Official MPRE practice questions come from one source: NCBE, the organization that writes the MPRE.
Its study-aids pages post free sample questions alongside the subject matter outline, and sell three Simulated MPRE exams — each built from 60 retired MPRE questions with explanations — for $50 each or $125 as a bundle.
This page explains what the questions test, what official and free sources include, and how many to plan for.
Sample MPRE questions, explained
A sample question is only worth practicing with if it mirrors the live exam, so anchor on the format: 60 multiple-choice questions in a two-hour sitting, four answer choices each, with 50 of the 60 scored and 10 unscored pretest items mixed in.
There is no penalty for a wrong answer.
What the questions test matters just as much as their shape.
NCBE states the MPRE is not a test of personal ethical values — it measures knowledge of established standards of lawyer conduct.
Practice questions are where that frame becomes skill: the right answer is the one the written standards require, which is not always the one your instincts about the scenario prefer.
So work items slowly at first, answer from the standard rather than the gut feel, and read the explanations that accompany the Simulated MPRE sets even when you answered them correctly — that is where the gap between your instinct and the standard shows up.
Sample questions also tell you where your practice is thin.
NCBE's subject matter outline — one of its free materials — weights the twelve content areas the questions come from, from conflicts of interest at the top (12–18% of the exam) down to duties to the public (2–4%).
The MPRE guide lists every area and its weight; the short version for practice planning is that conflicts of interest, the client-lawyer relationship and litigation and advocacy carry the largest shares.
Official NCBE practice questions
Official has a concrete meaning here.
NCBE develops and administers the MPRE, and its study-aids catalog is the one place whose practice material comes from the exam's own writers.
As of October 2026 the catalog had two tiers:
- Free: MPRE sample test questions, a key words and phrases list, and the subject matter outline.
- Paid: Simulated MPRE 1, 2 and 3 — each a set of 60 retired MPRE questions with explanations, at $50 each or $125 for the three as a bundle.
The paid sets are the closest thing to a full rehearsal in NCBE's catalog: full-length at 60 questions, built from retired items — questions drawn from past administrations — and annotated with explanations.
Study aids are also a separate spend from the exam itself: the MPRE test fee is $185 for all 2026 and 2027 administrations, paid to Pearson when you register.
Prices and catalogs change
Free sources for MPRE practice questions
The free half of NCBE's catalog is short: the sample test questions, the key words and phrases list, and the subject matter outline, all posted on the same study-aids page that sells the Simulated MPREs.
Two of the three are not question sets at all — the outline is the weighting blueprint behind the questions, and the key words and phrases list is NCBE's own list of the exam's terminology.
Our research found no published count for the free sample set, so check NCBE's study-aids page before you build a schedule around it.
Beyond NCBE, our research verified no other free MPRE question bank we can point to — a statement about what primary sources document, not a survey of everything on the market.
If you add materials from a law school or a commercial prep provider, the reliable check is coverage: set them against NCBE's free outline and see whether the areas your practice is thinnest in are actually represented.
How many MPRE practice questions to do
Our research found no official number of questions to hit: NCBE's own study-aid descriptions say what each product contains, not how much of it to use — so treat any specific question-count prescription as a rule of thumb, not an NCBE standard.
The useful benchmark is the exam's own shape.
It runs 60 questions against a two-hour clock, so make at least some of your practice full-length and timed rather than untimed drill; each Simulated MPRE is exactly exam length, which makes the three of them three complete timed runs.
Answer every item in practice the way you will on exam day — there is no penalty for a wrong answer, so a blank gives up the only free chance at credit the format offers.
Between runs, put review time where the weights are: conflicts of interest first (12–18% of the exam), then the client-lawyer relationship and litigation and advocacy (10–16% each), and last on duties to the public (2–4%).
And set your finishing line by your own target rather than a generic one — MPRE scaled scores run from 50 to 150 and each jurisdiction sets its own passing score, so the score you are practicing toward is your jurisdiction's, not a national one.
For the score thresholds jurisdiction by jurisdiction, and for registration windows and deadlines, see the MPRE guide.
Career information, not legal advice — confirm your jurisdiction's MPRE requirement and required score with its bar admission authority, and current study-aid offerings and prices with NCBE.
Verify the target before you decide you are done