Score and readiness planner
Model legacy UBE component tradeoffs or balance NextGen practice using the published approximate weights. The tool explains what can and cannot be inferred. For the legacy UBE, enter your practice scores by component. You'll see exactly how the published weighting combines them into a total, instead of guessing how much a weak MEE score gets offset by a strong MBE. For NextGen, the tool works the other direction. It shows how practice effort should balance across stand-alone questions, integrated sets, and performance tasks given their relative weight in the official scoring. This produces an illustrative estimate from the inputs you give it, not an official or predictive score: treat it as a planning tool for where to put your next study hours, not a forecast of your result.
The calculator applies the standard legacy UBE weights: MBE 50%, MEE 30%, and MPT 20%. Written-component values here are planning estimates, not official converted scores.
Build margin above the jurisdiction standard, evaluate completion and timing separately, and verify the official passing score for the exact exam administration.
What this tool is and is not
A planning tool, not a crystal ball.
No public formula converts raw legacy-UBE performance or NextGen practice accuracy into an official scaled score: NCBE controls that conversion and does not publish it. This planner exists to answer a narrower, useful question: given the standard component weights, which score is moving your total the least, and how many additional points does real improvement there actually buy you?
Applies the published 50% MBE / 30% MEE / 20% MPT allocation to planning estimates you enter, so you can see which component is quietly capping the total.
NextGen modeBalances practice against the approximate testing-time split NCBE has published: about 40% stand-alone multiple choice, just over a quarter integrated sets, about a third performance tasks.
Every input here is a planning estimate you supply, not a converted official score: use the result to decide where to focus, not as a number to report anywhere.
Build margin, don’t chase the minimumJurisdiction passing standards can change, and a score exactly at the published minimum leaves no room for a harder-than-average administration.
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01 · From NCBE's own pages
Minimum passing legacy UBE scores by jurisdiction, from NCBE's own table
NCBE's minimum-scores page groups the UBE jurisdictions by the lowest passing score each one sets on the legacy exam. At 260 are Alabama, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma and Utah. Indiana is alone at 264. At 266 are Connecticut, the District of Columbia, Idaho, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Montana, New Jersey, New York, South Carolina, Washington and the Virgin Islands. Michigan is alone at 268.
At 270 are Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Maine, Massachusetts, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, West Virginia and Wyoming. The spread is ten points. A 268 clears Michigan's line. It is two points short in the 270 states.
NCBE adds that Iowa's score is 260 for July 2026 and later exams and was 266 before then. It also warns that rules change. Treat the table as a starting point. Idaho, for one, dropped from 270 to 266 by court order in 2026, and Washington's own page gives 260 for a transfer, so read your bar's own page first. Then set the target in the planner.
02 · From NCBE's own pages
NextGen minimum passing scores announced so far
NCBE's NextGen page says each jurisdiction sets its own minimum NextGen UBE score, and that a jurisdiction's passing score can differ from the score it accepts for a transfer. The list it published is 610 for Iowa, Missouri, New Mexico, North Dakota and Washington, 612 for Guam and Palau, 614 for Indiana, 615 for Oregon's July 2026 exam only and for the Northern Mariana Islands, and 616 for Connecticut, the District of Columbia, Idaho, Kentucky, Maryland and the Virgin Islands.
Illinois, Maine, Massachusetts, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Vermont are at 620, and Oregon's score after July 2026 is also 620. NCBE says more announcements are coming, so a jurisdiction missing from this list has not yet published a number. That is not a low score. NextGen totals are on a 500 to 750 scale, not the legacy 400-point scale, so a legacy target like 270 does not carry over directly.
03 · From NCBE's own pages
Where a scaled MBE score sat nationally in 2025
NCBE's 2025 MBE statistics give the share of examinees in each five-point band of scaled scores. Reading them cumulatively, 49.3% of February 2025 examinees scored 130.4 or below, against 25.7% in July. Through 140.4, the figures were 74.1% in February and 43.5% in July, and through 150.4 they were 89.2% and 64.7%.
So a scaled 140 sits near the median in July, where the median was 143.3 and the mean 142.4, but well above the middle in February, where the median was 130.8. Only 4.2% of July examinees and 0.5% of February examinees scored above 170.4. Compare against your own sitting. The February pool is a different population.
04 · From NCBE's own pages
How NCBE combines the legacy UBE components
NCBE's UBE page says NCBE scores the MBE, and jurisdictions grade the MEE and MPT. The MEE and MPT scores are scaled to the MBE, and NCBE calculates the UBE total. The MBE is weighted 50 percent, the MEE 30 percent and the MPT 20 percent. UBE total scores are reported on a 400-point scale.
That is why this planner's output is only an estimate. NCBE's scaling step turns each jurisdiction's written scores into MBE-equivalent numbers before the weights apply.
05 · From NCBE's own pages
How NCBE describes the NextGen exam mix
NCBE's NextGen page says the exam has three sections of three hours each, given over one and a half days. About 40 percent of exam time goes to standalone multiple-choice questions and just over a quarter to integrated question sets. About a third goes to performance tasks.
NCBE describes those figures as shares of exam time. Use them to balance practice, and check NCBE for how the components are scored.
Questions about this tool
How are the legacy UBE components weighted?+
The MBE counts 50 percent, the MEE 30 percent and the MPT 20 percent, according to NCBE's UBE page.
What scale is the UBE reported on?+
A 400-point scale for the total score, according to NCBE.
Who grades the MEE and MPT?+
Jurisdictions grade them. NCBE scores the MBE, then scales the MEE and MPT scores to the MBE and calculates the UBE total.
Can I calculate my exact UBE score from raw practice results?+
No. NCBE scales the written components to the MBE, so a raw estimate is only a planning number and not an official conversion.
Where do I find my jurisdiction's minimum UBE score?+
NCBE's UBE page points to a Minimum Scores page listing the minimum passing UBE score by jurisdiction, since each jurisdiction sets its own.
How long is the NextGen UBE?+
Three sections of three hours each, administered over one and a half days, on the Tuesday before and the last Wednesday of February and July, per NCBE.
What share of NextGen exam time is multiple choice?+
Approximately 40 percent goes to standalone multiple-choice questions, according to NCBE's preparation page.
What share of NextGen exam time is performance tasks?+
Approximately a third of exam time, according to NCBE, with just over a quarter for integrated question sets and about 40 percent for multiple choice.
Do MBE points come off for wrong answers?+
No. According to NCBE, scores are based on the number of questions answered correctly and points are not subtracted for incorrect answers.
Can I transfer a NextGen score to another state?+
Yes, between jurisdictions that participate in the UBE portability program, as with the legacy UBE, according to NCBE.