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California Performance Test Workbook: Preparation for the Bar Exam, Second Edition

Authors
  • Mary Basick
  • Tina Schindler
Series / Bar Review Series
Teaching Materials
NO
Description

The Second Edition of California Performance Test Workbook contains everything needed to pass the performance test portion of the California Bar Exam, which is essential since the performance test score counts double. The book provides an innovative step-by-step strategic general approach for organizing and writing passing performance test answers within 90 minute timed conditions. The authors also provide specific page-by-page deconstructions with guidance and commentary on real released California Performance Test practice questions, along with corresponding answer grids, annotated sample passing answers, and released passing answers.

New to the Second Edition:

  • Updated 90-minute style performance exams
  • New innovative performance test approaches with step-by-step instructions
  • All performance test examples with page by page annotations
  • An extra practice appendix provides additional practice for the more challenging components of the performance test

Professors and students will benefit from:

  • Options for how to organize a performance test based on different learning styles
  • A step by step approach with target time goals for each component of the test
  • Sample performance tests with step-by-step deconstructions, answer grids, annotated sample passing answers and released passing answers
  • Examples of a variety of different task memos and sample libraries so students get extra practice on essential skills
  • including sample task memos with corresponding organizational analysis, and sample libraries with corresponding book briefs and rule deconstructions

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About the authors
Mary Basick
Assistant Dean
Southwestern Law School

Mary Basick is the Assistant Dean for Bar Preparation and an Associate Professor of Law for Academic Success and Bar Preparation at Southwestern Law School, where she recently led the school to historic bar passage rates. For over a decade she has successfully designed programs, developed innovative and engaging curricula, and taught courses in bar preparation and academic support. Mary Basick has written several popular books on bar preparation with longtime collaborator Tina Schindler. Their bar preparation books are concise and practical, condensing vast amounts of substantive law into manageable concepts presented in a useful and easily understandable format. Together they have authored emEssay Exam Writing for the California Bar Examem (Wolters Kluwer, 2sundsu ed. 2020), emCalifornia Performance Test Workbookem (Wolters Kluwer, 2sundsu ed. 2020), and emMBE Decodedem (Wolters Kluwer, 2021.) In addition, she authored the emMultistate Bar Examem flash card set for the Emanuel Law in a Flash series.

Tina Schindler
Professor
Southwestern Law School

Professor Schindler is the Director of Bar Preparation and an Associate Professor of Law for Academic Success and Bar Preparation at Southwestern Law School, where she recently helped lead the school to historic bar passage rates. For over a decade she has designed academic and bar exam support programs, created innovative curricula, directed bar preparation programs and pre-admission law school programs, taught courses and workshops in all California bar tested subjects, and published books that enable students to pass both the essay and performance test portion of the California Bar Exam.& She co-authored (with Mary Basick) a popular and highly rated bar preparation book, emEssay Exam Writing for the California Bar Examem, which is in its second edition.& She also co-authored (with Mary Basick) the book, emCalifornia Performance Test Workbook: Preparation for the Bar Examem, also in its second edition.& Her work was also published in the book, emYour Guide to Taking the Bar (Again)em. In addition to teaching and publishing on bar exam subjects and test-taking strategies, Professor Schindler has graded and lectured for several bar preparation companies and served on several committees related to bar passage for the Association of Academic Support Educators (AASE).& As an expert in the field of academic and bar support, Professor Schindler has been invited to present on bar exam topics at national conferences including her heavily attended presentation on Improving Multiple-Choice Test Taking at the AASE Annual Conference.

Product Information
Edition
Second Edition
Publication date
2019-10-14
Copyright Year
2020
Pages
492
Paperback
9781543813517
Connected eBook with Study Center (Digital Only)
9781543835977
Subject
Bar Preparation
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