R. Gov. Admi. Miss. Bar. 3

As amended through October 31, 2024
Section 3 - Content of Petition

A Petition for Review shall be verified under oath by the applicant and shall designate the specific questions claimed to have been substantially misgraded. Requests for review shall be limited to particular questions on MSE examinations and on the MEE and MPT on which the applicant received a raw score of less than 75.0% of the maximum raw score points assigned to that question.

The applicant shall attach to his Petition for Review a separate Memorandum setting forth, for each examination designated in the Petition, the grounds for his request for review. To preserve anonymity during review, the Memorandum, which will be the only part of the Petition for Review circulated among members of the Review Committee and the Board, shall not mention the applicant's name and shall not be signed. For identification purposes, the applicant will use the coded number assigned him during the grading process. The Memorandum shall particularize how the grade awarded is unjustified by the merits of the answers. The Memorandum must include such citation of legal authority or other briefing as the applicant wishes to have considered by the Board. No generalized claims, not accompanied by a specification of errors, shall be considered by the Board.

No reference to the applicant's legal education, economic status, social standing, employment, personal hardship, past performance on Bar examinations, or other extraneous factors shall be made in the Petition or Memorandum or mentioned in any way in review proceedings. No applicant shall communicate directly with members of the Board concerning his performance on the examination. Any violation of this Rule shall result in the automatic denial of the Petition for Review.

R. Gov. Admi. Miss. Bar. 3

Effective 11/1/1991; amended3/14/1995 effective from and after7/1/1995, but examinations administered February 1995 are to be scored according to existing rules and also by the rules in the3/14/1995 order; amended effective 4/24/1997; amended effective 2/1/1998.