Performance tasks
Ace Your Next Performance Task Like It Was Nothing
On exam day the file is brand new and your brain is already cooked. Open a complete performance task now, get scored on the examiners' own twenty-four subpoints, and walk into that afternoon having already done this.
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How we boost your exam scores
We'll Help You Ace Performance Tasks Before Exam Day!
We'll get you from putting the file off until later to opening an unfamiliar packet with your hands knowing what to do. You work a complete case file and library in a real workspace, and the moment you submit you are scored on the examiners' own six lawyering skills across all twenty-four subpoints.
- 20 years
- of exam data researched
- 2,170
- most-tested rules extracted
- Every rule
- cited to its source
- You get a complete case file and library in a real workspace, built to the real performance-task format, including the component-based sitting.
- Every submit is scored on the NCBE's six fundamental lawyering skills across all twenty-four subpoints.
- That rubric is the examiners' own published framework, derived from the ABA's MacCrate Report.
- The model answer opens on submit, so you see how a full-credit work product was organized.
Hear from our students
“Two weeks out I still had never opened a performance task. I kept telling myself I would figure it out when it counted. I finally sat one with the file and library in front of me, half-cooked after a full afternoon of essays, and my hands already knew what was noise and what the memo wanted. Extracting facts stopped being a panic.”
Andre T.
3L, bar candidate · Pro
“Nobody in my family had ever sat a bar exam, so the performance task felt like a secret handshake I was supposed to already know. I used my free task on Basic, opened the packet cold, and for once somebody scored me on the actual skills instead of leaving me to guess whether the memo looked right. I stopped being scared of the file.”
Sofia R.
3L, first-generation · Basic
“I thought I was fine because I could write a memo. Then a component task asked for three smaller deliverables out of the same file and I leaked organization all over the score. Seeing the twenty-four subpoints named what was wrong instead of telling me the whole thing felt off. Next time I built the outline before I touched the draft.”
Jonah M.
3L · Pro
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What you get
Here's What You Get in Our Performance Tasks
- Complete Case File & Library
- Six Skills, 24 Subpoints
- Graded the Moment You Submit
- Full-Credit Model Answer
- Every Document Format
- Component Tasks Included
See for yourself
Open a real task file.
This is a real performance task. Open the assigning memo, skim a case-file document and a library authority, and notice that a full-credit model answer is waiting the moment you would submit.
Performance Task · Brief
Persuasive brief
Dr. Elena Vargas of EcoConsult LLC seeks representation against Citizens for Clean Groundwater and the Middleburg Gazette. On May 12, 2026, the coalition distributed leaflets at a town meeting accusing Dr.…
From the case file
Memorandum to Examinee
Memorandum · May 20, 2026 · Dana Carraway → Examinee
240 West End Highway Middleburg, Franklin 33905 Dr. Elena Vargas, an environmental scientist at EcoConsult LLC, seeks our representation in a defamation and invasion of privacy action.…
The Statements Are False and Defamatory Communications
Plus the rest of the full-credit outline, organized the way a strong work product is actually built.
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Questions about performance tasks
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The specifics
More about our performance tasks
Complete Case File & Library
The complete file and library, the way the real task gives it to you.
You are handed the assigning memo, a case file of documents with their senders, recipients, and dates, and a library of authorities with citations and jurisdiction. Nothing is labeled useful. Finding the operative facts and the law that controls them is the whole exercise.
What you are handed
- The assigning memo with your actual instructions
- A case file of memos, letters, transcripts, and forms
- A library of statutes, cases, and rules with citations
- No hints about which documents are the useful ones
The workspace
Split or stacked, and it saves itself.
Put the file beside your draft or above it, whichever fits your screen, and your writing autosaves while you work. Highlight passages in the case file and library as you go, so the facts that matter stay marked when you draft.
Built for how you actually work a file
Split or stacked
Put the materials beside your draft or above it. The layout is remembered next time.
Autosave
Your draft saves itself while you work, until you submit and lock it.
Highlights
Mark passages in the case file and library so the operative facts stay visible.
File and library tabs
Every document listed with senders, dates, citations, and jurisdiction.
Six Skills, 24 Subpoints
Scored on the examiners' own six lawyering skills.
Our rubric is the National Conference of Bar Examiners' six fundamental lawyering skills, broken into all twenty-four subpoints. We did not invent a grading scheme. We used the published framework derived from the ABA's MacCrate Report, the same skills the performance task was built around.
The six skills, twenty-four subpoints
- Problem solving
- Legal analysis and reasoning
- Factual analysis
- Communication
- Organization and management of a legal task
- Recognizing and resolving ethical dilemmas
Graded the Moment You Submit
Submit once. See which skills landed.
Submission locks your work product, scores it against all twenty-four subpoints, and returns a total out of twenty-four rolled up to the six skills. You get named strengths and specific improvements, so the next file is not another mystery.
What comes back on submit
Score out of 24
Every subpoint is scored, then totaled so you know where you landed.
Six-skill rollup
See which lawyering skills held and which ones cost you, by name.
Named strengths
Short bullets on what your work product already did well.
Specific improvements
Concrete fixes for the next unfamiliar file, not vague encouragement.
Full-Credit Model Answer
See how a full-credit work product was organized.
The model answer opens on submit so you can compare structure, not just a vibe. You see the issues a strong answer had to reach and how the library was used, which is what turns the next file from a mystery into a format you have already survived.
Every Document Format
Every format a task can ask you to draft.
The instruction is not always write a memo. Tasks ask for the range of documents real performance tasks demand, each with its own conventions, audience, and tone. Practicing only one format leaves you exposed the first time the assigning memo asks for something else.
Formats you will draft
Objective memorandum
Cold analysis for the assigning attorney.
Persuasive brief
Argue the side the memo assigns you.
Client letter
Plain-language advice to a non-lawyer.
Settlement agreement
Terms that have to survive both sides.
Contract review
Find the risk in someone else's draft.
Selected-response components
Choose correctly from options tied to the file.
Component Tasks Included
Single tasks and multi-part component tasks.
Practice the traditional one-document task and the component-based format, where a single file produces several smaller deliverables with their own answer formats. Both appear on real exams. Only one of them surprises people.
Two formats you will meet
Traditional task
One assigning memo. One work product. Draft the memo, brief, letter, or agreement the memo asks for.
Component-based task
One file, several smaller deliverables. Single-select, multi-select, and short written parts in sequence.
On exam day
The same tasks show up inside a full timed sitting.
Writing one task on a Tuesday is a different exercise from writing one after three hours of multiple choice and essays. Practice exams put the performance task in its real place in the day, under the clock when you want it.
Progress
Every scored task stays on file.
Past attempts stay listed with their scores so improvement is visible, and you can reopen the submission next to the model answer weeks later. Written work stops vanishing into a downloads folder.
Study points
A completed task earns study points that come off your bill.
The first time a performance task is scored, you earn study points that convert into a credit against your subscription. Harder work pays, and the balance never expires.
What a scored task earns
Completed performance task
Awarded the first time the task is scored. The balance never expires.
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