NextGen tests fewer subjects and far more lawyering skill. Peppercorn drills both halves from your own material — doctrine and the performance tasks around it.
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The NextGen UBE is nine hours, three hours shorter than the exam it replaces, and it runs over one and a half days — two three-hour sessions on the first day, one on the second. Each session is built the same way: two integrated question sets, one performance task, and roughly 40 multiple-choice questions. Scores are reported on a single 500–750 scale.
It tests eight foundational concepts — business associations and relationships, civil procedure, constitutional law, contracts, criminal law and the constitutional protections of accused persons, evidence, real property and torts — alongside seven foundational skills: issue spotting and analysis, investigation and evaluation, client counseling and advising, negotiation and dispute resolution, client relationship and management, legal research, and legal writing and drafting.
Two details are easy to miss. The criminal heading covers the constitutional protections of accused persons, so criminal procedure is in scope even though the subject list reads as though it is not. And family law appears on every NextGen exam in a performance task through the February 2028 administrations, tested with legal resources provided — so it is examinable without being one of the eight.
The structural change is that skills are no longer a separate paper you can revise for separately. An integrated question set hangs several questions off one developing fact pattern, so the doctrine and the lawyering judgment are assessed in the same breath. Knowing the rule is necessary and no longer sufficient; you are also being asked what a lawyer would do next, which is a habit built by practising, not by reading.
Sets that follow what you keep getting wrong rather than a fixed order.
IRAC essay grading with feedback on structure, not just conclusions.
Nine modes in total, all built from your own material — see them all.
Sitting the NextGen UBE? The Bar Prep Pass is US$349 one-time, no subscription — the full Complete feature set, ~10 weeks of access opening before your writing date, and a discounted retake extension if you sit again.
Studying year-round instead? Core is US$49/month or US$394/year, and Complete — every mode, prep content included — is US$89/month or US$854/year.
Every account still opens on 7 days of Complete free, no card. The Pass is for when you already know you're sitting. Full breakdown.
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.