NextGen Bar study plan

Chart the intestate distribution rules for a surviving spouse, descendants, and collateral heirs, then reproduce the chart from a blank page without notes.

Write and memorize rule statements for personal jurisdiction, venue, and the Erie doctrine, and stress-test each against five short hypotheticals.

Build a pleading-and-joinder checklist covering Rule 12 motions, amendment, permissive versus compulsory counterclaims, and supplemental jurisdiction.

Answer 40 mixed Trusts & Estates and Civil Procedure questions and log every miss by subtopic in an error journal.

Sort 50 statements into hearsay, non-hearsay, and admissible-for-impeachment categories, then justify each classification in one sentence.

Draft rule statements for the confrontation right, present sense impression, excited utterance, and business records, and apply each to a fresh fact pattern.

Rank every level of scrutiny and match it to the corresponding suspect class, fundamental right, or quasi-suspect classification without consulting notes.

Answer 40 mixed Evidence and Constitutional Law questions, targeting above 65% on the first pass.

Contrast common-law and UCC Article 2 formation rules, including the mirror-image rule, the UCC 2-207 battle of the forms, and the Statute of Frauds writing requirements.

Drill future interests by classifying 30 granted interests and applying the Rule Against Perpetuities to each.

Diagram the recording-act rules (race, notice, race-notice) and resolve five priority disputes among competing purchasers and lienholders.

Answer 40 mixed Contracts and Real Property questions and re-read every explanation for a question you got wrong.

Map the duty categories in negligence (invitee, licensee, trespasser, foreseeable plaintiff) and apply them to six short scenarios.

Order the mens rea ladder for homicide and match each rung to its common-law and Model Penal Code formulation.

Distinguish attempt, conspiracy, and solicitation, and state the point at which each becomes punishable.

Complete a 50-question mixed diagnostic spanning all eleven domains and tag every miss by domain and subtopic.

Construct a decision table comparing agency, general partnership, limited partnership, LLC, and corporation on formation, owner liability, taxation, and management.

State the fiduciary duties of care and loyalty in corporate governance and apply the business judgment rule to four director-conflict scenarios.

Outline the standards for property division, spousal support, and the best-interests-of-the-child custody analysis and apply them to two fact patterns.

Answer 35 mixed Business Associations and Family Law questions, aiming for 65% or better on the first attempt.

Establish domicile in six fact patterns and explain how it controls personal jurisdiction, choice of law, and tax consequences.

Compare vested-rights, most-significant-relationship, and governmental-interest approaches and apply each to the same tort and contract fact pattern.

State the constitutional limits on choice of law under Due Process and Full Faith and Credit, including the recognition-of-judgments rules.

Re-answer every question missed in weeks 1 through 5 and rewrite the underlying rule for each one.

Complete 100 mixed practice questions weighted toward the highest-yield domains and record accuracy by domain in a spreadsheet.

Drill your three weakest subtopics from the week 4 error log until each reaches 80% accuracy on a 15-question batch.

Complete two performance-test-style drafting tasks under a 45-minute clock each and self-grade against a written checklist.

Condense your notes into a two-page 'last look' sheet limited to the 30 rules you miss most often.

Sit two full-length simulated exams under strict timing and log the score and pacing for each section.

Review the last-look sheet at the start of each study session until you can recite all 30 rules without prompting.

Re-work only the questions missed in week 7 and confirm each is now answerable with a stated reason.

Finalize a per-section time-allocation and guess-elimination strategy and rehearse it on one timed section.