Turn exam time into usable practice checkpoints.
For legacy components, Testify calculates from NCBE's published timing: 100 MBE questions in three hours, 30 minutes per MEE essay, and 90 minutes per MPT. For NextGen, the tool shows the official three-session structure without inventing a fixed per-item pace for mixed task types.
CALCULATOR
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TARGET TIME
25 MBE questions
45 minOfficial-session pace: about 1 minute 48 seconds per question.
NEXTGEN UBE
Session 1180 minutes
Session 2180 minutes
Session 3180 minutes
No fake item timerMixed task types do not justify one universal minutes-per-question rule.
Three mixed three-hour sessions.
9 hoursNCBE currently describes the NextGen UBE as three sections of three hours each over one and a half days. Each section mixes standalone multiple-choice questions, integrated question sets, and a performance task.
Practice implication: build endurance in three-hour mixed blocks and use official NCBE materials for the controlling task sequence and test-day instructions.
MBE pacing
NCBE divides the legacy MBE into two three-hour sessions of 100 questions each. That works out to 1.8 minutes per question at full-session pace.
Official NCBE MBE format ↗MEE pacing
The legacy MEE consists of six 30-minute questions. For practice, multiplying essay count by 30 minutes preserves the official component pace.
Official NCBE MEE format ↗MPT pacing
The legacy MPT consists of two 90-minute items. A jurisdiction may use one or both, while UBE jurisdictions use both.
Official NCBE MPT format ↗NextGen timing
The NextGen UBE uses three three-hour mixed sessions. Testify intentionally does not convert those mixed tasks into an unsupported universal per-item timer.
Official NCBE NextGen structure ↗Use this for pacing, not prediction: finishing a practice set on time does not predict a scaled score or bar passage. Your jurisdiction's current test-day instructions control.