MPRE Review & Practice
Learn every tested ethics category, and apply it under time.
The MPRE review and practice course covers every tested ethics category. A 25-lesson professional-responsibility course with precise rule maps, boundary training, original applications, 125 learning checks, a weighted study plan, and the current requirement for every jurisdiction. The largest official weighting categories are regulation of the legal profession, the client-lawyer relationship, client confidentiality. The official exam is 60 questions in two hours, with 50 scored and 10 unscored pretest items you cannot identify, so pacing and endurance matter as much as knowing the rule. This course teaches original paraphrases of the tested rules, not official questions: verify format and download the official outline directly from NCBE before test day. Two jurisdictions currently report no MPRE requirement at all; every other jurisdiction sets its own minimum passing score, so confirm the number for your own state below rather than assuming a national figure.
60questions presented
50questions scored
10unscored pretest
2htesting time
25complete lessons
Interactive course
Teach, apply, check, repair, revisit.
Each lesson separates the default duty from exceptions, consent, knowledge, and procedural safeguards. Completion records exposure; the saved score shows the strongest learning-check result for that lesson.
LESSON 1 OF 25 · REGULATION
6–12%Admission, discipline, and choice of law
Professional regulation follows the lawyer from the admission application through multijurisdictional practice and discipline.
Build the decision rule, then test its limits.
- 1
An applicant and a lawyer responding to a bar-admission or disciplinary authority may not knowingly make a material false statement or fail to correct a known misunderstanding, subject to the duty of confidentiality.
- 2
A lawyer is subject to the disciplinary authority of every jurisdiction in which admitted and may also be disciplined where conduct occurs or has its predominant effect.
- 3
Disciplinary choice of law generally tracks the tribunal’s rules for conduct connected with a matter before that tribunal; otherwise it tracks the place of conduct or predominant effect, with a reasonable-belief safe harbor.
- 4
Professional discipline and civil malpractice are different systems: the same conduct may trigger one, both, or neither.
Common wrong-answer moves
Trap 1Treating an old application omission as harmless after the applicant learns it created a misunderstanding.
Trap 2Assuming only the lawyer’s home jurisdiction can discipline cross-border conduct.
Trap 3Using the ethics rules of the jurisdiction with the most favorable result without applying choice of law.
Official weighting map
Allocate practice by the tested blueprint.
Conflicts, the client-lawyer relationship, and advocacy are the largest categories. Smaller categories still receive direct coverage and should not disappear from mixed sets.
| Subject | Weight |
|---|---|
| Regulation of the legal profession | 6–12% |
| The client-lawyer relationship | 10–16% |
| Client confidentiality | 6–12% |
| Conflicts of interest | 12–18% |
| Competence, malpractice, and civil liability | 6–12% |
| Litigation and other advocacy | 10–16% |
| Transactions and communications with nonclients | 2–8% |
| Different roles of the lawyer | 4–10% |
| Safekeeping funds and other property | 2–8% |
| Communications about legal services | 4–10% |
| Lawyers’ duties to the public and legal system | 2–4% |
| Judicial conduct | 2–8% |
The client-lawyer relationship
10–16%Client confidentiality
6–12%Conflicts of interest
12–18%Competence, malpractice, and civil liability
6–12%Litigation and other advocacy
10–16%Transactions and communications with nonclients
2–8%Different roles of the lawyer
4–10%Safekeeping funds and other property
2–8%Communications about legal services
4–10%Lawyers’ duties to the public and legal system
2–4%Judicial conduct
2–8%Four-week default plan
Retrieval first. Questions second. Simulation last.
Compress or expand the plan to your available time. Preserve the order: diagnose, learn, retrieve, apply, mix, simulate, and repair.
Week 1 · Duties and relationships
Baseline selected-response set; regulation; formation; scope; fees; termination; confidentiality. Finish each lesson with closed-book recall.
Week 2 · Conflicts and competence
Current, former, prospective, imputed, and specific conflicts; competence; diligence; malpractice. Build one conflict flowchart from memory daily.
Week 3 · Advocacy and third persons
Candor, evidence, discovery, prosecutors, represented persons, unrepresented persons, roles, and client property. Add two mixed timed blocks.
Week 4 · Public-facing duties and exam execution
Advertising, solicitation, public duties, judicial conduct, full mixed review, two timed simulations, error-log repair, and test-day logistics.
How to review a missed question
- Name the actor and role.
- State the default duty.
- Identify the word that activates an exception: knowledge, materiality, adversity, substantial harm, informed consent, or tribunal involvement.
- Explain why every rejected answer is too broad, too narrow, missing a safeguard, or addressing the wrong duty.
- Write the repaired rule in the error log and retrieve it after one, three, and seven days.
What to do on test day
- Read the call before the final fact.
- Classify each option as required, permitted, or prohibited.
- Do not add facts or state-law variations absent from the problem.
- Prefer the complete answer containing all required conditions.
- Flag, move, and return; budget roughly two minutes per item.
56-jurisdiction MPRE directory
Know the score your admitting authority requires.
Minimum scores are jurisdiction-specific. Timing, score age, transfer, reporting, and exceptions may matter just as much as the number.
ALAlabama75AKAlaska80AZArizona85ARArkansas85CACalifornia86COColorado85CTConnecticut80DEDelaware85DCDistrict of Columbia75FLFlorida80GAGeorgia75GUGuam80HIHawaii85IDIdaho85ILIllinois80INIndiana80IAIowa80KSKansas80KYKentucky80LALouisiana80MEMaine80MDMaryland85MAMassachusetts85MIMichigan85MNMinnesota85MSMississippi75MOMissouri80MTMontana80NENebraska85NVNevada85NHNew Hampshire79NJNew Jersey75NMNew Mexico80NYNew York85NCNorth Carolina80NDNorth Dakota85MPNorthern Mariana Islands80OHOhio85OKOklahoma80OROregon85PWPalau75PAPennsylvania75PRPuerto RicoNoneRIRhode Island80SCSouth Carolina77SDSouth Dakota85TNTennessee82TXTexas85UTUtah86VTVermont80VIVirgin Islands75VAVirginia85WAWashington85WVWest Virginia80WIWisconsinNoneWYWyoming85
Primary-source ledger
Exam format and subject weights: NCBE, Preparing for the MPRE ↗
Governing study texts: ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct ↗ and ABA Model Code of Judicial Conduct ↗
Jurisdiction requirements: NCBE Comprehensive Guide ↗
Important boundary: The MPRE tests generally accepted professional-conduct standards. Admission and discipline in practice are governed by the rules adopted in the relevant jurisdiction.