MBE Percentiles (July 2017)

As they do each administration, the Illinois Bar Examiners have released nationwide MBE percentiles for the July 2017 exam.  My thoughts on the numbers:

The data we don't have is the number of points that any given raw score was scaled up to achieve any given scaled score.   Looking at the data, a 140 scaled score would place in you in the 47th percentile in July 2017. In comparison, a 140 scaled score would have placed you in the 69th percentile on the February 2017 exam.  This indicates that on average students scored higher in July 2017 than in February 2017 since the same scaled score places you in a lower percentile in July.

Some other points to note: A 145 scaled score would place you in the 58th percentile, a 150 the 68th percentile, and a 155 the 78th percentile. The 90th percentile requires somewhere between a 160-165 scaled score. The top percentile listed (99th) required a 175 scaled score and the lowest percentile (1st) was a scaled score of 105.