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OAGB Bar Final Assessment study plan

OAGB Bar Final Assessment · Give each week a clear focus.

8 weeks · About 7 hours per week

Week 1

Civil Procedure & Constitutional Law

  • Outline Civil Procedure from memory for jurisdiction, venue, and pleadings, then fill gaps against a treatise table of contents

  • Diagram the flow of a federal civil action from filing through pre-trial motions

  • Recite the constitutional standards of review (strict, intermediate, rational basis) and match each to a triggering classification or right

  • Draft 10 original multiple-choice questions on personal and subject-matter jurisdiction and explain why each wrong answer is wrong

Your checkpoint

A one-page jurisdiction/venue decision tree plus a 10-question self-written quiz with answer rationales

Week 2

Civil Procedure & Contracts

  • Outline joinder, discovery scope, and summary judgment standards and self-test each from a blank page

  • Build a contracts formation checklist covering offer, acceptance, consideration, and defenses

  • Compare UCC Article 2 and common-law rules for formation, modification, and the statute of frauds in a side-by-side chart

  • Write two 30-minute essay answers (one procedure, one contracts) under timed conditions

Your checkpoint

A UCC-vs-common-law comparison chart plus two graded timed essays with a self-scored rubric

Week 3

Contracts & Criminal Law and Procedure

  • Outline contract remedies, third-party rights, and conditions/precedent performance

  • Map the elements of major crimes (homicide, theft, assault, attempt, conspiracy) into a single reference sheet

  • Trace the constitutional limits on criminal procedure from arrest through trial

  • Answer 40 mixed contracts and criminal law questions and log every miss by doctrinal category

Your checkpoint

An error log of all missed questions categorized by doctrine, with a corrected rule statement for each

Week 4

Criminal Law and Procedure & Evidence

  • Outline search and seizure, interrogation, and identification procedures, flagging the exclusionary rule's reach

  • Recite the Federal Rules of Evidence structure: relevance, hearsay and its exceptions, character, impeachment

  • Build a hearsay decision flowchart from declarant's out-of-court statement to admissible/non-hearsay outcome

  • Write one timed criminal procedure essay and one evidence essay

Your checkpoint

A hearsay flowchart plus two timed essays scored against a checklist of required rule citations

Week 5

Evidence & Real Property

  • Drill 30 hearsay and confrontation questions and explain each exception applied

  • Outline real property: estates, future interests, concurrent ownership, and landlord-tenant duties

  • Diagram recording acts, priority rules, and the bona fide purchaser analysis

  • Draft 10 original property questions with distractors that test common traps

Your checkpoint

A future-interests and recording-act cheat sheet plus a 10-question self-written property quiz

Week 6

Real Property & Torts

  • Outline torts: negligence elements, duty standards, causation, and comparative fault

  • Map intentional torts and strict liability to their defenses on a single matrix

  • Write two timed torts essays, one negligence and one intentional tort

  • Review all error logs to date and re-answer every missed question

Your checkpoint

A torts elements-and-defenses matrix plus a re-attempt score report showing improvement on prior misses

Week 7

Torts & Legal Writing and Analysis

  • Outline products liability, defamation, privacy, and nuisance with their respective tests

  • Practice the IRAC/CREAC structure on three short hypotheticals, tightening issue statements

  • Revise two earlier essays for organization, rule accuracy, and concision

  • Complete a 50-question mixed-set covering all prior domains

Your checkpoint

Three rewritten IRAC answers with a before/after comparison and a mixed-set accuracy percentage

Week 8

Civil Procedure & Constitutional Law & Contracts & Criminal Law and Procedure & Evidence & Real Property & Torts & Legal Writing and Analysis

  • Take two full-length timed practice exams under exam conditions

  • Re-outline each domain from memory in 15 minutes or less and note gaps

  • Re-drill every item in the error log until each is answered correctly twice

  • Finalize a one-page-per-domain condensed rule sheet for exam-day review

Your checkpoint

Two completed full-length practice exams with scores, plus a finalized 8-page condensed rule sheet

Milestones

Week 2: Score at least 65% on a self-written 20-question set covering Civil Procedure and Contracts, with rationales for every wrong answer

Week 4: Complete two timed essays within the allotted time and hit at least 4 of 5 rubric elements on each

Week 6: Re-answer all logged missed questions and achieve at least 80% correct on the re-attempt

Week 8: Score at least 70% on each full-length practice exam and have a completed condensed rule sheet for all eight domains