It is the longest bar exam in the United States, consisting of 21 hours of examination on nine topic areas.
To sit for the exam, an applicant must graduate from an ABA-accredited law school and be deemed of good moral character.
[1] Testing is done on the Monday, Wednesday, and Friday of the designated exam week, with nothing on Tuesday and Thursday; it is the only bar examination in the United States not administered on consecutive days.
Wednesday's session covers Louisiana Code of Civil Procedure, Torts, and Business Entities.
The exam is almost entirely subjective essay questions, with some objective true/false or short-answer questions occasionally thrown in, depending on the specific examiner for that subject area; however, the exam is either entirely hand written or typed on a computer.
[5] Hurricane Katrina affected a small number of the July 2005 applicants whose answers were destroyed when graders' offices and homes were flooded.
Most applicants were not directly affected, as they had already met the minimum requirements for passing without relying on the answers that were destroyed.