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The Nevada bar exam and the new Nevada Plan

The traditional Nevada bar exam is gone. July 2026 was its last sitting. To get a Nevada law license now, you complete the Nevada Comprehensive Licensing Examination, called the Nevada Plan, which took effect on January 19, 2026. It has four parts you take separately, some of them during law school, plus character and fitness.

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Updated October 2026 · Written from official sources, listed at the bottom of this page

What replaced the Nevada bar exam?

The State Bar of Nevada says there will be no more sittings of the old format: six Nevada essays, the MBE and two Nevada Performance Tests. Instead you pass four components:

  • The MPRE, NCBE's ethics exam. You can take it during law school.
  • The Foundational Law Exam (FLE), once you've earned 42 law school credits.
  • The Supervised Practice Program (SPP), also from 42 credits.
  • The Lawyering Performance Exam (LPE), only after you graduate.

You can apply for character and fitness once three of the four are done and the last one is booked. Your law degree must be from an ABA-accredited school, or the Functional Equivalency Committee must approve it first.

The Foundational Law Exam

It's 100 closed-book multiple-choice questions on a computer, about 4 hours, at a Prometric test center anywhere in the US (not abroad). You get 14 or 15 questions on each of seven subjects: real property, contracts, torts, federal civil procedure, evidence, criminal law and procedure, and constitutional law. You pass with a scale score of 75 or higher, and it isn't graded on a curve.

The next dates are December 17-18, 2026, then February 18-19, May 27-28, August 19-20 and October 28-29, 2027. From 2027 it runs four times a year.

The Lawyering Performance Exam and supervised practice

The LPE is three practical scenarios, two hours each, typed on your laptop in person in Las Vegas. It's given in January and June: the next dates are January 19, 2027 and June 22, 2027. Registration for January 2027 closes November 30, 2026.

The SPP is at least 40 hours of supervised work, including at least four set tasks, one of them interviewing or counseling a client. You can do it in a law school clinic or externship, an approved Nevada legal aid program or a Nevada government office. Lawyers with more than six months of licensed practice in the last two years can ask to be exempt.

Time limits, retakes and fees

All components have to fall within six years: three years before and three after you pass the LPE. There's no limit on attempts inside that window. Each component has its own fee on the State Bar's fee page, a late fee of $550 per component, and no refunds, as of October 2026.

Nevada doesn't offer admission on motion, according to NCBE's guide, so lawyers from other states go through the Nevada Plan too. NCBE also lists Nevada as a state that hasn't adopted the NextGen bar exam.

How reciprocity works in other states →

July 2026 Nevada bar exam results

The last traditional Nevada bar exam was in July 2026. The State Bar posted an unofficial pass list and emailed official results on October 2, 2026. NCBE reports that 50% of 305 takers passed, and 56% of first-timers. If you sat in July 2026, the State Bar says to wait for your results before doing anything else.

Bar exam pass rates by state →
Sources: State Bar of Nevada · NCBE · NCBE Comprehensive Guide, Chart 14 and 7 more. Checked October 2026.

Rules and fees can change, so check the official site before your test.

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