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April 4, 2023 Webinar: Strategies to Pass the Quebec Bar Exam: Winter 2023 Edition
Are you stressed out about the Quebec Bar? Do you want that little extra bit of help to push you over the top? I'm glad to announce that Sharpened is expanding the range of tutoring services which it now offers and will host the sixth edition of its 1-hour crash...
Quebec Ethics Exam: Precious Tips
The ethics exam is quickly approaching and you are wondering what to expect and some tricks to prepare accordingly. With a very high degrees of accuracy, I am comfortable stating that your ethics exam will likely comprise of the following: 12 points for ethical...
You Say You Want a Revolution: Quebec Bar School Reform
After talking about our Quebec Bar School reform for many years, it appears like it is finally going to happen. Starting with a pilot project in the 2022–2023 academic year, a full transformation is scheduled to occur as of the 2023 – 2024 academic year. In a...
What Topics will be on my Bar Exam?: Statistics Since 2011
Roughly one month before the Quebec Bar Exam and the retake exam, the topics (subjects) for that examination are released. Although at first glance, this means that you need to wait until the topics are released to really start studying as you don't know yet what will...
What are my Chances of Passing the Quebec Bar? Part 2: Preparatory Classes and Student Ranking
Should you sign up for preparatory classes? That's the question you need to take when you sign up for the Bar School. But let me take a step back and explain the whole Bar process. The École du Barreau du Quebec offers either a four-month or a eight-month program. The...
What are my Chances of Passing the Quebec Bar? Part 1: Total Pass Rate and Law School
In this era of daily statistic counts, let's take a look at the stats for passing the Quebec Bar. Every year, the Barreau du Quebec releases statistics for that year. Digging through the internet, I managed to find the official statistics for the last nine cycles...
Quebec Bar: What not to Study
Time is precious and the Bar Exam is quickly approaching, so what can you avoid studying to focus on the essentials? If you’re looking for a long list of subjects which are never on the exam, unfortunately you’re out of luck. The Barreau du Québec chooses new...
Quebec Bar Rewrite: Recalibrate and Take Notes on Exam Questions
Maybe the Quebec Bar Exam didn’t go exactly as you would have liked or you just want to prepare better for this first round of the exam, this post will look at some strategies to improve your score on the Bar exam. The rewrite or “la reprise” is a mulligan, a quick...
Recent Quebec Bar Exam Questions
The Quebec Bar Exam is quickly approaching and you're wondering how to do your final prep. I can't emphasize enough the importance of doing past exams early during your study process as this will help you better understand how the Barreau du Quebec asks questions and...
Codes: Which Ones to Choose and How to Annotate
Just some answers to the common questions of which codes to choose, how to annotate, and whether you should read the Collection de droit. So, you’re writing the Quebec Bar and one of the first questions which you will be confronted with is which codes to buy (by codes...
Quebec Bar Past Ethics Exams
After starting Quebec Bar School, before you know it, you have to write the ethics exam. This exam is your first exposure to bar-style questions and students often do quite poorly on it. I would say that roughly half of all students writing the exam fail it and those...
Quebec Bar Past Equivalency Exams
Short on time, equivalency exams are the answer for you. These exams pack more subjects into one exam than do the Quebec Bar Past Exams. This page contains all of the past Quebec Bar equivalency exams with solution sheets (and without annotations) that I was able to...
Past Quebec Bar Exams vs. Current Bar Exams
The Quebec Bar Exam is now around the corner and you’ve been preparing for months, but you only have past bar exams up to 2004, so is it worthwhile to do these old exams and are they even similar to current examinations? This is the topic of today’s post. (Past exams...
Quebec Bar Past Exams
Here are all of the past Quebec Bar exams (without annotations) with solution sheets I was able to find divided by topic. None are more recent than 2004, but here they are so that everyone has access to them to level the playing field. Although the exams are not fully...
Bar Exam Drafting Questions: What to Expect?
Drafting Questions: Analyzed through a past exam question on Obligations During the first day of the Quebec Bar Exams (it used to be the second), you’ll be faced with a drafting question (redaction). Generally, this question asks you to write the conclusions for some...
Quebec Bar Short Answer Cardinal Rules
Short answer questions: analyzed through a business law bar question Let’s start with the Golden Rule. It isn’t “do unto others as you would have then do unto you”, rather it’s about how many articles to cite along with your answer. When answering a question, cite one...
Bar Exam Questions: What to Expect?
A typical labour law multiple-choice question So, the Quebec Bar exam is coming up and you want to know what you’re getting into. If you think that the exam is going to resemble the preparatory annexes, you’re in for a bad surprise. The exam is totally different. For...