All applicants must demonstrate knowledge of the professional responsibility and ethical obligations of the legal profession, which is evidenced by successfully achieving a minimum scaled score of 75 on the Multistate Professional Responsibility Examination (MPRE).  Applicants may take the MPRE at any point during law school or their legal career.  Applicants also have up to three months after bar examination results are released to successfully pass the MPRE and have the official results transferred to the board office to ensure that your application can be processed prior to the six-month expiration of your Certificate recommending admission.  You may be required to submit a supplemental application (see Pa.B.A.R. 231), which impose added requirements on applicants who, for any reason, including the failure to pass the MPRE, have not filed a motion for admission to the bar within six months from the date when their successful bar examination results were released.  The supplemental application process requires a new character and fitness review and determination by the Executive Director and can take three months to complete.  If an applicant is not successful on the MPRE in sufficient time to file a motion for admission to the bar within three years of the date their successful bar examination results were released, they will have to reapply for permission to sit for the bar examination, successfully retake the bar examination, and meet all of the requirements at that time.  Applicants are encouraged to take the MPRE while in law school, shortly after they have taken a course on professional responsibility and ethics.  In order to obtain an MPRE application, please contact your law school, or the National Conference of Bar Examiners at:

MPRE Application Department,

P.O. Box 4001,

Iowa City, Iowa 52243-4001,

telephone no. (319) 341-2500. 

MPRE on line registration is available at www.ncbex.org.