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Ube-Shopping: An Unintended Consequence Of Portability?, Suzanne Darrow Kleinhaus
Ube-Shopping: An Unintended Consequence Of Portability?, Suzanne Darrow Kleinhaus
Suzanne Darrow Kleinhaus
Preparing for the Uniform Bar Examination (UBE) may require more than just learning the law; it also means learning in which jurisdiction you should take it. While there is not much that is new about the UBE’s individual components – the Multistate Essay Examination (MEE), the Multistate Performance Test (MPT) and the Multistate Bar Examination (MBE) – what is new is that where you take the UBE may make the difference between passing and failing. This is possible because of the convergence of bar exam test practices of “portability,” “relative grading,” and “scaling” of scores. By adopting the UBE, jurisdictions …