The Virginia module, the twelfth state beyond California, after Florida, Louisiana, New York, Texas, Illinois, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Georgia, Washington, and North Carolina.

Virginia is the twelfth concrete state instantiated from the shared UBE template — the same MBE bank, MEE outlines, MPT workspace, and study-guide library California, Florida, Louisiana, New York, Texas, Illinois, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Georgia, Washington, and North Carolina shipped with, re-tuned for the Virginia Board of Bar Examiners (VBBE) under the Supreme Court of Virginia Rules, Part 6 and the Code of Virginia governing the doctrine the VA MEE graders are reading for (Va. Code § 54.1-3926.A eligibility, § 54.1-3919 character & fitness, § 54.1-3926.C MPRE, § 54.1-3929 UBE transfer; Title 13.1 VSCA corporations, Title 64.2 intestacy / wills / UTC, Title 20 family law, § 55.1-406 / § 8.01-236 / § 55.1-301 real property).

The single-state purchase matches California, Florida, Louisiana, New York, Texas, Illinois, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Georgia, Washington, and North Carolina at $499 one-time — a deliberate parity that keeps the per-state cost obvious while the UBE bundle rolls out one state at a time.

Already enrolled in California? See the California module · or jump to one of the other live pilots: New York · Texas · Illinois · Massachusetts · Pennsylvania · New Jersey · Georgia · Washington · North Carolina . From the Barstudyprep blog you can also see every state’s post in one index.

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Module pieces

Four pieces, VA overlay.

The Virginia module mirrors the four-piece shape California, Florida, Louisiana, New York, Texas, Illinois, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Georgia, Washington, and North Carolina shipped with — an MBE bank, MEE outlines with a Virginia doctrine overlay, an MPT workspace, and the study-guide library. Each piece is reachable inside the dashboard the moment the access pass unlocks.

Practice · MBE

Multistate MBE bank

A calibrated 7-subject MBE question bank, sized for a 90-day run toward the Feb 2027 VA administration (Tue 2027-02-23 / Wed 2027-02-24). Civil Procedure, Contracts, Evidence, Torts, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Real Property — each tagged by topic and weighted to current NCBE scoring distributions.

7 subjects · ~600+ questions

Included in the $499 access pass.

Outlines · MEE

MEE essay outlines with VA overlay

The 6 MEE fact patterns, each with a substantive IRAC outline. The Business Associations, Wills/Trusts/Estates, Family Law, and Real Property outlines carry a Virginia-specific overlay: Business Associations reads the Virginia Stock Corporation Act at Va. Code Title 13.1 (the VSCA, not BCL/DGCL/NCBCA) — the VA overlay flags VA-specific doctrines on director duties under Va. Code § 13.1-690 (the VA "business judgment" rule framed by statute, AND the § 13.1-690(A) duty-of-loyalty and § 13.1-690(B) duty-of-care overlay the VA graders watch for in dissolution-fact-pattern answers), shareholder agreements and the VA-statutory close-corporation provisions under § 13.1-661 et seq., and the appraisal / dissenters’ rights regime under Va. Code § 13.1-729 et seq. (the VA statutory appraisal remedy the VA Circuit Court reads in Circuit Court practice under the Rules of the Supreme Court of Virginia); Wills/Trusts/Estates reads the Virginia intestacy framework at Va. Code Title 64.2 (intestate succession at § 64.2-200 et seq., the VA-specific share-rules at § 64.2-201 for descendants and § 64.2-202 for ancestors — distinct from the UPC § 2-103 framing), wills at Va. Code Title 64.2 Chapter 4 (testamentary capacity at § 64.2-401, will execution at § 64.2-402, the two-witness attestation rule at § 64.2-403, self-proved wills at § 64.2-452, and the revived-will doctrine under § 64.2-410), and the Virginia Uniform Trust Code at § 64.2-700 et seq. (trust administration, trustee duties, the UTC framework distinct from older federal-trust-act doctrine). The elective-share framework historically sat at Va. Code § 64.2-302 — the VA overlay flags the historical doctrine and the current rule so the candidate is prepared either way; Family Law reads the Virginia Domestic Relations framework at Va. Code Title 20 — divorce under § 20-91 (no-fault + fault grounds at § 20-91(A)(1)–(9)), equitable distribution of marital property under § 20-107.3 with the § 20-107.3(A) factor list (almost identical in shape to NC’s § 50-20 14-factor and OH’s R.C. 3105.171(B) 14-factor — the VA overlay flags the parallel so candidates don’t over-credit the distinction), child custody under § 20-108 (best-interest standard) and Chapter 20-1300 UCCJEA jurisdiction framework, and civil domestic-violence protective orders under Chapter 20-1031 (the VA DVPO framework distinct from criminal DV-charges practice under § 18.2-57 et seq.); Real Property reads the Virginia recording statute at Va. Code § 55.1-406 (a notice-race jurisdiction — the same recording-act type as NJ and NC), adverse possession under § 8.01-236 (the 15-year statutory period, with the 7-year color-of-title shortcut the VA overlay flags as a recurring grading-trap), and Virginia NON-JUDICIAL deed-of-trust power-of-sale foreclosure under Va. Code § 55.1-301 (the prototypical non-judicial deed-of-trust foreclosure — distinct from NC’s JUDICIAL § 45-21.16 foreclosure and from WA’s RCW 61.24 non-judicial Trust-Deed-Act foreclosure practice).

6 MEE outlines · VA-specific overlay

Included in the $499 access pass.

MPT · scaffolding

MPT workspace + VA-tuned libraries

A pair of MPT tasks under a 90-minute budget, with the Virginia-specific file/library combinations surface first — Virginia Circuit Court civil pleadings under the Rules of the Supreme Court of Virginia, Part 5 framework, with local-rule variance under each county (Fairfax County / Fairfax City under Fairfax Cir. Ct. Loc. R., Henrico County / Richmond under Henrico Cir. Ct. Loc. R., Virginia Beach City under Virginia Beach Cir. Ct. Loc. R., and Chesterfield County under Chesterfield Cir. Ct. Loc. R. — each VA Circuit Court locality has distinctive local rules the VA graders watch for); Virginia Court of Appeals brief format under Rule 5A of the Rules of the Supreme Court of Virginia (Statement of the Case / Argument / Conclusion headings, parallel to the appellate-brief format convention used in OH, GA, MA, WA, etc.); Virginia Supreme Court briefs under Rules of the Supreme Court of Virginia, Part 5; and Virginia probate filings under Va. Code Title 64.2 with the § 64.2-700 et seq. UTC administration framework (probate-court jurisdiction over petitions, accounts, and trust-administration orders). The workspace shows the task-model skeleton, the time markers, and an exemplar paragraph-by-paragraph scaffold.

2 MPT tasks · 90 min · VA libraries

Included in the $499 access pass.

Guides · strategy

Study guides + 90-day paced calendar

Ten-plus guides covering MBE strategy, IRAC scaffolding, MPT format, the VBBE application & Va. Code § 54.1-3919 character & fitness disclosure (10-year + academic-misconduct disclosure the VBBE reads strictly), ABA-accredited-JD eligibility under Va. Code § 54.1-3926.A (with the LLM alternative for foreign-trained lawyers who already hold a U.S. admission or comparable), UBE score transfer into Virginia under Va. Code § 54.1-3929 (266+ within 3 years), the MPRE (≥ 80) sequencing — NCBE-certified and on file with the VBBE before admission is approved — as a pre-admission prerequisite, the Virginia Lawyers Helping Lawyers (LHL) disclosure path on the Va. Code § 54.1-3919 questionnaire, MCLE compliance under the Supreme Court of Virginia Rules, Part 6 § 17 (12 hours per year including 2 hours of ethics / professional responsibility plus the New Admittee Professional Course within the first year of admission), and the Feb-2027 administration calendar anchored to a Mon 2026-11-23 start → Tue 2027-02-23 exam day. The calendar regenerates against your window.

10+ guides · 90-day calendar

Included in the $499 access pass.

Virginia module · FAQ

The seven questions Virginia candidates ask us.

These are the questions candidates ask before purchase — how the module differs from a generic UBE prep, when the next administration is, the transfer rule, the $499 scope, the 266 passing-scaled score floor, the Va. Code § 54.1-3926.A ABA-accredited JD requirement, and the optional Virginia Lawyers Helping Lawyers (LHL) disclosure path.

How does the Virginia module differ from a generic UBE prep?

The MBE bank, MEE fact patterns, and MPT scaffolds are a single shared UBE catalogue — what the Virginia module adds is the VA-specific overlay: the eligibility pathway (JD from an ABA-approved law school under Va. Code § 54.1-3926.A — no law-office-study alternative; the LLM path requires one year of study at an ABA-approved U.S. law school, and admission in another U.S. jurisdiction or comparable), the UBE score-transfer pathway within 3 years of the test date under Va. Code § 54.1-3929, MPRE scoring ≥ 80 and the NCBE-on-file requirement (the MPRE must be on file with the VBBE before admission is approved), the 266 passing-scaled UBE score floor (the default UBE floor shared with NY/TX/MA/IL/PA/NJ/OH/NC/WA/etc. — distinct from Georgia’s 270 floor, so a 266 transfers into Virginia without an upgrade), and the Virginia doctrine the MEE graders are reading for — Va. Code Title 13.1 (the VSCA) in Corporations, Va. Code Title 64.2 intestacy + Title 64.2 Chapter 4 wills + § 64.2-700 et seq. trusts in Wills / Trusts / Estates (with the historical § 64.2-302 elective share framework flagged), Va. Code Title 20 / § 20-107.3 with the § 20-107.3(A) factor list in Family Law (parallel in shape to NC’s § 50-20 14-factor and OH’s R.C. 3105.171(B) 14-factor), and Va. Code § 55.1-406 (VA recording act, notice-race) + § 8.01-236 15-year AP + § 55.1-301 NON-JUDICIAL deed-of-trust power-of-sale foreclosure in Real Property. The module ships those overlays inline, plus a 10-year § 54.1-3919 C&F disclosure guide and the transfer-window playbook for an out-of-state UBE.

When is the next VA UBE administration?

The Feb 2027 VA UBE is administered on the last Tuesday of February 2027 (Tue 2027-02-23 / Wed 2027-02-24), the same Feb / July last-Tuesday schedule as the rest of the UBE jurisdictions. The VBBE posts the application window roughly four months ahead (early October for the February cycle, with a priority deadline typically eight weeks before the exam); late-filing fees climb sharply after the priority deadline. The July 2027 cycle follows the same pattern on the last Tuesday of July.

Can I transfer a UBE score into Virginia?

Yes — under Va. Code § 54.1-3929, Virginia accepts a transferred UBE passing-scaled score of 266 or higher (the default UBE floor) earned in another UBE jurisdiction within the prior 3 years. A transfer candidate must still satisfy every Va. Code § 54.1 eligibility requirement, including the 10-year character & fitness disclosure under Va. Code § 54.1-3919, the ABA-accredited-JD requirement under Va. Code § 54.1-3926.A (or the LLM alternative for foreign-trained lawyers who already hold a U.S. admission or comparable), and the MPRE (≥ 80, NCBE-certified, on file before admission). The VBBE receives the transfer application and reviews it in the same eligibility framework as a sitter. There is no VA waiver of the MPRE, and there is no VA waiver of the 266 score floor (the VA 266 floor is the default UBE floor, not the higher GA 270 floor — distinct from Georgia, which requires 270).

What does the $499 access pass include?

The MBE bank, the MEE outlines (with VA overlay across Va. Code Title 13.1 / VSCA in Corporations, Va. Code Title 64.2 intestacy + Title 64.2 Chapter 4 wills + § 64.2-700 UTC in Wills/Trusts/Estates including the § 64.2-302 elective share, Va. Code Title 20 / § 20-107.3 with the § 20-107.3(A) factor list in Family Law, and the Va. Code § 55.1-406 recording act + § 8.01-236 15-year AP + § 55.1-301 NON-JUDICIAL deed-of-trust power-of-sale foreclosure in Real Property), the MPT workspace with VA libraries (VA Circuit Court civil pleadings under Rules of the Supreme Court of Virginia, Part 5 + county Loc. R. variance under Fairfax, Henrico, Virginia Beach, Chesterfield, VA Court of Appeals Rule 5A briefs, Rules of the Supreme Court of Virginia Part 5 VA Supreme Court briefs, Va. Code Title 64.2 probate filings under § 64.2-700 et seq. UTC administration framework), the full study-guide library, the 90-day paced calendar anchored to a Mon 2026-11-23 start, and AI-graded essay submissions against the MEE rubric. One purchase, no subscription, no second SKU — the $499 access pass unlocks the Virginia bundle end-to-end.

What is the VA passing UBE scaled score?

Virginia uses a UBE passing-scaled score of 266 — the default UBE floor shared with NY, TX, MA, IL, PA, NJ, OH, NC, WA, and most other UBE-adopting jurisdictions. Georgia stands apart at 270; Virginia does NOT impose that higher floor. The MBE, MEE, and MPT components combine into a single 400-point scaled score; below 266 the candidate must re-sit. The VBBE does not impose a state-specific essay component on top of the MEE/UBE scoring; the 266 floor is itself a sufficient condition for VA admission under Va. Code § 54.1-3929, subject to Va. Code § 54.1-3919 C&F and Va. Code § 54.1-3926.C MPRE.

Does Virginia require an ABA-accredited JD?

Yes — under Va. Code § 54.1-3926.A, every applicant for admission must hold a juris doctor from a law school accredited by the American Bar Association at the time of graduation. Unlike some UBE states, Virginia does not offer a law-office-study / apprenticeship admission pathway; the JD from an ABA-approved law school is the primary academic route. The LLM alternative requires one year of study at an ABA-approved U.S. law school, and admission in another U.S. jurisdiction or comparable — that is the only departure from the strict ABA-JD rule, and it is for LLM-trained foreign lawyers who already hold a U.S. admission or comparable, not a general apprenticeship path.

What is the Virginia Lawyers Helping Lawyers (LHL) program?

The Virginia Lawyers Helping Lawyers (LHL) program is a peer-support counselling resource for attorneys and bar applicants with substance-use or mental-health concerns. Participation in the LHL may be disclosed on the Va. Code § 54.1-3919 character & fitness questionnaire and is not disqualifying — it is treated as a mitigating disclosure rather than a basis to deny admission. The program is administered separately from the VBBE character & fitness review and is voluntary. The LHL parallels WA LAP, NJ LARP, GA GLCP, MA LCL, OH OLAP, and NC NCLAP — each is a non-public disclosure path for attorney/applicant wellbeing that does not, on its own, affect fitness under the jurisdiction’s C&F rules.

Pricing · live

$499. One-time.

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