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Mongolian Bar Exam study plan

Mongolian Bar Exam · Give each week a clear focus.

8 weeks · About 7 hours per week

Week 1

Civil Law and Civil Procedure & Commercial, Corporate and Contract Law

  • Outline the Civil Code's general part, obligations, and contract formation rules into a one-page-per-topic summary using the current Civil Code structure.

  • Solve 20 timed multiple-choice questions on contract validity, performance, and breach, then log every wrong answer with the statutory article that governs it.

  • Build a comparison table distinguishing contract annulment, rescission, and invalidity under Mongolian civil law.

  • Draft a 400-word civil claim (claim petition) for a sale-of-goods payment dispute, citing the correct procedural articles.

Your checkpoint

A 10-page civil and contract law summary plus one complete draft civil claim petition with cited articles.

Week 2

Civil Law and Civil Procedure & Commercial, Corporate and Contract Law

  • Map the Civil Procedure Code timeline from filing through first-instance judgment, appeal, and cassation, listing every deadline in days.

  • Practice 2 timed essay answers on civil procedure (jurisdiction and admissibility; evidence and burden of proof) in 45 minutes each.

  • Draft a statement of defence and a request for interim attachment (seizure) for a hypothetical debt case.

  • Self-grade essays against a checklist of issue-spotting, article citation, and structure, and rewrite the weakest section.

Your checkpoint

A civil procedure deadline chart plus two graded essay answers and a defence draft.

Week 3

Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure

  • Outline the Criminal Code's general part: guilt, intent and negligence, complicity, attempt, and sentencing rules.

  • Summarize the specific-part offences most tested (theft, fraud, robbery, official misconduct, traffic offences) with their elements in a table.

  • Solve 25 timed multiple-choice criminal law questions and correct each error against the statute.

  • Draft a 500-word indictment-style reasoning section applying elements to a hypothetical fact pattern.

Your checkpoint

An offence-elements table covering at least 12 crimes plus 25 scored practice questions.

Week 4

Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure

  • Chart the Criminal Procedure Code stages from arrest and detention through investigation, prosecution, trial, and appeal, with every statutory time limit.

  • Analyse the rights of suspects, accused persons, and victims, and explain exclusion of unlawfully obtained evidence in a written answer.

  • Write one full timed mock essay on a procedural-timeline problem and one on evidentiary admissibility, 45 minutes each.

  • Review all errors from weeks 1-4 and produce a single consolidated error log.

Your checkpoint

A criminal procedure timeline chart, two graded essays, and a consolidated error log from the first four weeks.

Week 5

Constitutional Law & Administrative Law and Administrative Procedure

  • Outline the Constitution's chapters on fundamental rights, the structure of state power, and the Constitutional Court's jurisdiction and referral procedure.

  • Build a table of administrative acts, their legal effect, and the grounds for challenging each under the Administrative Procedure Law.

  • Solve 30 timed mixed questions across constitutional and administrative law and record the article for every answer.

  • Draft one administrative complaint (appeal against an administrative decision) with correct deadlines and authority named.

Your checkpoint

A constitutional and administrative law summary plus one complete administrative complaint draft and 30 scored questions.

Week 6

Labour and Social Security Law & Family and Inheritance Law & Land, Environmental and Natural Resources Law

  • Summarize the Labour Law's rules on employment contracts, working time, termination, and severance, plus social insurance contribution obligations.

  • Outline Family Law rules on marriage, marital property, divorce, and child custody, and Inheritance Law rules on intestate succession shares and wills.

  • Summarize Land Law categories, land-use rights, and Environmental Law liability and permitting requirements in a one-page outline each.

  • Solve 30 timed questions across these three domains and correct every error.

Your checkpoint

Three one-page outlines (labour, family and inheritance, land and environment) plus 30 scored questions with corrections.

Week 7

Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility of Advocates & Legal Writing, Drafting and Advocacy Practice

  • Outline advocate licensing, duties to clients and courts, confidentiality, conflicts of interest, and disciplinary liability into a checklist.

  • Write two ethics scenario answers identifying the breach and the applicable disciplinary consequence.

  • Draft a legal memorandum and a short oral argument script on a single fact pattern, applying IRAC structure explicitly.

  • Deliver a 10-minute recorded oral argument and self-assess against a clarity, structure, and citation rubric.

Your checkpoint

An ethics checklist, two graded scenario answers, and one legal memorandum with a recorded oral argument.

Week 8

Civil Law and Civil Procedure & Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure & Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility of Advocates

  • Complete two full-length timed mock exams under exam conditions and score them strictly.

  • Re-drill only the weakest 40 items from the consolidated error log until each is answered correctly twice.

  • Memorize the 20 most frequently cited articles across civil, criminal, and ethics law and recite them from memory.

  • Finalize a one-page pre-exam sheet of deadlines, limitation periods, and citation formats.

Your checkpoint

Two scored mock exams, a cleared weak-item list, and a one-page pre-exam reference sheet.

Milestones

Week 2: Can draft a complete civil claim petition with correct jurisdiction and limitation periods, and score at least 70% on a 20-question civil law set.

Week 4: Can reproduce the criminal procedure timeline from arrest to appeal with all statutory time limits from memory, and score at least 70% on a 25-question criminal law set.

Week 6: Can state the termination and severance rules, intestate succession shares, and land-use categories without notes, and score at least 75% on 30 mixed questions.

Week 8: Score at least 65% on both full-length mock exams and answer every item on the weak-item list correctly twice.