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AR Bar · Give each week a clear focus.

8 weeks · About 8 hours per week

Week 1

Civil Procedure & Arkansas-Specific Law and Procedure

  • Outline Arkansas civil procedure rules on pleadings, service, and venue from the state rules, mapping each to its federal counterpart

  • Draft a one-page comparison chart of Arkansas vs. federal deadlines for motions and discovery responses

  • Work 30 civil procedure multiple-choice questions and log every missed rule with a one-line correction

  • Recite the elements of personal jurisdiction and subject-matter jurisdiction from memory in writing

Your checkpoint

Completed Arkansas-vs-federal civil procedure comparison chart plus a 30-question error log

Week 2

Civil Procedure & Arkansas-Specific Law and Procedure

  • Write a timed 30-minute essay answer on a civil procedure issue involving joinder or preclusion

  • Summarize Arkansas appellate deadlines and the preservation rules for post-trial motions

  • Drill 25 questions on discovery, summary judgment, and claim preclusion

  • Self-grade the essay against a checklist of required elements and rewrite the weakest paragraph

Your checkpoint

One graded timed essay with a rewritten weakest paragraph

Week 3

Constitutional Law & Arkansas-Specific Law and Procedure

  • Outline levels of scrutiny and identify the trigger for each in a single reference sheet

  • Analyze Arkansas constitutional provisions on search, seizure, and individual rights alongside the federal Bill of Rights

  • Answer 30 constitutional law questions and categorize misses by doctrine

  • Write a timed 25-minute essay on due process or equal protection

Your checkpoint

Scrutiny reference sheet plus a categorized 30-question constitutional error log

Week 4

Contracts & Torts

  • Build a formation-and-defenses checklist for contracts covering offer, acceptance, consideration, and Statute of Frauds

  • Outline the elements of negligence, intentional torts, and strict liability in a single comparative table

  • Work 40 mixed contracts and torts questions, tagging each by doctrinal category

  • Draft a timed 30-minute torts essay on causation and damages

Your checkpoint

Contracts formation checklist and torts elements table, both complete and self-tested

Week 5

Criminal Law and Procedure & Evidence

  • Map Fourth Amendment search-and-seizure rules and their Arkansas analogs into one outline

  • List every hearsay exclusion and exception with a one-line trigger for each

  • Answer 40 mixed criminal procedure and evidence questions

  • Explain in writing the difference between relevance, character evidence, and impeachment

Your checkpoint

Hearsay exception trigger list and a 40-question combined error log

Week 6

Real Property & Business Associations

  • Outline estates in land, recording acts, and landlord-tenant duties with Arkansas recording statute specifics

  • Diagram the agency, partnership, and LLC liability rules in a one-page flowchart

  • Answer 30 real property and business associations questions

  • Write a timed 25-minute essay on a recording-act priority dispute

Your checkpoint

Recording-act priority flowchart plus one graded property essay

Week 7

Family Law & Trusts and Estates

  • Outline Arkansas grounds for divorce, property division, and child custody standards

  • Build a wills-and-trusts chart covering intestacy, will formalities, and trust creation

  • Answer 30 family law and trusts/estates questions with a focus on Arkansas-specific rules

  • Draft a timed 25-minute essay on will validity or trust administration

Your checkpoint

Arkansas family law and wills/trusts outline with a graded essay attached

Week 8

Arkansas-Specific Law and Procedure & Legal Writing and Multistate Performance Test

  • Complete two full-length timed MPT simulations and self-grade against the rubric

  • Review every error log from weeks 1-7 and rewrite each missed rule as a flashcard

  • Take a timed 100-question mixed practice set spanning all domains

  • Rehearse Arkansas-specific rules by writing them out from memory without notes

Your checkpoint

Two graded MPT simulations plus a consolidated flashcard deck covering all logged errors

Milestones

Week 2: Score at least 65% on a 30-question civil procedure set and submit one graded essay

Week 4: Complete contracts and torts outlines and score at least 65% on a 40-question mixed set

Week 6: Complete all doctrine outlines for domains 1-8 and score at least 70% on a 50-question cumulative set

Week 8: Score at least 70% on the 100-question mixed set and earn a passing self-grade on both MPT simulations