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California Performance Test Workbook: Preparation for the Bar Exam, Second Edition

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Authors
  • Mary Basick
  • Tina Schindler
Series / Bar Review Series
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Book length
496 pages
Publication Date
2019-10-14
Edition
Second Edition
Description

The Second Edition of California Performance Test Workbook contains everything needed to pass the performance test portion of the California Bar Exam, which is essential since the performance test score counts double. The book provides an innovative step-by-step strategic general approach for organizing and writing passing performance test answers within 90 minute timed conditions. The authors also provide specific page-by-page deconstructions with guidance and commentary on real released California Performance Test practice questions, along with corresponding answer grids, annotated sample passing answers, and released passing answers. 

New to the Second Edition:

  • Updated 90-minute style performance exams
  • New innovative performance test approaches with step-by-step instructions
  • All performance test examples with page by page annotations
  • An extra practice appendix provides additional practice for the more challenging components of the performance test

Professors and students will benefit from:

  • Options for how to organize a performance test based on different learning styles
  • A step by step approach with target time goals for each component of the test
  • Sample performance tests with step-by-step deconstructions, answer grids, annotated sample passing answers and released passing answers
  • Examples of a variety of different task memos and sample libraries so students get extra practice on essential skills
  • including sample task memos with corresponding organizational analysis, and sample libraries with corresponding book briefs and rule deconstructions

 

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About the authors
Mary Basick
Assistant Dean for Academic Skills
University of California, Irvine

Mary Basick is the Assistant Dean of Academic Skills at UC Irvine Law School. She has successfully designed programs, developed innovative and engaging curricula, and taught courses in academic skills and bar preparation for over twenty years. Dean Basick utilizes best practices, statistical data, effective teaching pedagogy, and cognitive learning theory to develop and implement programming, resulting in historic bar passage success at several law schools. Dean Basick has coauthored popular best-selling books on bar preparation, consults and provides expert commentary on the bar exam and preparation, and is a member of the California State Bar Law School Council. She received the 2025 Impact Award from the Association of Academic Success Educators for her bar exam advocacy.

Tina Schindler
Associate Director of Academic Skills
University of California, Irvine

Professor Schindler is the Associate Director of Academic Skills at University of California, Irvine School of Law. For almost two decades, she has designed academic and bar exam support programs at a variety of schools, created innovative curricula, directed bar preparation programs and pre-admission law school programs, taught courses and workshops in all California bar tested subjects, and published books that enable students to pass both the essay and performance test portion of the California Bar Exam.

She co-authored (with Mary Basick) a popular and highly rated bar preparation book, Essay Exam Writing for the California Bar Exam, which is in its third edition. She also co-authored (with Mary Basick) the book, California Performance Test Workbook: Preparation for the Bar Exam, in its second edition. Her work was also published in the book, Your Guide to Taking the Bar (Again).

Professor Schindler has also taught doctrinal classes in the areas of Civil Procedure, Professional Responsibility, and Remedies. Professor Schindler’s experiences also involve grading and lecturing for several bar preparation companies, serving on several committees related to bar passage, and presenting on bar exam topics at national conferences. With a Microbiology undergraduate major, she also successfully sat for the patent bar exam and worked on patent applications in her early career years.
Product Information
Edition
Second Edition
Publication date
2019-10-14
Copyright Year
2020
Pages
496
Paperback
9781543813517
LLPOD
9798886146561
Connected eBook with Study Center (Digital Only)
9781543835977
Subject
Bar Preparation
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