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KY Bar · Give each week a clear focus.

8 weeks · About 7 hours per week

Week 1

Contracts & Business Associations

  • Map the Contracts outline into formation, performance/breach, and remedies, writing a one-page rule skeleton for each from memory before checking notes

  • Drill the UCC Article 2 versus common-law distinction by classifying 25 short fact patterns and recording the governing law for each

  • Build a Business Associations entity chart comparing agency, general partnership, LP, LLC, and corporation on formation, liability, management, and dissolution

  • Draft rule statements for agency creation, actual versus apparent authority, and respondeat superior from memory, then correct against your outline

  • Solve 15 Contracts multiple-choice questions timed at 1.8 minutes each and log every miss by doctrinal cause

Your checkpoint

A 10-page handwritten or typed Contracts and Business Associations rule skeleton with a completed entity comparison chart and a scored 15-question Contracts set with error log

Week 2

Business Associations & Real Property

  • Write from memory the steps for forming a corporation and a partnership, including filing, capital contribution, and default statutory rules

  • Explain partner fiduciary duties, dissociation, and dissolution by briefing three short hypotheticals without looking at answers first

  • Construct a Real Property estates chart covering fee simple, life estate, future interests, and landlord-tenant obligations

  • Apply the rule against perpetuities to 10 fact patterns and mark which interests are void and why

  • Answer 20 mixed Business Associations and Real Property questions under timed conditions and categorize each error

Your checkpoint

A completed Real Property estates and future interests chart plus a timed 20-question mixed set with a written error log

Week 3

Civil Procedure & Criminal Law and Procedure

  • Diagram the Civil Procedure timeline from pleadings through appeal, labeling each deadline trigger and the applicable rule number

  • Draft from memory the standard for a 12(b)(6) motion, summary judgment, and a motion to amend, citing the governing rule for each

  • Outline Criminal Law mens rea categories and the elements of the major inchoate and homicide offenses

  • Write the Fourth Amendment search framework, distinguishing warrant, warrantless, and automobile exceptions

  • Complete 25 timed Civil Procedure and Criminal Law questions and rewrite the rule for every missed question in one sentence

Your checkpoint

A one-page Civil Procedure flow diagram plus a one-page Fourth Amendment framework, each reproduced from memory and corrected, with a 25-question error log

Week 4

Constitutional Law & Evidence

  • Write the tiers of scrutiny from memory and match each to the correct type of classification and fundamental right

  • Draft rule statements for standing, ripeness, mootness, and political question doctrine

  • Build an Evidence hearsay chart separating non-hearsay, exemptions, and exclusions with one example per category

  • Explain the confrontation clause and its relationship to testimonial hearsay in a short written paragraph

  • Take a timed 30-question midterm mixing all domains covered so far and score it

Your checkpoint

A scored 30-question cumulative midterm with a one-page hearsay chart and a written list of the three weakest doctrines

Week 5

Torts & Conflict of Laws

  • Outline the intentional torts, negligence duty standards, and strict liability categories with element-level rule statements

  • Write the comparative negligence versus contributory negligence distinction and the Kentucky treatment you have confirmed from a reliable source

  • Draft the Conflict of Laws framework for domicile, choice of law approaches, and recognition of judgments

  • Apply the Erie doctrine and full faith and credit to five short hypotheticals

  • Answer 20 timed Torts and Conflict of Laws questions and log errors

Your checkpoint

A Torts elements sheet plus a Conflict of Laws framework page and a scored 20-question set with error log

Week 6

Family Law & Trusts and Estates & Kentucky Practice and Procedure

  • Write the Family Law rules for marriage, divorce grounds, property division, and custody standards

  • Outline Trusts and Estates: intestate succession, will formalities, trust creation, and trustee duties

  • Draft the Kentucky Practice and Procedure essentials for jurisdiction, venue, filing deadlines, and appellate steps, using only sources you can verify

  • Complete 20 timed questions across these three domains and flag any item requiring verification

  • Review every flagged item and mark it either resolved or needs-review with a citation

Your checkpoint

A three-domain condensed sheet plus a scored 20-question set with a verification log showing what remains uncertain

Week 7

Business Associations & Civil Procedure & Contracts & Real Property

  • Re-solve every question missed in weeks 1 through 3 without notes and confirm each rule is now recalled correctly

  • Draft full essay answers to two practice prompts, one Contracts and one Real Property, under a 30-minute timer each

  • Self-grade both essays against your rule skeletons and list every missing element

  • Run a 40-question timed set weighted toward the heaviest domains and record the score

Your checkpoint

Two timed self-graded essay answers with element checklists plus a scored 40-question set showing improvement over week 4

Week 8

Constitutional Law & Criminal Law and Procedure & Evidence & Torts

  • Re-solve every missed question from weeks 4 through 6 without notes

  • Draft full essay answers to two practice prompts, one Constitutional Law and one Evidence, under 30-minute timers

  • Complete one full-length timed mixed set covering all 12 domains and score it by domain

  • Write a final one-page list of the five rules you still miss and a plan to review them before the exam

Your checkpoint

Two timed self-graded essays, a full-length scored mixed set with domain breakdown, and a final five-rule review list

Milestones

Week 2: Can write the Contracts formation rules and the Real Property future interests chart from memory with 80 percent or better accuracy against your outline

Week 4: Cumulative midterm score of at least 60 percent, with no single domain below 50 percent

Week 6: All 12 domains have at least a one-page rule skeleton, and every uncertain Kentucky-specific rule is marked needs-review with a source

Week 7: Heaviest-domain timed set score improves at least 10 percentage points over the week 4 midterm

Week 8: Full-length mixed set score of at least 65 percent with the five weakest rules written out for final review