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Pennsylvania Essay Review — Only $795 without the MBE


The Pennsylvania Essay Review includes everything you need to master your essay writing skills and prepare completely for the state portion of the exam, but without any coverage of the MBE subjects.

This state-specific course features the highly personalized components of the full Pennsylvania Review, including the Pennsylvania Performance Test. On-demand lectures are expertly linked and integrated with questions, performance test training, and personalized feedback from your Bar Exam Adviser.

Pennsylvania Essay Review features:
  • Dynamic lectures by the nation's top law professors
  • Embedded assessment quizzes reinforce key concepts
  • Comprehensive, searchable outlines cover the testable subjects (except the MBE subjects)
  • Pennsylvania Performance Test (PT) workshop with strategies specific to the Pennsylvania PT
  • Personal Bar Exam Adviser provides personalized feedback on eight of your essays
  • State-specific distinctions to the MBE, when testable*
  • Daily to-do list, progress tracking, and a network of dedicated staff attorneys keep you on track
Themis prepares you like no other review! The Directed Study mode tells you exactly what tasks to complete each day, moves you seamlessly through lectures, practice questions, outlines, and even adjusts your schedule if you take a day off from studying. And, your personal Bar Exam Adviser will provide the guidance you need to master your writing skills. It's easy to track your progress - even compare your progress with your peers.

Register now for the Pennsylvania Essay Review.

*Note that the Pennsylvania Essay Review does not include coverage of the generic MBE subjects.
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Testable Subject Areas on the Pennsylvania Bar Examination


The Pennsylvania Bar Examination consists of the Multistate Bar Examination (MBE), six essay questions, and one Performance Test. The Performance Test is designed to test an applicant's fundamental lawyering skills by applying law in a closed-universe "library" to a "file" of specific facts, usually in the form of a memorandum or letter. The MBE is a six-hour, two-hundred question multiple-choice examination covering Constitutional Law, Contracts, Criminal Law and Procedure, Evidence, Real Property, and Torts. The Pennsylvania Bar Examination is administered over two days in February and July each year during the last week of the month that includes a Wednesday. The MBE is administered on Wednesday.

Business Organizations (Corporations and Partnerships)

Civil Procedure (Federal and Pennsylvania)

Criminal Law (MBE, PA Distinctions, and PA DUI)

Conflict of Laws

Constitutional Law (MBE and PA Constitutional Law)

Contracts (MBE and PA Distinctions)

Employment Discrimination (Title VII, ADA, ADEA)

Evidence (MBE and PA Distinctions)

PA Family Law
  Federal Income Taxation

PA DUI

PA Professional Responsibility

Real Property (MBE and PA Distinctions)

Sales (MBE and PA Distinctions)

Torts (MBE and PA Distinctions)

PA Trusts

PA Wills and Estates

Pennsylvania Performance Test
The Pennsylvania Performance Test is a 90-minute skills-based exam designed to test an applicant's fundamental lawyering skills by applying law in a closed-universe library to a file of specific facts, usually in the form of a memorandum or letter.

Pennsylvania Board of Law Examiners


Mailing Address via US Postal Service
(Certified/First Class/Priority/Express Mail)
601 Commonwealth Avenue, Suite 3600
P.O. Box 62535
Harrisburg, PA 17106-2535

Physical Address:
(Overnight Deliveries via DHL/FedEx/UPS)
601 Commonwealth Avenue, Suite 3600
Harrisburg, PA 17120-0901
(717)231-3350

For information on the Pennsylvania bar exam format, grading or results visit: www.pabarexam.org.

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