I’ve been making bar exam score calculators for the past 15 years. Currently, there are calculators for the following states: AL, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DC, IL, MA, MD, NC, NY, OH, PA, TN, TX, WA. To make a calculator, examinees send me their scores and then I figure out the written and MBE scales once I have a large enough number of scores to cover the majority of permutations. For virtually all examinees who failed that exam and plug in their scores, the calculator will be exact. For example, if you failed J23 in NY and plug in your J23 scores into the “Enter Your Scores” column, it will calculate your exact written and total score. Please note that extreme scores will disrupt the accuracy (e.g., if you enter a hypothetical maximum score for each MEE/MPT score, the total will be inaccurate). Examinees who are sitting for an upcoming February exam should play around with past February calculators for your state to predict your performance based on previous February scales while examinees taking an upcoming July exam should use a past July calculator to test scoring scenarios. Once you select a state/administration, the “exactly passing MEE/MPT Score” will be reported. This is the score needed for each MEE/MPT to have an exactly passing written score for that state/administration. For example, it’s been stated that 4 is the passing MEE/MPT score in Texas, but based on my Texas calculators, a passing written occurs with a score of 3.2 in July versus 3.6 in February. For New York scenarios, an exactly passing MEE/MPT score is usually around 48 in July versus 52 in February.

These calculations are accurate to within 1/10 of a point on the written (assuming the scores entered are not extreme). Simply select the appropriate state/administration and then enter your essay, MPT and MBE scores in the Exam Score column to calculate a Scaled Written and Total Scaled Score for the exam you choose. I also have a non-UBE California Score Calculator. For example, if you failed the J23 TX exam, you should choose “TX-J23” from the State-Exam choicelist and then plug in the J23 scaled scores you received. The calculated Written and Total Score should be exact (although the Written Score may be off by 1/10 of a point). NOTE: Some state score reports list MEE scores before MPT scores while other states list MPT scores first. Thus, if your state lists MPT scores first, don’t make the mistake of entering your MPT scores in the MEE section. 

 Some of the benefits of this calculator is you can see what is an exactly passing scaled MEE/MPT score for that administration and you can also see how many UBE points you received for a particular score. Thus, if there is a calculator for your state/administration, it will tell you how many MBE/MEE and MPT points you were away from passing. Use this information to learn which component of the exam hurt you the most. It will also tell you your estimated raw MBE score (based on 175 graded questions) and your % correct based on the MBE scale (this is just an estimate which will improve as I collect more MBE subscores for that administration). To account for the potential unreliability of this estimate, I also report your raw MBE score and your % correct based on the 2013 MBE scale (which is the last MBE scale to be released so this is not an estimate). Use this information to determine whether your practice scores can be used to reliably predict your MBE score. If you are entering your exam scores into the calculator, please do me a favor and press the SUBMIT button to submit these scores to me. This helps me determine the scales and make/improve the calculators. If you would also like to receive additional statistics/information based on your scoring, please include your email. If you enter all the information (including the MBE subscores), I will send you a free 14-16 page confidential analysis of your scoring.