Guam Bar study plan

Map the Guam judicial structure (Superior Court of Guam, Supreme Court of Guam, District Court of Guam, Ninth Circuit and U.S. Supreme Court review paths) and the jurisdiction-specific rules that govern local practice

Outline the Guam Rules of Civil Procedure and Guam Rules of Evidence by article, noting where they diverge from the federal rules the examiners most often test

Draft a one-page checklist of Guam-only procedural traps (local filing deadlines, Superior Court practice conventions, appellate preservation requirements) that you will re-read weekly

Complete one timed 90-minute MPT-style task (persuasive brief or objective memo) and score it against the MPT point sheet before writing any other practice essay

Diagram the full civil-procedure timeline from pleading through judgment, marking the deadline that attaches to each step under the Guam rules

Build a personal flowchart for personal jurisdiction, subject-matter jurisdiction, venue, and removal/remand that you can reproduce from memory in under five minutes

Write a one-page evidence matrix pairing each major hearsay exclusion and exception with a fact pattern that triggers it

Answer 40 mixed civil-procedure and evidence questions under timed conditions and log every miss by rule number

Draft two full civil-procedure essays under 30-minute timing, one on joinder/claim preclusion and one on discovery or summary judgment

Draft one evidence essay on a hearsay-within-hearsay or confrontation problem and self-grade against a model answer structure

Recite from memory the elements of claim preclusion, issue preclusion, and the Erie-equivalent analysis as applied in Guam courts

Convert each logged miss from week 2 into a flashcard or one-sentence rule statement and drill them twice

Outline contract formation, defenses, and remedies into a single decision tree covering offer, acceptance, consideration, statute of frauds, and third-party rights

Outline real-property estates, future interests, co-tenancy, and landlord-tenant into a parallel decision tree

Work through at least 20 practice questions on contract remedies and 20 on recording acts and adverse possession, tracking accuracy by subtopic

Write a half-day timed MPT task involving a contract or property record and self-score it

Draft two timed contracts essays, one on UCC Article 2 gap-fillers and one on anticipatory repudiation or impracticability

Draft two timed real-property essays, one on mortgages/foreclosure priority and one on easements or covenants

Memorize the rule statements for the five most-tested property doctrines and recite them aloud without notes

Re-drill every flashcard from weeks 1 through 4 and retire the ones you now answer instantly

Outline criminal law (elements, mens rea, inchoate crimes, homicide, defenses) and criminal procedure (arrest, search, interrogation, identification, trial rights) into two decision trees

Outline torts (intentional torts, negligence including duty and causation, strict liability, products liability, defamation and privacy) into a third decision tree

Answer 50 mixed criminal-law, criminal-procedure, and torts questions under timed conditions and log misses by doctrine

Write one timed MPT task in a criminal or torts setting and self-score it against the point sheet

Outline constitutional law (judicial review, federalism, due process, equal protection, First Amendment, and the incorporation framework as it reaches territorial courts) into a decision tree

Analyze how territorial status and the Insular Cases line of reasoning affect the application of constitutional guarantees in Guam, and write a short memo explaining the doctrine in your own words

Review Guam statutory and regulatory materials on local government organization, land ownership limits, and other locally tested topics, and summarize each in bullet form

Draft two timed constitutional-law essays and one Guam-law essay under exam conditions

Complete two full simulated exam days mixing all nine domains under strict timing, including at least two MPT tasks

Score every essay and MPT against point sheets and compute an accuracy percentage per domain

Re-teach your three weakest domains by writing a one-page plain-language explanation of each from memory

Assemble a final one-page pre-exam sheet limited to rules you have missed more than once