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MS PT Juris study plan

MS PT Juris · Give each week a clear focus.

8 weeks · About 6 hours per week

Week 1

Legal Reasoning and Analytical Skills

  • Build a one-page analytical framework mapping issue-spotting, rule synthesis, application, and conclusion to Mississippi bar-style fact patterns

  • Draft full IRAC outlines for 6 practice hypotheticals drawn across constitutional, contract, and tort fact patterns

  • Diagnose your baseline by completing 30 mixed multiple-choice items untimed and logging every missed rule in a single error log

  • Practice distinguishing holding from dictum using three short judicial opinions you locate yourself

Your checkpoint

A 6-outline IRAC portfolio plus a categorized error log of at least 25 entries tagged by domain and failure type

Week 2

Legal Reasoning and Analytical Skills & Constitutional Law

  • Apply a three-step analytical template to 10 timed multiple-choice sets of 4 questions each

  • Outline the federalism boundary between enumerated federal powers and the state police power

  • Map the tiers of scrutiny to equal protection and due process hypotheticals and justify tier selection in writing

  • Explain the incorporation doctrine and identify which Bill of Rights guarantees apply to Mississippi state actors

Your checkpoint

A scrutiny-tier decision chart with 12 worked hypotheticals showing the chosen tier and the reasoning for each

Week 3

Constitutional Law & Contract Law

  • Analyze speech, press, and assembly problems using forum analysis and the content-neutrality distinction

  • Identify when state action exists for constitutional claims against private conduct

  • Outline formation under the common law mirror image rule and the UCC 2-207 battle of the forms

  • Distinguish express, implied-in-fact, and quasi-contract theories and select the correct theory for given facts

Your checkpoint

A comparative formation chart (common law versus UCC Article 2) plus 10 short answers each resolving a formation dispute in under 150 words

Week 4

Contract Law & Criminal Law and Procedure

  • Apply the Statute of Frauds writing requirement and its exceptions to land, surety, marriage, one-year, and goods transactions

  • Analyze consideration, promissory estoppel, and the preexisting duty rule in modification scenarios

  • Outline the elements of the major inchoate and completed offenses, including mens rea levels and causation

  • Sequence arrest, search, interrogation, and identification procedures against Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Amendment requirements

Your checkpoint

A two-part synthesis memo of 1,200 words resolving one contract problem and one criminal procedure problem end to end

Milestones

Week 4: Score at least 65 percent on a self-assembled 40-question mixed set covering domains 1 through 4, and confirm every missed item has a corrected rule entry in the error log

Week 6: Complete at least 60 timed multiple-choice items across all domains with a rolling accuracy of 70 percent or better, and show that no domain falls below 55 percent

Week 8: Complete one full-length timed simulation, score it, and produce a written remediation list naming the three weakest rule areas with a re-study action for each