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MPRE dates for 2026 are March 24 and 25, August 11 and 12, and November 12 and 13, at a $185 fee. There is no late registration of any kind and no transferring a registration between administrations. The 2027 dates and fee were not published by NCBE at verification.
Three times a year. The 2026 administrations are March 24 and 25, August 11 and 12, and November 12 and 13 (https://www.ncbex.org/exams/mpre/registering-mpre).
Registration deadlines for those were January 22, June 11 and September 17, 2026.
The 2027 MPRE dates were not published by NCBE at verification, so this page says not yet published rather than projecting them from the 2026 pattern.
2026 administrationRegistration deadlineMarch 24 and 25, 2026January 22, 2026August 11 and 12, 2026June 11, 2026November 12 and 13, 2026September 17, 2026
From NCBE's MPRE registration page (https://www.ncbex.org/exams/mpre/registering-mpre). Verified July 27, 2026. 2027 dates and the 2027 fee were not published by NCBE at that date.
$185 for 2026 (https://www.ncbex.org/exams/mpre/registering-mpre). The 2027 fee was not published at verification.
Rescheduling costs $25 and must happen at least 48 hours before your appointment, within the same administration.
You cannot transfer or extend a registration from one administration to another at any price. If you miss your window, you re-register and pay again.
The dates in the table above, and they are hard.
There is no late registration. NCBE states that absolutely no new registrations will be accepted after the deadline (https://www.ncbex.org/exams/mpre/registering-mpre).
You must complete registration, schedule with Pearson VUE and pay by 11:59 p.m. central time on the deadline. All three, not just the first.
Both are procedural, both are avoidable, and both catch people every cycle.
First, accommodations must be approved BEFORE you register, because accommodations cannot be added to an existing test appointment (https://www.ncbex.org/exams/mpre/registering-mpre). If you register first and apply for accommodations second, you have to unwind it.
Second, Pearson VUE scheduling must happen within 48 hours of the Authorization to Test email. Miss that window and your seat is not held.
Neither of those is on the headline registration page in large type. Both are the difference between sitting and not.
There is no published national cap on total MPRE attempts.
The one hard NCBE restriction is per-administration: registering for or taking the MPRE more than once in the same administration is prohibited conduct (https://www.ncbex.org/exams/mpre/mpre-test-day-policies).
Jurisdictions may impose their own limits, and that is a board question rather than an NCBE one.
All 2027 MPRE dates and the 2027 fee were not published by NCBE at verification.
The exact partial refund amount on MPRE cancellation was also not published, and neither were calendar score-release dates for the 2026 administrations beyond the approximately-five-weeks rule.
This page is one spoke of a cluster. The hub is our NextGen bar exam pillar, which carries the whole transition in one place and links every spoke including this one.
The two most closely related pages here are what is the mpre and when to take the mpre.
Everything across the cluster is drawn from the same verified fact set and carries the same verified-as-of date, so the numbers agree with each other by construction rather than by coincidence.
Every fact here was read on NCBE's own pages or the jurisdiction's own board or supreme court pages on July 27, 2026. No prep company, no aggregator, no forum and no news summary was used as a source for anything.
Where a jurisdiction's own site was unreachable, robots-blocked or JavaScript-gated, we say the fact rests on NCBE alone rather than presenting it as confirmed. That happened more often than you would expect and it is named on the page each time.
Where two official sources disagree, we publish the conflict and name which one we treat as operational. We do not pick quietly and we do not average them.
Where nothing is published, the page says not yet published by the board. It never says a number we worked out ourselves, because an estimate that looks like a disclosure is worse than a gap.
It cannot tell you what your own board will do. Jurisdictions set their own dates, fees, cut scores, deadlines and admission rules, and NCBE compiles those decisions rather than making them.
It cannot substitute for reading your jurisdiction's rule text. Compilation charts are an index into the rules, not the rules, and every material decision should be checked against the authority itself.
The first is adoption. Supreme courts issue orders on their own schedule and NCBE's compilation pages lag them, which is exactly what happened with California in July 2026.
The second is the calendar. Most jurisdictions had not posted 2027 dates or 2027 fees at verification, and several were serving prior-cycle pages without saying so.
The third is cut scores. NCBE states on its own page that jurisdictions are currently evaluating its recommended NextGen range (https://www.ncbex.org/exams/nextgen/minimum-passing-scores), so that list grows month by month.
None of those three settles before autumn. Treat September as the re-check point for anything on this page that carries a date or a number.
Start at NCBE's jurisdiction index (https://www.ncbex.org/jurisdictions) to find the name of your admitting authority, which is often not the state bar association and is sometimes a board sitting under the supreme court.
Then go to that authority's own site and look for a dated page. A page with no cycle label is the warning sign, not the exception; several boards serve prior-cycle information with no year on it anywhere.
Cross-check the deadlines page against the program page, because they disagree more often than they should. We found boards contradicting themselves on dates in the same week.
If the two disagree and you cannot tell which is current, email the board and keep the reply. A dated email from the board is better evidence than any table, including this one.
One framing point that governs this whole page. The first NextGen administration was July 28 and 29, 2026 (https://www.ncbex.org/exams/nextgen), so at the time of writing no NextGen exam had been sat anywhere in the world and no results existed. There is no NextGen pass rate, no score distribution, no repeater data and no retrospective on how it went, and anyone offering you one is inventing it.
That matters on this page specifically, because the transition is the reason any of it is moving. Structure, dates and published policy are reportable now; outcomes are not.
NCBE has not published a NextGen mean or standard deviation either. The figures are absent from the Guidance Brief, the Examinees' Guide, the Blueprint and every scoring page (https://www.ncbex.org/sites/default/files/2025-11/FOR%20RELEASE%20NCBE%20NextGen%20Guidance%20Brief-Recommended%20Passing%20Score%20Range-2.pdf), which is worth knowing before you read anyone's confident claim about difficulty.
Open your own jurisdiction's board page and confirm every date and number on this page against it.
Where this page says not yet published, check again in September, which is when most boards refresh.
If your plan turns on a figure here, get it from the board in writing rather than from any table.
Everything on this page about MPRE dates and registration was read on the source pages listed inline on July 27, 2026, and the date is on the page rather than buried in a footer because this material moves faster than anything else we publish.
Three separate clocks are running against it. Supreme courts issue adoption orders and NCBE's own pages lag them.
Most jurisdictions had not posted 2027 dates or fees. NextGen passing scores are being set jurisdiction by jurisdiction right now, and NCBE says so on its own page (https://www.ncbex.org/exams/nextgen/minimum-passing-scores).
Re-check your own jurisdiction's board before you rely on any date or number here, including ours. A figure quoted anywhere without a cycle label and a date attached is unverified by definition.
Three times a year. The 2026 dates are March 24 and 25, August 11 and 12, and November 12 and 13. The 2027 dates were not published by NCBE at verification.
$185 for 2026. Rescheduling is $25 and must be at least 48 hours before, within the same administration. The 2027 fee was not published.
January 22, June 11 and September 17, 2026 for the three 2026 administrations. There is no late registration of any kind.
No. Accommodations must be approved before you register, because they cannot be added to an existing test appointment.
Written by Ali, Georgetown Law, founder of Lovare Institut.
July 30, 2026
July 30, 2026