An earlier version of this story said test taker Ray Hayden could not afford to go to California to take the bar exam. In fact, he considered the journey a waste of money.

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Okay, so I’m not going to pretend that the bar exam is easy peasy. You know it’s tough. But did you know that since February 2025, the average Multistate Bar Exam (MBE) score has been lower than it ...

California’s first bar exam to be prepared by a private contractor accomplished one of its main goals in February, lowering financial costs for the deficit-plagued state bar. And its passage rate of ...

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>"Listen and Learn" series (https://barexamtoolbox.com/bar-exam-toolbox-podcast-archive-by-topic/bar-exam-toolbox-podcast-explaining-individual-mee-and-california-bar ...

The average American lawyer makes just over $100,000 per year. To reach that point, however, they had to make a significant investment in themselves: both to complete law school and to pass the bar ...