Full MBE subject-weight blueprint plus state essay format — the traditional bar exam structure most jurisdictions still use. Peppercorn builds it from the material you are actually studying.
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The constant across jurisdictions is the MBE: 200 multiple-choice questions over six hours, split into a morning and an afternoon session of 100 questions each, with no scheduled break inside either one. Only 175 of those count — the other 25 are unscored pretest items seeded through the paper, and nothing marks which is which.
Those 175 scored questions are divided evenly across seven subjects: Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Contracts, Criminal Law and Procedure, Evidence, Real Property and Torts. Twenty-five each. That even split is worth taking seriously, because it is not how most people revise — a subject you find dull is worth exactly as much as the one you enjoy, and a weak seventh costs you about fourteen percent of the paper.
Around the MBE, most jurisdictions add essays and a performance test. Where the NCBE's own components are used, the MEE is six 30-minute essays over three hours, and the MPT is two 90-minute tasks. The MPT is the one that catches people out: it hands you a File of raw material and a Library of authority and asks for a finished work product using only what it gave you. There is nothing to memorise and no credit for law you knew already.
What that mix rewards is different per component, which is why a single revision method tends to fail somewhere. The MBE punishes imprecise rule statements under time. The essays punish thin application — a correct conclusion with no argument scores badly. The performance test punishes poor instruction-following more than poor law. Preparation that only drills multiple choice leaves two of the three untouched.
MBE-style multiple choice with a detailed explanation for every option, right and wrong.
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Peppercorn's questions, model answers and outlines are generated by AI and checked by a second pass before you see them. They're built to be accurate and exam-realistic, but AI can be wrong. Use it to drill and stress-test your understanding, not as your only source of truth. Peppercorn is not affiliated with the NCBE, any state bar, the LSO or any law school.