The LSO exams are open book, which makes recall speed and indexing the real skill. Peppercorn drills your own materials so you know where everything is before you sit down.
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Ontario licensing is two separate examinations — the Barrister and the Solicitor. Each is self-study, multiple choice and open book, 160 items long, and four hours and thirty minutes in length. You pick the best of four options, and the papers mix independent multiple-choice items with case-based ones.
Open book is the part candidates most often misread. It does not make the exam easier; it makes it a speed and indexing exam. With 160 items in four and a half hours you have well under two minutes each, so there is no time to look much up. What is actually being tested is whether you know the material well enough to know when you need to look, and where — which is why how you build and tab your materials matters as much as what you memorise.
The two papers cover different ground. The Barrister exam covers public law, criminal law, family law and civil litigation. The Solicitor exam covers business law, real estate, and wills and estates. Peppercorn's track asks which one you are sitting and narrows to it, rather than mixing both into one pile.
The case-based items are where candidates lose time. A single fact scenario carries several questions, so misreading it once costs you more than one mark, and the material you would need to check sits across different tabs of your own index. That is the actual skill the format tests: not whether you can find a rule, but whether you knew you needed to.
Multiple choice on Ontario rules, with an explanation for every option. Open-book rewards recognising the answer rather than reconstructing it.
A per-subject black-letter outline built from your own syllabus, exportable to PDF or Word — which is the thing you actually carry in.
Timed definitions, because on a speed exam a rule you half-remember costs you the lookup time you do not have.
Accuracy by sub-topic so a weak area in, say, real estate surfaces as its own number rather than hiding inside an overall score.
Everything is built from material you supply, so the practice follows your own notes and your own framing rather than a bank written for someone else.
Awaiting real generated output — not written by hand.
Yes, as separate subject sets. Pick the one you are sitting and the track narrows to its subjects; switch when you move on to the other.
No. Quebec follows the civil code rather than the common law, so common-law practice would be the wrong material. For common-law provinces, see the Canada — Common Law track.
The Passes are scoped to bar and Baby Bar writing periods, so for LSO licensing use the free trial and then Core or Complete.
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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.