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How PASS the Performance Test will help you PASS the MULTISTATE PERFORMANCE TEST

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Performance Tests serve as the practical portion of the Bar Exam in some thirty United States jurisdictions. (See below for a list of those jurisdictions whose Bar Exams currently include performance testing.) The types of tasks you will face on the MPT are similar to the work you might do as a beginning lawyer in a law firm — drafting legal memoranda, writing briefs to the court, letters to clients, discovery plans, settlement offers and more.

To complete a Performance Test, you will be called upon to:

• Read and analyze a case File and a Library of legal authorities, and

• Draft some document(s) based upon information you glean from those materials.

Whatever the exact tasks you must draft, passing a Performance Test requires that you demonstrate competency in the following skills:

1. sort detailed factual materials and separate relevant from irrelevant facts;

2. analyze statutory, case, and administrative materials for relevant principles of law;

3. apply the relevant law to the relevant facts in a manner likely to resolve a client's problem;

4. identify and resolve ethical dilemmas, when present;

5. communicate effectively in writing;

6. complete a lawyering task within time constraints.

(These six skills are noted here as they appear in the National Conference of Bar Examiner's The MPT 2003 Information Booklet.)

PASS the Performance Test
PASS the Performance Test is a study guide and workbook designed to help students pass the Performance Test portion of the California Bar Exam. Because the MPT was modeled after the California Performance Test, PASS the Performance Test will also help you PASS the MPT!

The only essential difference between the California Bar Exam's Performance Test and the Multistate Performance Test is timing: each California Bar Exam Performance Test is 180 minutes in length and each Multistate Performance Test is 90 minutes.

So, all you have to do is use the timetable conversion chart below to adapt your timing and successfully use the Six Steps to PASSing approach, set forth in full in PASS the Performance Test. Everything else about how to succeed on a California Performance Test and a Multistate Performance Test remains the same. Learn all you need to pass any performance test in PASS the Performance Test.

The Six Step PASSing Plan Timetable Conversion Chart
From California Performance Test ("CPT") to Multistate Performance Test ("MPT")

Learn More about PASS the Performance Test
First published in 2003, PASS the Performance Test is a comprehensive, innovative home study guide and workbook—available for purchase now. Your guide to success! PASS the Performance Test includes detailed instruction on how to master the lawyering skills necessary to pass the performance test portion of your Bar Exam, along with a number of recent practice performance tests and model answers.

PASS the Performance Test was created by Sara Berman-Barrett, Steve Bracci, Bruce Landau and Craig Gold—a team of Los Angeles law professors whose combined expertise have led thousands of students to success on the Bar Exam. Professors Bracci and Berman-Barrett created a number of unique performance test courses, including PLI's multistate performance test course. Berman-Barrett is also the co-author with UCLA Law Professor Paul Bergman of Nolo.com's Represent Yourself in Court: How to Prepare and Try a Winning Case, and The Criminal Law Handbook: Know Your Rights, Survive the System, which together have sold more than 65,000 copies nationwide.

Study PASS the Performance Test on your own, or use PASS the Performance Test as a companion guide to the latest, state of the art on-line performance test review. Join Professor Berman-Barrett as she presents the performance test course materials in a friendly interactive environment, working from actual practice bar exams to develop the skills you need for success. Visit www.passlaw.com to learn more about and enroll in Pass the Performance Test Online, which includes the PASS the Performance Test Study Guide, or buy your copy of PASS the Performance Test Study Guide now from Legal Books Distributing or call Legal Books Distributing at 323-526-7110 (from the Los Angeles area) or 800-200-7110 if calling from outside Los Angeles.

Who has to take the Mulitstate Performance Test ("MPT")
If you live in any one of the states listed below, the MPT is the "practical" component of your Bar Exam.

*California has its own Performance Test—similar to the MPT but double the length.

How do I get more information on the MPT?
Go to the website of the National Conference of Bar Examiners at
ncbex.org

Or contact the National Conference of Bar Examiners at

402 West Wilson Street
Madison, IL 53703-3614
(608) 280-8550