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Baby Bar study plan

Baby Bar · Give each week a clear focus.

8 weeks · About 6 hours per week

Week 1

Contracts

  • Outline the formation sequence for common law contracts: offer, acceptance, consideration, and the Statute of Frauds

  • Distinguish UCC Article 2 sale-of-goods rules from common law rules and tabulate the differences in a two-column chart

  • Memorize and recite from memory the mailbox rule and the UCC 2-207 battle-of-the-forms analysis

  • Answer 45 practice questions on formation and log every miss with a one-sentence rule correction

Your checkpoint

A one-page formation checklist plus a scored log of 45 attempted questions showing accuracy percentage and a list of missed rules

Week 2

Contracts & Criminal Law

  • Analyze contract defenses: incapacity, duress, undue influence, misrepresentation, mistake, and unconscionability

  • Apply the expectation, reliance, and restitution measures to compute damages in three fact patterns

  • Break the elements of every major crime into a checklist that names the actus reus and mens rea for each

  • Answer 50 practice questions split between contract performance/remedies and basic criminal elements

Your checkpoint

A completed damages worksheet solving three scenarios with figures shown, plus a scored 50-question log

Week 3

Contracts & Criminal Law

  • Work through third-party beneficiary and assignment/delegation rules and state when assignment is barred

  • Identify when a breach is material versus minor and when the perfect tender rule is excused

  • Map the levels of homicide (murder, felony murder, manslaughter) and the intent required at each level

  • Draft a 30-minute timed essay on a contract remedies hypothetical using IRAC headings

Your checkpoint

A graded 30-minute timed essay self-scored against a written rubric, plus a homicide intent chart completed from memory

Week 4

Criminal Law

  • Analyze inchoate offenses, complicity, and the limits of conspiracy liability including the Wharton and merger rules

  • Apply the rules of justification and excuse across self-defense, necessity, duress, and entrapment

  • Distinguish the four common law theft crimes and the point at which each is complete

  • Answer 60 practice questions on criminal law and review every explanation for a missed item

Your checkpoint

A two-page criminal law attack outline organized by element, plus a scored 60-question log at or above 65% accuracy

Week 5

Criminal Law & Torts

  • Distinguish specific intent, general intent, malice, and strict liability crimes and classify ten sample offenses

  • Outline the intentional torts and match each to its available defenses and privileges

  • State the duty, breach, causation, and damages elements of negligence from memory in writing

  • Answer 45 practice questions mixing criminal law with intentional torts

Your checkpoint

A completed offense-classification table for ten offenses plus a scored 45-question mixed log

Week 6

Torts

  • Apply the reasonable person standard, the Cardozo versus Andrews duty approaches, and the major exceptions to duty

  • Analyze actual and proximate cause, including intervening causes and the rescue doctrine

  • Compute comparative and contributory negligence outcomes and apply assumption of risk

  • Write a 30-minute timed essay on a negligence hypothetical under exam conditions

Your checkpoint

A graded 30-minute negligence essay self-scored against a written rubric, with each element labeled in the margin

Week 7

Torts

  • Apply strict liability doctrine to abnormally dangerous activities, wild animals, and defective products

  • Trace each products liability theory (negligence, warranty, strict liability) and the defenses to each

  • Distinguish defamation, invasion of privacy, and the related privileges

  • Answer 60 practice questions on torts and re-read the explanations for every missed item

Your checkpoint

A products liability comparison chart across the three theories, plus a scored 60-question log at or above 65% accuracy

Week 8

Contracts & Criminal Law & Torts

  • Take two full-length timed mixed practice sets and record accuracy by domain

  • Re-drill the 25 most frequently missed rules from weeks 1 through 7

  • Condense each domain into a single page of trigger facts and their corresponding rules

  • Simulate exam-day pacing by completing a 100-question timed block in one sitting

Your checkpoint

A one-page-per-domain trigger-fact sheet (three pages total) plus a domain-by-domain accuracy report from 200 cumulative practice questions

Milestones

Week 4: Score at least 65% on 155 cumulative practice questions, with contract formation and remedies accuracy at or above 70%

Week 6: Complete a timed essay in each of the three domains and self-score each at 4 of 6 rubric points or better

Week 8: Reach 70% or higher overall on a full-length timed mixed set, with no single domain below 65%