Bar Readiness Test

10 questions, balanced across the exam's topics. Answer each one, then submit for your practice readiness estimate and per-topic breakdown. This is a practice estimate — not a prediction or guarantee of your official exam result.

Question 1

The lender finances Tom's truck. To perfect, The lender must:

Have the lien noted on the certificate of title, because certificate-of-title statutes govern perfection for covered vehicles. Take possession of the vehicle. Do nothing; auto loans perfect automatically. File a standard UCC-1.

Question 2

Sam agrees to buy Priya's business for $200,000, 'on the express condition that the landlord consents to assignment.' the landlord refused consent. Priya sues for the price. Who wins?

Priya, because courts disfavor conditions and will excuse them. Sam, because the express condition precedent was not satisfied. Priya, because substantial performance excuses express conditions. Sam, because all conditions are implied rather than express.

Question 3

Investors seeks to certify a class of 2,000 shareholders against a company. Certification requires:

Numerosity, commonality, typicality, and adequacy (23(a)), plus a 23(b) category such as predominance and superiority for damages classes. The defendant's consent. That each member's claim exceeds $75,000. Only that many people were harmed.

Question 4

Police find a gun through a bad warrant, but the prosecution shows an inventory search was already underway. The evidence is:

Excluded, because inevitable discovery applies only to confessions. Admissible only if the defendant consents. Excluded, because the violation was flagrant. Admissible under inevitable discovery, because it would have been found through lawful means.

Question 5

Nina aims a loaded gun at Tom and shoots, intending to kill Tom. Tom dies. The most appropriate homicide charge is:

Involuntary manslaughter, because death was caused by a gunshot. Murder, because Nina acted with intent to kill (express malice). Voluntary manslaughter, because all shootings are mitigated. No homicide, because Tom's death was instantaneous.

Question 6

A new regulation imposes landmark status on an owner's historic building, reducing its value by 30% but leaving economically viable uses. an owner claims a taking. Under Penn Central, the court considers:

Only the percentage of value lost, with any loss over 50% automatically a taking. The economic impact, interference with investment-backed expectations, and the character of the government action. Whether the regulation is good public policy. Only whether the owner was notified before the regulation passed.

Question 7

In Daniel's trial, the prosecution calls Daniel's spouse to testify about a private admission during the marriage. Which privilege analysis is correct?

Spouses may never testify about anything. The privilege belongs to the prosecution. No privilege exists between spouses in any case. The confidential-marital-communications privilege protects private spousal communications during the marriage; the adverse-testimonial privilege lets a spouse refuse to testify against the defendant spouse in criminal cases.

Question 8

Maya conveys 'to Daniel, but if Daniel stops farming, then to Priya.' Priya's interest is:

A shifting executory interest, because it cuts short Daniel's estate in favor of a transferee. A reversion. Void under the Rule Against Perpetuities automatically. A vested remainder.

Question 9

Tom, employed by a courier to pick up packages, stops briefly at a drive-through on the route and injures a cyclist. a courier is liable if the deviation was:

A mere detour (slight, serving the employer's business), but not a frolic (a substantial personal departure). Approved in writing. During lunch. Any deviation at all.

Question 10

A grandmother seeks court-ordered visitation with her grandson over the mother's objection. Under Troxel v. Granville, the court must:

Deny all grandparent visitation. Decide based on the grandparent's wealth. Grant visitation whenever the grandparent asks. Give special weight to the fit parent's decision; visitation requires a showing overcoming that deference, typically harm or best interests under the statute.

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