Format, Content, & Grading of the Oklahoma Bar Exam

All data provided below are subject to change by a decision at any time by the Oklahoma Board of Bar Examiners.  When any changes are made, they will be posted on this site.

The Oklahoma Bar Exam is a two-day exam -- Tuesday and Wednesday -- with Oklahoma essay questions on Tuesday and the multiple-choice Multistate Bar Exam on Wednesday.

First Day (Tuesday):  
16 Oklahoma Essay Questions

Second Day (Wednesday) morning session: 
3 hours 
Multistate Bar Examination (MBE)
100 Multiple-Choice questions.

Second Day (Wednesday) afternoon session: 
3 hours
Multistate Bar Examination (MBE) 
100 Multiple-Choice questions.

If you take two bar exams at the same time (local in Oklahoma on Tuesday, local in the other jurisdiction on Thursday, MBE in either state on Wednesday), Oklahoma will accept the score of the MBE taken in either state.

For further details on the MBE, click here.


Subjects Tested on the Oklahoma Bar Exam:

MBE Subjects
Constitutional Law
Contracts/Sales
Criminal Law/Procedure
Evidence
Real Property
Torts

Oklahoma Essay Subjects
Administrative Law
Agency
Commercial Paper
Conflict of Laws
Consumer Law
Corporations
Creditors' Rights (including Bankruptcy)
Federal Estate & Gift Taxation
Family Law
Partnerships
Personal Property
Pleadings & Practice (Federal and Oklahoma)
Professional Responsibility
Remedies
Secured Transactions
Trusts
UCC
Wills & Estates
plus the six MBE subjects

Grading of the Oklahoma Bar Exam:

Your essay scores are averaged with your scaled MBE score. An MBE score of 135 is equivalent to passing one-half the exam. 

Oklahoma generally releases the results of the Summer exam in late September and the results of the Winter exam in mid-April.

Admission on Motion 
(i.e., without having to sit for the bar exam)

1. You must be a graduate of an ABA-accredited law school.

2. You must be admitted to the bar of another jurisdiction and must have practiced law for at least five of the prior seven years.

3. The other jurisdiction must have a similar policy by which Oklahoma attorneys can be admitted without taking that jurisdiction's bar exam.

For further information, contact:

Board of Bar Examiners
P.O. Box 53036
1901 North Lincoln Boulevard
Oklahoma City, OK 73152
Telephone: 405-524-2365

Exam Dates, Locations:

Winter 2007
Tuesday and Wednesday, 
February 27 and 28, 2007

Summer 2007
Tuesday and Wednesday, 
July 24 and 25, 2007
Oklahoma City

Filing Deadlines and Fees

Law students must file a law student registration AND a bar exam application.

Filing deadlines and fees are subject to change.  Contact the Oklahoma Bar Examiners to learn the rules in effect at the time of your application.