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How might the changes that are coming with the NextGen bar exam help shape changes in legal education? In the latest issue of the Bar Examiner, four law school faculty members share their reflections on the relationship between the NextGen exam, their teaching, and their disciplines more broadly. Also in this issue, NCBE’s Marilyn Wellington provides a detailed look at the recent release of the NextGen content scope and initial sample questions. NCBE has released information about the planned duration and structure of the NextGen bar exam, as well as the date by which the current bar exam will ..read more

The National Conference of Bar Examiners (NCBE) announced today the planned duration and structure of the NextGen bar exam and the date by which the current bar exam will officially sunset. The NextGen exam is currently under development and will launch in July 2026. The NextGen bar exam will be divided into three sessions of three hours each, with each session containing two integrated question sets, one performance task, and approximately 40 multiple-choice questions. These three-hour sessions will be administered over one and a half days, with six hours of testing time on day one and three ..read more

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NCBE has published the first sample questions for the NextGen bar exam. The questions provide examples of two new question types that will be featured on the NextGen exam: an “integrated question set” and a type of multiple-choice question not currently used on the bar exam. These new question types will be among those used to test the eight areas of legal knowledge and seven categories of practical skills and abilities required of all newly licensed attorneys under the new exam. The released sample questions have been pilot tested by over 2,500 law students, bar examinees, and newly licensed ..read more

NCBE has published the content scope for the NextGen bar exam, outlining the breadth of material to be covered on the new exam in eight areas of legal knowledge and seven categories of practical skills and abilities. This marks the latest milestone in the development of the new bar exam, which will launch in July 2026.  The content scope reflects the work of a 21-member content scope committee made up of legal educators, law school deans, practicing attorneys, and bar examiners. The committee’s recommendations are based on a three-year study of the bar exam, which included a nationwide pr ..read more

The Bar Examiner’s latest quarterly update on the NextGen bar exam takes an in-depth look at the interconnected stages of research testing—pilot, field, and prototype—that will be performed over the next few years as part of the NextGen exam development process. Read the full column on the Bar Examiner website. The first stage of this research, pilot testing, began in 2022 and will continue into 2023; field testing will begin following completion of the pilot testing phase. Twenty-two law schools are participating in the initial rounds of pilot testing, in which law students and recent graduat ..read more

NCBE has published an updated implementation timeline for the NextGen bar exam. The timeline provides a high-level overview of the exam development process that is currently under way, from pilot testing to the first exam administration. The earliest stages of the implementation process, in 2021 and 2022, were focused on publishing and gathering feedback on the preliminary Content Scope Outlines and developing and evaluating prototypes of new item types and item sets. The post NCBE Publishes Updated Implementation Timeline appeared first on NextGen Bar Exam ..read more