Integrated Question Sets & Performance Tasks NextGen Bar Exam Study Guide
All 45 written items with model answers, grading notes, and rubrics — 51% of the NextGen score.
- 30 complete integrated question sets — scenario, materials, and items in full
- 15 complete performance tasks with File & Library documents
- Model answers, grading notes, and Rules + Application rubrics on separate pages
- 6 method chapters open the book — a repeatable attack for each item type
- 680 pages · print-identical PDF + EPUB (Kindle, Apple Books), both included
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Up to date as of September 2026
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About Skills & Ethics
The 7 foundational skills, the 12 tested MRPC rules, and strategy for integrated sets and performance tasks. NCBE flags 1 of its topics at memorize level; the rest lean on provided materials and reasoning.
Free Skills & Ethics subject page: topics, sample questions, notes previewFrom chapter 1, The 7 Foundational Skills
The old bar exam mostly asked one question wearing a hundred different outfits: do you remember the rule? You could pass largely by memorizing black-letter law and recognizing it on cue. The NextGen exam keeps the law but changes the demand. It asks what a lawyer actually does with the law once a real client walks in the door: spot the issue, sort the facts, size up each side, ask what you still need to find out, counsel the client toward their goal, research inside a closed set of sources, and put it all in writing. Those doing-verbs are the seven Foundational Skills, and they are the spine of the entire exam. Here is the mental shift that unlocks this whole topic: the skills are not a separate subject you study on a Tuesday. They are a lens bolted onto every question. A Contracts question no longer just asks whether there was a breach — it asks you to spot the controlling issue, name the fact that decides it, weigh your client's position, or draft the demand letter. The doctrine (Contracts, Torts, Evidence, and the rest) is the noun; the skill is the verb; every question pairs one of each. Learn the verbs and you stop studying eight separate subjects and start studying one exam.
The 30 integrated question sets
- 1.The Coffee Supply Dispute
- 2.The Website Payment Dispute
- 3.The Aisle Spill
- 4.The Sweltering Storefront
- 5.The Silenced Alarm
- 6.The Campus Speech Zone
- 7.The Roadside Search
- 8.The Prolonged Traffic Stop
- 9.Divided Loyalties
- 10.The Undisclosed Job
- 11.The Premarital Waiver
- 12.The Alvarez Family Trust
- 13.The Men-Only Academy
- 14.The Cedar Lane Closing
- 15.The Cedar Hollow Feud
- 16.Custody Across State Lines
- 17.The Overreaching Agreement
- 18.The Slip in Aisle Six
- 19.The Manager's Blank Check
- 20.The Costly Plea
- 21.The Withdrawing Partner
- 22.The Plaza Vigil
- 23.The Improvident Removal
- 24.The Collapsing Step Stool
- 25.The Pawnshop Killing
- 26.The Birchwood Title Opinion
- 27.The Contested Prenup
- 28.The Voided Will
- 29.The Engagement Agreement
- 30.The Rooftop Burglar
The 15 performance tasks
- 1.The Withdrawn Stall
- 2.The Darkened Garage
- 3.The Alder Lane Title
- 4.The Riverwalk Table
- 5.The Cedar Falls Move
- 6.The Excited Utterance
- 7.The Long Arm
- 8.The Cedar Hollow Will
- 9.The Copperline Clauses
- 10.The Locked Toolbox
- 11.The Off-Spec Shipment
- 12.The Two Fires
- 13.The Widower's Annuity
- 14.The Unrecorded Deed
- 15.Defective by Design
Every set and task appears in full — work them timed and in writing, then grade yourself against the model answers.
Look inside
Rendered from the free sample at print size. The first method chapter is free to download.
The first page of a chapter: study time, difficulty, whether NCBE stars the topic, and what you will be able to explain by the end. 
Rule text, exam tips and warnings about common traps are set out in boxes inside the outline.
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