July 2018
Essay 1: Contracts
Separate the agreed delivery extension from any later anticipatory repudiation.
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2018 California Bar Exam
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Ten original essay responses and two performance-test examples, covering July and February. Read the actual questions, numbered pointers, and issue outlines directly in your browser.
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July’s PT example is a persuasive moral-turpitude argument in the Watkins disciplinary matter. February’s is an objective gift-classification memorandum in Meaney v. University Trustees. Each follows its own task instructions.
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July 2018
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July 2018
Essay 2: Evidence
The stipulated business-record foundation does not resolve hearsay inside the recording.
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Essay 3: Professional Responsibility
Apply the California rules in force before November 2018 and compare the ABA rules.
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Essay 4: Community Property
Trace the pension and premarital townhouse separately from community mortgage contributions.
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Essay 5: Constitutional Law
Compare dormant-Commerce-Clause regulation with the state’s direct participation as a carrier.
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Performance Test: In the Matter of Abigail Watkins
Draft the requested persuasive argument on moral turpitude, without a separate facts section or a discipline recommendation.
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February 2018
Essay 1: Contracts & Professional Responsibility
Distinguish a technically true half-truth from a duty to disclose a known latent defect.
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Essay 2: Constitutional Law
Use the establishment framework applicable to the 2018 exam and distinguish the secular-content counterargument.
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Essay 3: Real Property & Torts
Apply private nuisance to ordinary residential enjoyment and identify proportionate relief.
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Essay 4: Criminal Law & Procedure
Submission to an announced search is not necessarily voluntary consent.
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Essay 5: Wills & Succession
Read the will together with the republishing codicil and apply the survival condition to Wendy.
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Performance Test: Meaney v. University Trustees
Write an objective classification memo, without a separate statement of facts.
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