ND Bar study plan

Build a one-page joinder, supplemental-jurisdiction, and venue decision tree for MBE Civil Procedure, then answer 25 questions using only that tree.

Complete 60 timed MBE questions split evenly between Civil Procedure and Constitutional Law at 1.8 minutes per question, and log every miss by subtopic.

Recite from memory the three tiers of scrutiny, the state-action test, and the dormant Commerce Clause framework at the start of each study block until no notes are needed.

Rewrite the rule statement behind each missed question onto a personal rule sheet, capping the sheet at two pages so it stays usable.

Diagram the UCC 2-207 battle-of-the-forms sequence, the mailbox rule, and the statute-of-frauds categories for Contracts on a single page, then test each diagram against 10 questions.

Drill the Torts duty standards (reasonable person, children, professionals, land entrants) and write one worked example per standard from memory.

Complete 70 timed MBE questions across Contracts and Torts and re-work every miss the following day without looking at the answer explanation first.

Compare each UCC 2-207 and land-entrant miss against the correct rule in writing, naming the exact step where your reasoning broke.

Write out every FRE 803 and 804 hearsay exception from memory, then fill gaps against the rule text and compress the result into a one-page chart.

Test the hearsay chart against 30 questions covering non-hearsay purposes, impeachment, and confrontation, and annotate each chart entry that failed you.

Complete 70 timed MBE questions across Evidence and Criminal Law/Procedure, including at least 15 on Fourth Amendment searches and 10 on the right to counsel.

Separate the error log into 'never knew the rule' and 'knew the rule, applied it wrong' buckets and count how many rows fall into each.

Master future interests, the recording statute hierarchy, and landlord-tenant obligations for Real Property, producing one worked fact pattern per doctrine.

Complete a timed 100-question half-MBE in two 50-question blocks at exam pace, then review all 100 questions including the ones you got right.

Re-read the entire error log from weeks 1 through 4 and rank the ten subtopics producing the most misses.

Convert the top five weak subtopics into flashcards you can run through in 15 minutes.

Outline the MEE answer format - issue, rule, application, conclusion - and write three essays open-book purely to calibrate structure and length.

Write four closed-book 30-minute essays in Contracts, Torts, Evidence, and Civil Procedure, one per sitting, with no outline in front of you.

Self-score each essay against grading points you derive from the call of the question, and mark every place you spotted an issue but failed to state a rule.

Rewrite the lowest-scoring essay from scratch in 30 minutes and compare the two versions line by line.

Cover the non-MBE MEE subjects - agency, partnership, corporations, LLCs, secured transactions, family law, trusts and estates, and conflicts - by writing a one-page rule skeleton for each from memory.

Write four timed 30-minute essays across those subjects, forcing at least one agency/partnership essay and one secured transactions essay.

Practice the conflicts and family law essays twice each, since those subjects appear least often in your MBE work and decay fastest.

Time-box issue spotting to 5 minutes per essay and record whether you ran out of time on analysis or on rule statement.

Map both MPT task families - objective memo and persuasive brief - and list the file and library materials you must read first for each.

Complete three timed 90-minute MPTs: one objective memo, one persuasive brief, and one client letter, each from a fresh fact pattern.

Self-grade every MPT on three axes - format compliance, accurate use of library authority, and citation of specific file facts - and note which axis is weakest.

Practice triaging a library that contains one irrelevant or outdated authority, and write down the rule for deciding what to discard.

Run one full simulated exam day under real timing: a 200-question MBE plus one MPT, with breaks matching test-day conditions.

Write two MEE essays back-to-back in 60 minutes to rehearse the sustained pace rather than single-essay performance.

Condense all rule sheets into a single day-before page limited to the ten rules you still miss most often.

Rehearse logistics - permitted items, timing checkpoints, and a plan for what to do when an MPT library runs long - and write the plan down.

Stop introducing new material after day five and spend remaining hours only on the error log and rule sheets.