MPRE · National add-on

One subject. Sixty questions. A different kind of exam entirely.

The Multistate Professional Responsibility Examination is 60 multiple-choice questions — 50 scored, 10 unscored pretest — on the rules of professional conduct and judicial ethics, required for admission in nearly every U.S. jurisdiction and administered entirely separately from the bar exam itself, on NCBE's own calendar rather than any state's. Most candidates sit for it well before bar-exam prep ever starts, often during law school.

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MPRE Practice

Standalone MCQ — the only item type MPRE uses

No essays. No performance tasks.

Professional Responsibility

An attorney represents both spouses in drafting a joint estate plan after explaining the potential conflict and getting informed consent from each. The couple later divorces, and both ask the attorney for advice against the other. May the attorney advise either one?

AYes — the original consent covers any future dispute between them.

BNo — the conflict that was previously waived becomes non-consentable once their interests actually turn adverse.

CYes — joint representation of spouses is never a conflict.

DNo — joint estate planning is never permitted regardless of consent.

Not a smaller bar exam

A different kind of product surface, not a lighter version of the same one.

It's tempting to treat MPRE as a cut-down bar exam. It isn't — the scope, the item type, and where it falls in a candidate's actual timeline are all genuinely different, which is why it needs its own track rather than a filtered view of the main one.

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Subject scope

Seven-plus substantive subjects — Contracts, Torts, Evidence, Real Property, and the rest.

One subject: the law governing lawyers — professional conduct and judicial ethics.

Item types

Standalone MCQs plus, under NextGen, Integrated Question Sets and Performance Tasks.

Entirely standalone multiple-choice — 60 questions, 50 scored and 10 unscored pretest, nothing else.

Where it sits in your timeline

Prep typically runs for months right up against one jurisdiction's bar-exam date.

Often finished during law school — sometimes years before bar-exam prep even starts.

Who administers it

Each jurisdiction sets its own exam date, format, and passing score.

Run by NCBE on its own national calendar, independent of any state's bar-exam schedule.

Treated as a real track, not an afterthought bolted onto the main product

MPRE gets its own full question bank and its own timed practice exams — not a filtered slice of bar-exam content relabeled "ethics." It works standalone for a candidate tackling it on its own schedule, and it bundles cleanly alongside either main tier for a candidate who wants it alongside NextGen, Legacy, or California prep.

It's also the simplest case architecturally: MPRE is nothing but the standalone-MCQ item type the rest of this platform already treats as its base case — so building it out fully costs a dedicated content bank, not a parallel engine.

Whichever bar-exam track you're on, MPRE sits beside it.

See the full set of tracks — NextGen, Legacy UBE, California, and MPRE — on one page.

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