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Chapter 16: The NextGen Bar Exam and Legal Research

How research skills are tested on the NextGen bar exam, and how the Question Method prepares you for each of the five named competencies.

Orientation

Explore the concepts from this chapter

Five Skills, Mapped

The five research skills tested in the NextGen Bar Exam’s Foundational Skills Group C, each mapped to the chapters that built it — with a name-that-skill exercise.

What this module will let you do

  • The five skills, one by one
  • Tap a skill; the chapters that trained it light up
  • The anatomy of an exam research task

Practice

Apply what you’ve learned

The Closed Universe

A fictional statute and three fictional cases — six exam-style questions answerable only from the provided sources, including the one the universe cannot answer. Format modeled on released exam materials; all content original.

What this module will let you do

  • Work only from the provided sources
  • Spot the ambiguity, rank the authority, state what's missing
  • Original questions modeled on the released sample's format — research tasks only, no writing component
  • Timed, extended, or untimed — your choice, recorded without penalty