July 2025
Essay 1: Trusts
Separate the charitable Farm Trust from the private Ancestry Trust.
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2025 California Bar Exam
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Fifteen original essay responses and three performance-test examples, covering July, February, and the February retest. Read the actual questions, numbered pointers, and issue outlines directly in your browser.
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The July section uses the State Bar’s corrected Essay 4 and PT packet. Each administration remains separate so question numbers, facts, and source pages stay clear.
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July 2025
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July 2025
Essay 2: Torts
Apply duty, breach, and causation separately to Ollie and Barry and to each injury.
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Essay 3: Business Associations
Use a timeline: partnership contract, incorporation, corporate contracts, employee tort.
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Essay 4: Constitutional Law
Separate the four constitutional provisions and establish standing for each theory.
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Essay 5: Professional Responsibility & Criminal Procedure
Separate the client’s plea decision from counsel’s litigation tactics.
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Performance Test: Tate v. Tate
Write the requested client letter using the supplied Columbia authorities.
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February 2025
Essay 1: Criminal Procedure
Separate Miranda custody from a lawful Fourth Amendment detention or arrest.
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Essay 2: Wills & Charitable Trusts
Analyze the increased gift’s execution before applying dependent relative revocation.
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Essay 3: Real Property
Put deed and mortgage recording on a timeline.
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Essay 4: Contracts
Analyze oral formation, the one-year rule, and the later payroll writing separately.
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Essay 5: Professional Responsibility
Identify the client despite third-party payment.
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Performance Test: Jamison v. Sunrise Ladder
Deliver a client letter answering sanctions and the independent tort separately.
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February 2025 Retest
Essay 1: California Evidence
Keep spousal testimony and confidential marital communications privileges separate.
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Essay 2: Community Property
Classify and trace each asset before considering title or commingling.
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Essay 3: Constitutional Law
Separate discriminatory hiring, speech retaliation, and procedural due process.
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Essay 4: Professional Responsibility
Distinguish an initially reasonable inquiry from knowingly pursuing a baseless claim.
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Essay 5: Remedies
Analyze whether consent covers the actual ten-foot encroachment.
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Performance Test: Dawes Family Partnership
Write an objective office memorandum for use before mediation.
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