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Beirut Bar Admission Test study plan

Beirut Bar Admission Test · Give each week a clear focus.

8 weeks · About 7 hours per week

Week 1

Civil Law (including obligations, contracts, property)

  • Map the Civil Code's structure for obligations and contracts and build a one-page outline linking sources of obligation, formation, effects, and extinction.

  • Draft written answers to three hypotheticals on consent defects (error, fraud, duress) and distinguish nullity from rescission in each.

  • Solve four problems on the effect of contracts (binding force, good faith performance, privity) and state the governing article logic in your own words.

  • Build a flashcard set of 25 terms on civil law obligations with a worked example for each.

Your checkpoint

A 6-page typed obligations and contracts outline plus 3 corrected practice answers scored against a self-made rubric.

Week 2

Civil Law (including obligations, contracts, property)

  • Distinguish the regimes of contract and tort liability and classify ten short fact patterns into the correct regime.

  • Analyze the rules on damages, causation, and foreseeability by answering two essay questions under time limits.

  • Compare the principal real rights (ownership, usufruct, servitude, mortgage) in a comparative table with their creation and extinction rules.

  • Answer five multiple-choice sets on property and security, logging each wrong answer with the corrected rule.

Your checkpoint

A comparative table of real rights plus a 10-item error log of missed property questions with corrective notes.

Week 3

Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure

  • Outline the general theory of offence: legal element, actus reus, mens rea, and the grounds excluding criminal responsibility.

  • Classify ten offences against persons and property by their elements and applicable penalties.

  • Trace the stages of criminal procedure from complaint through investigation, indictment, trial, and appeal in a flowchart.

  • Draft a one-page argument on a procedural defect (nullity of an investigative act) with the legal basis cited.

Your checkpoint

A one-page procedural flowchart plus a timed 45-minute essay on criminal responsibility with grounds for exemption.

Week 4

Civil Procedure and Evidence & Commercial Law (including company law and insolvency)

  • Draft a statement of claim and a statement of defence for a simple contract dispute, respecting jurisdiction, capacity, and formal requirements.

  • List the rules on evidence (burden of proof, admissible means, expert reports) and apply them to three evidentiary scenarios.

  • Diagram the lifecycle of a commercial company from incorporation to dissolution, noting shareholder and manager liability.

  • Summarize the insolvency framework: triggers, declaration, effects on creditors, and ranking of claims.

Your checkpoint

A complete pleading packet (claim plus defence) and a one-page insolvency ranking chart.

Week 5

Commercial Law (including company law and insolvency) & Labor and Social Security Law

  • Solve three company-law problems on manager liability, shareholder disputes, and validity of corporate decisions.

  • Draft a termination-of-employment analysis identifying lawful grounds, notice, and indemnities.

  • Explain social security contributions, benefits, and dispute resolution in a one-page summary.

  • Answer a mixed 30-question set on commercial and labor law and record every error with its rule.

Your checkpoint

A 30-question error log with corrected rules plus a model employment-termination memo.

Week 6

Constitutional and Administrative Law & Family and Personal Status Law

  • Outline constitutional review, separation of powers, and the hierarchy of norms, then apply them to two administrative-act scenarios.

  • Draft an administrative appeal argument challenging an unlawful decision on grounds of competence, form, and motive.

  • Summarize personal status rules on marriage, divorce, custody, and inheritance across the applicable confessional regimes.

  • Answer two family-law hypotheticals on custody and succession shares, showing the calculation.

Your checkpoint

A one-page administrative appeal argument plus two solved family-law hypotheticals with share calculations.

Week 7

Real Property and Landlord-Tenant Law & Legal Ethics and Professional Conduct & Legal Writing and Oral Advocacy

  • Outline landlord-tenant rules on lease formation, rent revision, eviction, and renewal, then apply them to two disputes.

  • Draft a professional-conduct memo on conflicts of interest, confidentiality, and fees, citing the applicable ethics rules.

  • Write a persuasive closing argument of 500 words on a given fact pattern and record a 5-minute oral delivery.

  • Self-review the recording against a checklist for structure, clarity, and use of authority.

Your checkpoint

A 500-word closing argument, a recorded 5-minute oral delivery, and a completed self-assessment checklist.

Week 8

Civil Law (including obligations, contracts, property) & Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure & Civil Procedure and Evidence

  • Take two full-length timed mock exams under exam conditions and score them against a marking guide.

  • Re-teach the ten weakest rules from the mock exams by writing a short explanation and a new example for each.

  • Consolidate all domain outlines into a single final revision sheet of no more than 12 pages.

  • Rehearse oral answers to five likely examiner questions on procedure and evidence.

Your checkpoint

Two scored mock exams, a 10-rule remediation log, and a 12-page consolidated revision sheet.

Milestones

Week 2: Can state the elements of contract formation, the nullity/rescission distinction, and the main real rights without notes, and score at least 70% on a self-made 20-question civil law set.

Week 4: Can produce a complete statement of claim and defence in 60 minutes and explain insolvency claim ranking from memory.

Week 6: Can outline constitutional review and administrative appeal grounds in 10 minutes and solve a custody and succession hypothetical with correct shares.

Week 8: Score at least 65% on both full mock exams, with no domain below 50%, and deliver a 5-minute oral argument without reading from a script.