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A California resident sued a Nevada corporation in California state court for breach of contract seeking $100,000. The defendant removed to federal court based on diversity jurisdiction. The corporation's principal place of business is in California. The plaintiff moves to remand. The court should:
A California resident sued a Nevada corporation and its CEO (a California resident) in state court for $80,000 in contract damages. The corporation removed based on diversity, arguing the CEO was fraudulently joined. The corporation's principal place of business is in California. The court should:
A New York plaintiff filed a federal diversity action against a Delaware corporation with its principal place of business in New York, seeking $90,000. The defendant moves to dismiss for lack of subject matter jurisdiction. The court should:
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Continue practicing for freeMultistate Bar Examination is a CBT exam of 200 questions over 6h.
8 practice areas in the Bar Exam (MBE) question bank, each with its own questions and analytics.
Every question in the bank is written in one of these formats.
The Multistate Bar Examination (MBE) is the 200-question multiple-choice component of the bar exam, developed by the National Conference of Bar Examiners (NCBE) and administered by participating jurisdictions on the last Wednesday of February and July. In Uniform Bar Examination (UBE) jurisdictions it is weighted 50% of the total score, which makes it the largest determinant of whether you pass. It is also the only part of the bar exam that is scored centrally by NCBE against a national scale, so a strong MBE score transfers cleanly if you ever seek admission by score transfer.
The MBE tests seven subjects, with 25 scored questions in each: Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Contracts, Criminal Law and Procedure, Evidence, Real Property, and Torts. The questions are fact-pattern heavy. Each is a short scenario followed by a call of the question and four answer choices, where the wrong choices are usually right-sounding statements of law that do not resolve the issue actually asked. The practice bank on this page mirrors that structure and is organized by the same seven subjects. It also includes Business Associations questions for candidates in UBE jurisdictions who face that subject on the Multistate Essay Examination.
Source: NCBE: MBE preparation and subject matter outline
| Subject | Scored questions |
|---|---|
| Civil Procedure | 25 |
| Constitutional Law | 25 |
| Contracts | 25 |
| Criminal Law and Procedure | 25 |
| Evidence | 25 |
| Real Property | 25 |
| Torts | 25 |
| Business Associations | Not on the MBE (tested on the MEE) |
The MBE has 200 questions, 175 scored and 25 unscored pretest questions that are indistinguishable from the scored ones. Business Associations (agency, partnerships, corporations, LLCs) is a Multistate Essay Examination subject and never appears on the MBE. It is included in the PassExams bank so UBE candidates can drill it in the same multiple-choice format. Within each subject NCBE publishes a detailed subject matter outline with approximate coverage of sub-topics. Contracts questions, for example, are drawn from both common law and UCC Article 2.
NCBE converts your raw score (the number of the 175 scored questions answered correctly) to a scaled score through a statistical equating process that adjusts for differences in difficulty between exam forms. The scaled MBE score is the number reported to you and to your jurisdiction. There is no penalty for wrong answers, so every question should be answered. Scores are released by the jurisdiction instead of NCBE directly, on a timetable each jurisdiction sets.
In UBE jurisdictions the total score is made up of the MBE (50%), the Multistate Essay Examination (30%), and the Multistate Performance Test (20%), scaled to a 400-point total. Each UBE jurisdiction sets its own passing score. Most fall in the 260–270 range, and some jurisdictions require a higher score for admission than the one they will accept on transfer. Non-UBE jurisdictions combine the MBE with their own written components using their own weighting. Always confirm the current passing score and component weights with the jurisdiction where you are seeking admission.
The MBE rewards volume of timed, reviewed questions more than any other bar component. The plan below assumes 25 to 30 hours a week, in line with a full-time bar preparation period, and puts the seven subjects in an order that front-loads the ones candidates most often under-prepare.
MBE wrong answers are correct statements of law doing the wrong job. Working back from the right answer, the writer supplies the rule that governs a neighbouring issue, the rule with one element quietly missing, the exception that would apply if a single fact in the pattern were different, and the choice that is true on its own terms and still does not resolve the call of the question. Your own state's distinctive rule shows up too, in questions where the exam wants the majority view or the UCC. Every PassExams question comes with an explanation of the option you picked, on every plan, so a miss tells you which of those four the choice actually was and what in the call should have ruled it out.
On Pro each wrong option also carries a label (reading trick, rule swap, wrong exception, partial answer, right rule in the wrong situation), and after a few hundred questions those labels show the habit behind your score. Some candidates lose Evidence points to the hearsay exclusions and Real Property points to the recording acts. Others answer accurately and keep misreading the call under time pressure. The variant engine responds with a fresh fact pattern that turns on a different exception, so the retry tests whether the rule moved into your reasoning. Hints take out the most tempting choice first and send you back to the call. Mixed sets and honest review are what move an MBE score, and the shortcut is mastering the mistakes you actually make.
Volume of timed, reviewed questions beats re-reading outlines. Most bar programs work through 1,500 to 2,500 questions across a full study period. Read the call of the question first so you answer the issue asked instead of picking a true statement about a different one. Start mixing all seven subjects into your sets by the middle of your plan and hold the pace at 100 questions per 3-hour session. Record what actually went wrong on each miss, because process errors and gaps in the law need different fixes.
200 multiple-choice questions, of which 175 are scored and 25 are unscored pretest questions being evaluated for future exams. You cannot tell which are which, so treat every question as scored.
Six hours of testing, split into a 3-hour morning session of 100 questions and a 3-hour afternoon session of 100 questions on the same day, with a break between them.
Seven subjects, each with 25 scored questions: Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Contracts, Criminal Law and Procedure, Evidence, Real Property, and Torts. Business Associations is tested on the Multistate Essay Examination instead of the MBE.
There is no standalone MBE pass mark. Your scaled MBE score is combined with the written components, and each jurisdiction sets its own total passing score. In UBE jurisdictions most fall in the 260–270 range out of 400, and the MBE contributes 50% of that total. Check the exact figure with your jurisdiction.
On the last Wednesday of February and the last Wednesday of July each year, in every jurisdiction that uses it. The essay and performance-test components are usually given the day before.
No. Your raw score is simply the number of scored questions answered correctly, so never leave a question blank. If you are running out of time, fill in an answer for every remaining question before the session ends.
Most bar preparation programs assign somewhere between 1,500 and 2,500 timed questions across a full study period, with every question reviewed. The review is where the score gains come from. The count alone is not the goal.
NCBE's NextGen Bar Exam launches in July 2026 in adopting jurisdictions and will phase in elsewhere on dates each jurisdiction announces. Until your jurisdiction transitions, the current MBE remains in use. Confirm which exam applies to your sitting before you begin studying.
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