California Bar Answers Hyperlinked is a reformatted version of questions and answers derived from actual old exam questions and answers prepared by the State Bar of California. Reprinted with permission of The State Bar of California. No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any medium without prior written permission of The State Bar of California.

This is the Ultimate Book of Law School One-Liners.

222 Essays (July 2001 - February 2020) published by the California Bar are located in one book. The question key words are hyperlinked which makes issue spotting stand out. The click of each key word hyperlink takes you to the rule or elements of passing answers. Hyperlinked key words in the answers further facilitate issue spotting. A hyperlink at the end of each rule or element takes you to the question so you can see how the issue was raised in the question.

Hyperlinks make the issues stand out and will help with Issue Spotting. Rules and Elements are hyperlinked so that a click of the mouse will take the reader to a referenced term, rule, or element. Each Rule and Element Answer is also hyperlinked to the Question that raised the issued.

The California Bar Exam is given in February and July each year. Since 2017, the Exam takes place over a 2 day periiod. One day consists of MBE questions (multiple choice) in both the morning and afternoon sessions. On the other day, the morning session consists of 3 essay questions and the afternoon session consists of 2 essay questions and 1 performance test question.

There are a total of 13 essay subjects tested. Those subjects are: 1. Business Associations, 2. Civil Procedure, 3. Community Property, 4. Constitutional Law, 5. Contracts, 6. Criminal Law and Procedure, 7. Evidence, 8. Professional Responsibility, 9. Real Property, 10. Remedies, 11. Torts, 12. Trusts, 13. Wills and Succession. In this book, Business Associations includes Agency Law, Limited Liability Parnerships, and General Partnerships. Corporations belongs in this section, but stands under its own heading since it was once tested as separate subject. Criminal Law and Procedure are also separate sections. Therefore, there are 15 separate major subject headings. This book contains every essay exam from July 2001 through February 2020. Also note that some of the same subjects fall under different headings for example, Remedies is a main heading. However, Remedies also falls under the tested subject of Contracts. In general, Remedies is covered more thoroughly in the Remedies section.

In February 2019 the subjects tested were Evidence/Civil Procedure, Professional Responsibility, Real Property, Torts, and Wills/Trusts/Community Property. In July 2019 the subjects tested were Civil Procedure, Contracts, Criminal Law and Procedure, Professional Responsibility, and Remedies/Constitutional Law. Between the two tests, they included 12 of the 13 Subjects tested. The only subject not tested in 2019 was Business Associations/Corporation/Agency Law.

In 2018, 8 Subjects were tested, Business Associations/Corporations/Agency Law, Civil Procedure, Remedies, Torts, and Trusts were not tested.

In July 2017, the number of questions dropped to 5. The February Exam had 6 questions. That year, 9 subjects were tested, Constitutional Law, Contracts, Real Property, and Trusts were not tested.

Cross-over questions are used to include more subjects within the same 5 questions. Cross-over questions 2017, 2018, and 2019 were: Evidence/Civil Procedure; Professional Responsibility/Contracts; Professional Responsibility/Evidence; Remedies/Constitutional Law; Remedies/Torts; Wills/Community Property; Wills/Trusts/Community Property.

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