This article outlines how I (an Attorney with no formal USA legal education) passed the July 2025 UBE with a score high enough for admittance in any UBE jurisdiction. After passing the CA Bar exam in 2022, I ended up in the mid-west! Fortunately, given my many years of experience as an attorney in Australia, I was able to become eligible to sit the Illinois Uniform Bar Exam (UBE) under Illinois Supreme Court Rule 715. You might think that passing the UBE would be easy enough (after passing the CA Bar). However, I can now speak from experience and advise that it isn’t that simple. In important ways (content tested, timing, structure and scoring), the first day of both exams are completely different, which means that if you don’t adapt your strategy accordingly, your will most likely fail!
