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You can transfer NextGen score to UBE state in most of the country, and roughly 28 jurisdictions began accepting transferred NextGen scores in July 2026. It is a per-jurisdiction election rather than automatic. Hawaii, Florida, New York, Virginia and Ohio are the named exceptions worth checking first.
Yes, and roughly 28 jurisdictions that will not administer NextGen until 2027 or 2028 began accepting transferred NextGen scores as of July 2026 (https://www.ncbex.org/exams/nextgen/nextgen-ube-scores-score-portability/nextgen-ube-decisions-jurisdiction).
NCBE states that in most jurisdictions qualifying scores from both the legacy UBE and the NextGen UBE will be accepted for transfer (https://www.ncbex.org/exams/nextgen/nextgen-ube-scores-score-portability).
Read 'most' literally. It is a per-jurisdiction election, not an automatic consequence of being a UBE jurisdiction, so the question is always what your target board has said rather than what the category implies.
Yes, and the same per-jurisdiction rule applies in reverse. The six July 2026 NextGen states that were previously UBE jurisdictions continue to accept legacy UBE scores under their own windows.
That matters for anyone holding a legacy score as the sunset approaches. A February 2028 pass is not stranded by the format change; it is governed by the receiving jurisdiction's validity window (https://www.ncbex.org/exams/ube/ube-maximum-score-age).
The two scales stay separate, though. A legacy score is compared against a legacy cut score and a NextGen score against a NextGen cut score, using NCBE's published mapping as the bridge (https://www.ncbex.org/sites/default/files/2025-11/FOR%20RELEASE%20NCBE%20NextGen%20Guidance%20Brief-Recommended%20Passing%20Score%20Range-2.pdf).
Four exceptions were live at verification and they are the whole value of this page.
Hawaii is listed as not accepting transferred NextGen scores at all. Florida, New York and Virginia will not accept NextGen transfers from any administration before July 2028 (https://www.ncbex.org/exams/nextgen/nextgen-ube-scores-score-portability/nextgen-ube-decisions-jurisdiction).
Ohio starts accepting them in November 2026 rather than July 2026, which is a four-month gap that catches anyone planning a same-cycle transfer.
If your target is one of those five, a July 2026 or February 2027 NextGen score does not buy you a route in, and you need a different plan rather than a hopeful application.
JurisdictionNextGen transfer position as publishedHawaiiNot accepting transferred NextGen scoresFloridaNot before the July 2028 administrationNew YorkNot before the July 2028 administrationVirginiaNot before the July 2028 administrationOhioAccepting from November 2026, not July 2026About 28 othersAccepting transferred NextGen scores from July 2026
From NCBE's NextGen decisions-by-jurisdiction table (https://www.ncbex.org/exams/nextgen/nextgen-ube-scores-score-portability/nextgen-ube-decisions-jurisdiction) and its score portability page (https://www.ncbex.org/exams/nextgen/nextgen-ube-scores-score-portability). Verified July 27, 2026.
Six jurisdictions have published a minimum for accepting a transferred NextGen score without setting a score for their own administration, because they do not administer NextGen yet.
Arizona 620, Minnesota 620, South Dakota 620, Utah 610, West Virginia 620 and Wyoming 620 (https://www.ncbex.org/exams/nextgen/nextgen-ube-scores-score-portability/nextgen-ube-decisions-jurisdiction).
Do not read those as the jurisdiction's eventual own cut score. They are the number it will accept from elsewhere, and the two can differ.
Character and fitness, in both directions. Only the score moves (https://www.ncbex.org/character-fitness/DC/fee-schedule).
And no NextGen-specific validity rule exists. NCBE's maximum score age chart covers the legacy UBE only (https://www.ncbex.org/exams/ube/ube-maximum-score-age), so a NextGen score sits inside whatever window the receiving jurisdiction already had.
No jurisdiction had processed a NextGen transfer at the time of writing, because the first NextGen administration was July 28 and 29, 2026. The conclusion that NextGen transfers behave like UBE transfers is an inference from NCBE's 'as with the current Uniform Bar Exam' language rather than from observed practice (https://www.ncbex.org/exams/nextgen).
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.
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 ube score transfer and nextgen bar exam states.
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.
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 NextGen and UBE score transfer 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.
Yes in most, and about 28 non-NextGen jurisdictions began accepting transferred NextGen scores in July 2026. It is a per-jurisdiction election rather than automatic.
Yes, under the receiving jurisdiction's own validity window. A legacy score is not stranded by the February 2028 sunset.
Hawaii is not accepting them at all. Florida, New York and Virginia will not accept them from any administration before July 2028, and Ohio starts in November 2026 rather than July.
Not when this was written. The first NextGen administration was July 28 and 29, 2026, so no jurisdiction had processed one and the mechanics are inferred from NCBE's language.
Written by Ali, Georgetown Law, founder of Lovare Institut.
July 30, 2026
July 30, 2026