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Writing & Practice Guides
Browse 50 focused writing and study guides, 14 subject practice guides, and three California rule comparisons. Choose a topic or search for the skill you want to improve.
A useful first practice session
Essay writing 12 guides
- A Focused Issue-Spotting Drill for Bar Exam Essays
A Focused Issue-Spotting Drill for Bar Exam Essays. Worked example, practical exercise, and checklist for your next bar exam practice session.
- Bar Exam Essay Time Management: Finish the Whole Answer
Bar Exam Essay Time Management. Worked example, practical exercise, and checklist for your next bar exam practice session.
- How Long Should a Bar Exam Essay Answer Be?
How Long Should a Bar Exam Essay Answer Be. Worked example, practical exercise, and checklist for your next bar exam practice session.
- How to Fix Conclusory Analysis in a Bar Exam Essay
How to Fix Conclusory Analysis in a Bar Exam Essay. Worked example, practical exercise, and checklist for your next bar exam practice session.
- How to Outline a Bar Exam Essay Before You Write
How to Outline a Bar Exam Essay Before You Write. Worked example, practical exercise, and checklist for your next bar exam practice session.
- How to Write Useful Rule Statements on Bar Exam Essays
Writing Bar Exam Essay Rule Statements. Worked example, practical exercise, and checklist for your next bar exam practice session.
- IRAC for Bar Exam Essays: A Paragraph-Level Method
IRAC for Bar Exam Essays: A Paragraph-Level Method. Worked example, practical exercise, and checklist for your next bar exam practice session.
- Organizing Crossover Bar Exam Essay Questions
Organizing Crossover Bar Exam Essay Questions. Worked example, practical exercise, and checklist for your next bar exam practice session.
- Using Facts Effectively in Bar Exam Essay Analysis
Using Facts Effectively in Bar Exam Essay Analysis. Worked example, practical exercise, and checklist for your next bar exam practice session.
- What to Practice When You Blank on an Essay Rule
What to Practice When You Blank on an Essay Rule. Worked example, practical exercise, and checklist for your next bar exam practice session.
- When and How to Address Counterarguments in Bar Essays
Counterarguments in Bar Exam Essays. Worked example, practical exercise, and checklist for your next bar exam practice session.
- Writing Clear Headings in Bar Exam Essays
Writing Clear Headings in Bar Exam Essays. Worked example, practical exercise, and checklist for your next bar exam practice session.
Performance tests 12 guides
- How to Read a Performance Test Task Memo
How to Read a Performance Test Task Memo. Worked example, practical exercise, and checklist for your next bar exam practice session.
- How to Read the Library in a Bar Exam Performance Test
How to Read a Performance Test Library. Worked example, practical exercise, and checklist for your next bar exam practice session.
- How to Review a Completed Performance Test
How to Review a Completed Performance Test. Worked example, practical exercise, and checklist for your next bar exam practice session.
- Organizing Performance Test Facts by Issue and Chronology
Organizing Performance Test Facts. Worked example, practical exercise, and checklist for your next bar exam practice session.
- Organizing an Objective Memorandum for a Performance Test
Performance Test Objective Memorandum. Worked example, practical exercise, and checklist for your next bar exam practice session.
- Performance Test Time Management: From Reading to Drafting
Performance Test Time Management. Worked example, practical exercise, and checklist for your next bar exam practice session.
- Practical Citation Habits for Performance Test Answers
Citations in Performance Test Answers. Worked example, practical exercise, and checklist for your next bar exam practice session.
- Reading a Performance Test File Without Losing the Facts
How to Read a Performance Test File. Worked example, practical exercise, and checklist for your next bar exam practice session.
- Rule Synthesis in Performance Tests: Combine the Authorities
Rule Synthesis for Performance Tests. Worked example, practical exercise, and checklist for your next bar exam practice session.
- Using Case Comparisons in Performance Test Answers
Using Case Comparisons in Performance Test Answers. Worked example, practical exercise, and checklist for your next bar exam practice session.
- Writing a Client Letter for a Bar Exam Performance Test
Performance Test Client Letters. Worked example, practical exercise, and checklist for your next bar exam practice session.
- Writing a Persuasive Brief in a Performance Test
Writing a Persuasive Brief in a Performance Test. Worked example, practical exercise, and checklist for your next bar exam practice session.
Subject practice 14 guides
- California Business Associations Essay Practice
Practice 12 Business Associations issue patterns with original scenarios, analysis prompts, revealable worked answers, and changed-fact exercises.
- California Civil Procedure Essay Practice
Practice 12 Civil Procedure issue patterns with original scenarios, analysis prompts, revealable worked answers, and changed-fact exercises.
- California Community Property Essay Practice
Identify the asset, locate its source, and explain why each contribution matters. Practice eight recurring issue patterns with original hypotheticals.
- California Constitutional Law Essay Practice
Practice 12 Constitutional Law issue patterns with original scenarios, analysis prompts, revealable worked answers, and changed-fact exercises.
- California Contracts Essay Practice
Work through fifteen contract issue patterns with common-law and UCC distinctions, fill-in analysis, worked answers, and changed-fact writing exercises.
- California Criminal Law Essay Practice
Practice 14 Criminal Law issue patterns with original scenarios, analysis prompts, revealable worked answers, and changed-fact exercises.
- California Criminal Procedure Essay Practice
Practice 14 Criminal Procedure issue patterns with original scenarios, analysis prompts, revealable worked answers, and changed-fact exercises.
- California Evidence Essay Practice
Practice ten Evidence issue patterns with federal and California distinctions, fill-in analysis, revealable worked answers, and changed-fact exercises.
- California Professional Responsibility Essay Practice
Practice twelve ethics issue patterns. Identify the duty, select the governing California or ABA rule, and explain the effect of the supplied facts.
- California Real Property Essay Practice
Practice 12 Real Property issue patterns with original scenarios, analysis prompts, revealable worked answers, and changed-fact exercises.
- California Remedies Essay Practice
Match the requested relief to the injury. Explain the dollar measure, why money falls short, and which facts support an equitable order.
- California Torts Essay Practice
Practice 12 Torts issue patterns with original scenarios, analysis prompts, revealable worked answers, and changed-fact exercises.
- California Trusts Essay Practice
Connect the settlor’s words, identified assets, beneficiary interests, and trustee conduct to each trust issue.
- California Wills Essay Practice
Work through execution, capacity, revocation, and distribution using the document’s words and the family timeline.
California rule comparisons 3 guides
- California vs. ABA Professional Responsibility Rules
Compare California and ABA rules on confidentiality, conflicts, and fee divisions. Practice with original ethics scenarios, explained answers, and a printable checklist.
- California vs. Federal Civil Procedure for Bar Essays
Study California and federal differences in responsive pleadings, interrogatories, and summary judgment with comparison tables, exercises, and a printable checklist.
- California vs. Federal Evidence for Bar Essays
Compare California and federal hearsay and impeachment rules with a rule chart, original practice exercises, explained answers, and a printable checklist.
Study planning 10 guides
- A Weekend Bar Prep Plan That Includes Review
A Weekend Bar Prep Plan That Includes Review. Worked example, practical exercise, and checklist for your next bar exam practice session.
- Active Recall for Bar Prep: Turn Rules Into Usable Knowledge
Active Recall for Bar Exam Preparation. Worked example, practical exercise, and checklist for your next bar exam practice session.
- Bar Exam Study After Work: Build an Evening Routine
Bar Exam Study After Work: Build an Evening Routine. Worked example, practical exercise, and checklist for your next bar exam practice session.
- Build a Bar Exam Error Log You Will Actually Use
Build a Bar Exam Error Log You Will Actually Use. Worked example, practical exercise, and checklist for your next bar exam practice session.
- Final-Week Bar Prep: Review Your Writing Habits
Final-Week Bar Prep: Review Your Writing Habits. Worked example, practical exercise, and checklist for your next bar exam practice session.
- How to Adjust a Bar Prep Plan When You Fall Behind
How to Adjust a Bar Prep Plan When You Fall Behind. Worked example, practical exercise, and checklist for your next bar exam practice session.
- How to Use a Two-Hour Bar Prep Study Block
How to Use a Two-Hour Bar Prep Study Block. Worked example, practical exercise, and checklist for your next bar exam practice session.
- Moving From Open-Book Practice to Timed Bar Exam Writing
From Open-Book to Timed Bar Exam Writing. Worked example, practical exercise, and checklist for your next bar exam practice session.
- Track Bar Prep Progress Beyond Hours and Completion Percentages
How to Track Your Bar Prep Progress. Worked example, practical exercise, and checklist for your next bar exam practice session.
- When to Use Mixed-Subject Bar Exam Practice
When to Use Mixed-Subject Bar Exam Practice. Worked example, practical exercise, and checklist for your next bar exam practice session.
Feedback & improvement 10 guides
- A Focused Method for Rewriting a Graded Bar Exam Essay
How to Rewrite a Graded Bar Exam Essay. Worked example, practical exercise, and checklist for your next bar exam practice session.
- A Self-Review Checklist for Bar Exam Essays
A Self-Review Checklist for Bar Exam Essays. Worked example, practical exercise, and checklist for your next bar exam practice session.
- Fixing Organization Problems Identified by a Bar Exam Grader
Fixing Essay Organization After Feedback. Worked example, practical exercise, and checklist for your next bar exam practice session.
- How to Compare Your Essay With a Selected Answer
How to Compare Your Essay With a Selected Answer. Worked example, practical exercise, and checklist for your next bar exam practice session.
- How to Turn Bar Exam Grader Feedback Into a Practice Plan
How to Use Bar Exam Grader Feedback. Worked example, practical exercise, and checklist for your next bar exam practice session.
- Questions to Bring to a Bar Exam Tutoring Session
Questions to Bring to a Bar Exam Tutoring Session. Worked example, practical exercise, and checklist for your next bar exam practice session.
- What to Do When Grader Feedback Identifies Missing Issues
Fixing Missing Issues in Bar Exam Essays. Worked example, practical exercise, and checklist for your next bar exam practice session.
- What to Review Before Your Next Graded Essay or PT Submission
Before Your Next Graded Essay or PT. Worked example, practical exercise, and checklist for your next bar exam practice session.
- What to Review When Practice Essay Scores Plateau
What to Review When Practice Essay Scores Plateau. Worked example, practical exercise, and checklist for your next bar exam practice session.
- What ‘More Analysis’ Means in Bar Exam Essay Feedback
What “More Analysis” Feedback Means. Worked example, practical exercise, and checklist for your next bar exam practice session.
Study materials & supplements 6 guides
- Adding Essay Feedback to an Existing Bar Review Course
Adding Essay Feedback to Your Bar Review. Worked example, practical exercise, and checklist for your next bar exam practice session.
- How to Choose Bar Prep Supplements Without Duplicating Resources
How to Choose Bar Prep Supplements. Worked example, practical exercise, and checklist for your next bar exam practice session.
- Using Critical Pass Flashcards With Bar Exam Essay Practice
Critical Pass Flashcards & Essay Practice. Worked example, practical exercise, and checklist for your next bar exam practice session.
- Using Free California Bar Exam Questions and Selected Answers
Free California Bar Exam Practice Resources. Worked example, practical exercise, and checklist for your next bar exam practice session.
- Using SmartBarPrep Outlines Alongside Written Bar Practice
SmartBarPrep Outlines & Writing Practice. Worked example, practical exercise, and checklist for your next bar exam practice session.
- Using UWorld MBE Practice Alongside Essay and PT Writing
Using UWorld MBE With Essay Practice. Worked example, practical exercise, and checklist for your next bar exam practice session.