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Here are three questions from our bank, in the formats the exam uses, scored the way the exam scores them.

But For · practice for the NextGen bar exam

You’ll work them the same way members do on The Bench, which is our name for the practice app that comes with membership: the question bank, the sets, the tasks, the grader, and your record, in one place. Answer each one, say how sure you were, and read the explanation for every answer choice, right or wrong. There’s nothing to sign up for and nothing to install.

The questionSelect-two, scored 2 / 1 / 0

Live · Three questionsSelect-two · Evidence · Partial credit scored

Moments after a loud collision at an intersection, a bystander shouted, “That truck ran the red light!” A witness who heard the shout will testify to it; the bystander cannot be located. You anticipate a hearsay objection.

Which of the following legal topics are the most important for you to research to determine admissibility?

Select two.

Selected 0 / 2 This question is worth 2 One right pick earns 1 A blank earns 0

Confidence

Keys: excited utterance and present sense impression. A startled shout describing an event as it happens fits both exceptions at once: it comes out under the stress of the moment, and it describes the event as it is happening. Either can carry the statement in. Dying declaration fails on every element. The best evidence rule only governs writings, recordings and photographs, not shouts, and neither privilege nor habit has any footing here.

The one line to remember: the missing bystander is a red herring. Neither exception requires the person who spoke to be unavailable.

We build every question like this: an original fact pattern, wrong answers written to be near misses on purpose, an explanation for every answer choice, and one line to remember it by. These three are free for good, and twelve more are on where you stand. The other 1,179 are on The Bench.

Then write an answer and watch the grader mark it

Multiple choice is only part of the exam; roughly a third of your score is written work. Below is a task from one of our integrated sets, the format where one client’s case unfolds over several linked questions. You read the file, find two facts that support the argument, and write them down. The AI grader then marks your answer point by point and quotes your own words to show why.

Performance tasks alone are roughly a third of your score, and the integrated sets add short and medium written answers on top of that. Written work is where it’s easiest to fool yourself: you read a model answer, nod along, and it feels as if you could have written it.

So here is a real grade from the grader members use. The grader gave one point and quoted the writer’s own words to show why. It refused the other and wrote out the reason where you can read it.

Unedited, from the same grader members use.

The gradeMarked element by element

AI-graded · Verbatim “The Forfeited Deposit” · Component 2 · 2 points · 1 per answer

AI grade · assistive, not authoritative

The task: identify two specific facts supporting that the deposit retention is presumptively an unenforceable penalty.

The answer as written, with the grader’s marks
“The retained deposit is $12,000 on a $30,000 contract, 40% of the price, far above the fifteen percent threshold, so retention is presumptively an unenforceable penalty under 14-2-7(c). Second, Silver Fir Hall made no effort to rebook the date, so it cannot claim mitigation offsets under subsection (d).”

CreditedRefusedThe grader’s marks, on the answer’s own words.

1 / 2 One point credited · one refused

Grader rationale · verbatim

First item matches representative answer 1: “40% of the price, far above the fifteen percent threshold.”

The second item, “Silver Fir Hall made no effort to rebook the date, so it cannot claim mitigation offsets,” is not among the representative answers (which credit the 75-day advance notice/rebooking window, the all-cancellations forfeiture clause, or the 40% figure), and asserts a fact about the venue’s conduct rather than the timing of cancellation.

The score that counts: yours, not the model’s

We put it this way: “AI grading is assistive, not authoritative. The rubric is.” On integrated sets and performance tasks you can enter your own score here. Yours replaces the model’s in every total after that, and we record the change.

A grader that flatters you does you no favors in February. This one holds to the rubric and quotes your own words for every point it gives or refuses. And on integrated sets and performance tasks you can overrule it; your score is the one that counts.

Live · It grades you

Now you. Same task, one rule: the 40% figure has already earned its point above, so it won’t count again. The file below holds at least two more facts the grader will credit. Find them, write your answer, and the grader comes back with your score and its reasons. Your graded answer and our report on the first exam follow by email.

The file · what you have to work with

$30,000 contract; $12,000 deposit paid at signing: 40% of the price.
Kestrel canceled in writing seventy-five days before the event date.
Clause 9: on any cancellation, for any reason, at any time, all deposits are forfeited in their entirety.
§ 14-2-7(b)–(c): retention must be a reasonable forecast of hard-to-estimate harm; above fifteen percent of the contract price is presumptively a penalty.

One graded answer per email address. The grader marks it exactly the way it marks members’ answers, and members get unlimited grading on every written answer.

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What you can check

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If those three were useful, there are 1,194 of them on The Bench, plus eighteen integrated sets and twelve timed writing tasks, every one explained and graded the way you just saw. Full access is $399, one payment, and it runs through the July 2028 exam.