Tennessee Board of Law Examiners

Applications for the February 2024 UBE in Tennessee open in Synergy on Sunday, October 1, 2024. New Checklists have been added to the Forms file for First-Time Applicants and for Re-Examination Applicants.

There is a new filing requirement beginning with the February 2024 Examination Application. On or before the Final Deadline, Applicants must read the General Instruction Manual, which will be posted here, and UPLOAD THE COMPLETED AND SIGNED ACKNOWLEDGMENT FORM, found here or in Forms, on or before the Final Deadline. The Manual and Acknowledgment Form will be posted here on or before October 2, 2024.

Grades for the July 2023 Uniform Bar Examination in Tennessee are scheduled to be released on October 6, 2023, by 2:00 p.m. Central Time. The Pass List will be posted to this website under Success List.

An email with exam results will be sent to each examinee. If your name does not appear on this list, you either did not achieve the minimum score for admission in Tennessee on the examination or your score is being held for other reasons. Please carefully read all of the information in the email. If you must contact the BLE office, please do so by email as we do not answer questions by phone regarding results.

TENNESSEE GENERAL INSTRUCTION MANUAL:

The Tennessee General Instruction Manual (“Manual”) for the July 2023 Examination was emailed to all eligible examinees on Wednesday, June 14, 2023. Please check your Synergy account in Letters if you do not receive the email. In the Manual, you will find pertinent information regarding the exam location, testing policies, and exam day procedures. You will be required to acknowledge that you have received and read the Manual by returning the Acknowledgment Form that was sent with the Manual. The Acknowledgment Form must be uploaded to your Synergy account by 3:00 p.m. CT, June 21, 2023. If the either or both of the documents are not attached to the email, please LOGIN TO SYNERGY (https://synergy.tnble.com), select your current application, and view the letter transmitting the Manual and Acknowledgement Form in Synergy. At the top of the letter are links to the Manual and the Acknowledgment Form. A copy of the Manual has been posted to the website under Admission by Examination – Examination Locations and Schedule.

EXAMSOFT REGISTRATION:

ExamSoft Registration opens on Tuesday, June 20, 2023 at 9:00 a.m. CT. You will receive an email from ExamSoft with your login credentials and instructions. Registration closes on Tuesday, June 27, 2023 at 4:00 p.m. CT.

You must register with ExamSoft and download the software on or before 4:00 p.m. CT, June 27, 2023. If you do not complete the registration for and download of the software by the deadline, you will not be permitted use your laptop for the July 2023 Examination and will be required to handwrite your answers.

The mock exam is mandatory and must be downloaded, completed, and uploaded by 3:00 p.m., CT, June 30, 2023. If you do not upload the completed mock exam by the deadline, you will not be permitted to use your laptop for the July 2023 xamination and will be required to handwrite your answers. 

The results of the February 2023 Uniform Bar Examination in Tennessee will be released April 13, 2023, no later than 2:00 p.m. Results will be posted here. Examinees will receive a letter from the Board regarding their scores and next steps by close of business on Monday, April 17, 2023. Please do not call the office as scores will not be released by phone or by email.

UPDATE: The list of Successful Examinees has been posted here. The Examination Statistics can be found here.

The Board of Law Examiners updated the link to forms. If you receive an error message when trying to access a form, please clear your history and cache, and do not use saved links. Go to the “Forms” link for Admission by Examination Score or Admission Without Examination to download forms.

Applications for the July 2023 Administration of the UBE in Tennessee are open. The Initial Deadline for applications is May 1 and the final deadline is May 20. Please see the instructions for the application and the related Rules and Procedures.

The Synergy Application System is down for maintenance. It is anticipated that the system will be back online by mid-day today, January 17, 2023. Please check here for updates.

As of 11:35 a.m. CST, the Synergy Application System is back online. It is recommended that you clear your browsing history prior to trying to access the website at https://synergy.tnble.com.

The Tennessee General Instruction Manual (“Manual”) for the February 2023 Examination will be emailed to all eligible examinees on or before 5:00 p.m. CST on Wednesday, January 11, 2023. Please check your Synergy account in Letters if you do not receive the email by that time. In the Manual, you will find pertinent information regarding the exam location, testing policies, and exam day procedures. You will be required to acknowledge that you have received and read the Manual by returning the Acknowledgment Form that you will be sent. The Acknowledgment Form must be uploaded to your Synergy account by 3:00 p.m. CT, January 20, 2023. A copy of the Manual has been posted to the website under Admission by Examination – Examination Locations and Schedule.

EXAMSOFT REGISTRATION: ExamSoft registration for eligible Tennessee applicants opens on Wednesday, January 18, 2023, at 9:00 a.m. CT and closes on January 25, 2023, at 3:00 p.m. CT. You will receive an email from ExamSoft with the registration information.

If you wish to handwrite the exam, you do not need to respond to the registration emails.

The Tennessee Board of Law Examiners filed a Petition to Amend Tennessee Supreme Court Rule 6 Governing Admission of Attorneys and Rule 7 Governing Licensing of Attorneys (No. ADM2022-01449). A copy of the Petition, which includes a summary of the proposed changes, as well as a red-line version and a conformed copy of the proposed changes can be found on the Governing Authorities page of this website.

The Supreme Court has ordered that comments be submitted to the Clerk of the Appellate Courts on or before January 20, 2023.

UPDATE 10/10/22 The List of Successful Exam-Takers and Statistics for the July 2022 Uniform Bar Examination in Tennessee have been posted to the website. The overall pass rate is 62.36% for 736 exam-takers. There were 622 first-time exam-takers, 433 of whom passed the exam for a first-time pass rate of 69.61%.

Examinees have received an email with results. Any attachments to the email can be viewed in the email or in the “Letters” tab in the examinee Synergy account.