California Essay Review — Only $795 without the MBE
The California 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 California Review, including the California Performance Tests. On-demand lectures are expertly linked and integrated with questions, performance test training, and personalized feedback from your Bar Exam Adviser.
California Essay Review features:
- Dynamic, state-specific lectures by top California law professors
- Embedded assessment quizzes reinforce key concepts
- Comprehensive, searchable outlines cover the testable subjects (except the MBE subjects)
- California Performance Test (PT) workshop with strategies specific to the California 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
Register now for the California Essay Review.
*Note that the California Essay Review does not include coverage of the generic MBE subjects.
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California Attorney's Exam Review — Only $995
Themis California Bar Review is also available for eligible attorney applicants admitted in other jurisdictions who elect to take the unique California Attorney's Examination. The modified review is geared specifically for the Attorney's Exam, and includes all the components of the most powerful and highly-personalized training available, without the MBE testing center. Master your essay writing skills and completely prepare for the Attorney's Exam right online, with personalized support and guidance from an expert California Bar Exam Adviser.
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Go Green and Save an Additional $100!Go Green simply means you bypass printed materials when ordering the full Themis Bar Review. Don't worry – all outlines are online, searchable, and even allow you to highlight and take notes in the exclusive myNotebook™ feature. |
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Testable Subject Areas on the California Bar Examination
The subjects tested in the essay portion of the California Bar Exam include:
| Business Associations (Agency, Corporations, Partnerships, LLCs and Professional Associations)
Civil Procedure (Federal and California) Community Property Constitutional Law Contracts Criminal Law & Procedure Evidence (Federal and California) |
Professional Responsibility (with CA Business & Professions Code) Real Property Remedies Torts Trusts CA Wills & Succession |
California Performance Test
The California portion of the bar exam includes the California Performance Test (PT), which is a three-hour 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. Both the Themis California Essay Review and Attorney's Exam Review include everything you need to master the California PT.
Los Angeles Office of AdmissionsThe State Bar of California 1149 S. Hill Street Los Angeles, CA 90015-2299 213-765-1000 |
San Francisco Office of AdmissionsThe State Bar of California 180 Howard Street San Francisco, CA 94105-1639 415-538-2000 |
For information on the California bar exam, visit: www.calbar.ca.gov.














