0196h
Foundation
Layered doctrine, retrieval, worked examples, and single-subject application
Free study schedule calculator
Turn the time you actually have into a complete bar plan.
Choose your exam track, runway, weekly hours, study days, candidate path, and highest-risk subject. The planner allocates foundation, integration, writing, simulations, repair, and recovery. This is a faster, single-page version of the full syllabus builder. Answer six inputs and get one schedule immediately, instead of stepping through the complete week-by-week program. The allocation follows the same order every complete plan should: build the doctrinal foundation first, then integrate it into mixed and client-file practice, layer in writing, add simulations, and hold dedicated time for repair and recovery. None of those last two are optional extras. The generated schedule is a planning snapshot for this session: print or copy it before you navigate away if you want to keep the specific weeks it produced.
TOTAL PLANNED WORK300 hours
AVERAGE STUDY DAY5.0 hours
PRIORITYReal Property
First-time · NextGen UBE
Your plan builds all foundations before increasing unknown-issue and full-condition work.
Phase allocation
0275h
Integration
Mixed questions, shared files, issue selection, and skills drills
0369h
Writing & performance
Constructed responses, essays or tasks, grading, and timed rewrites
0460h
Simulation & repair
Section simulations, full conditions, error-book review, and logistics
Representative study day
1Closed-book retrieval54 min
2Doctrinal lesson78 min
3Mixed or integrated practice81 min
4Constructed response or skill60 min
5Review and error-book repair27 min
Weekly non-negotiables
- One cumulative closed-book retrieval check
- At least two integrated sets and one performance task cycle
- One timed rewrite or re-performance after feedback
- One requirements and logistics checkpoint
- One protected recovery block
Why the phases are fixed, not optional
A calendar of lecture hours is not a study plan.
Copying another candidate's week-by-week calendar transfers their gaps, not their preparation. This calculator instead allocates your actual available hours across the six functions every complete plan needs, in the order they compound on each other, then scales the split to your runway and exam track.
Foundation, then integration
Doctrine has to exist before mixed, unknown-issue practice can be productive: starting integration too early just tests confusion.
Writing and simulations protectedWritten and performance work is the easiest phase to keep deferring; a fixed allocation stops it from being crowded out by more comfortable multiple-choice review.
Repair built in, not assumed
Every plan reserves time to act on error-log findings, not just to consume new material.
Recovery is a phase, not a leftoverSleep and rest before the exam are treated as a scheduled block, because a plan that only survives on paper is not a plan.
| Resource | Use it when |
|---|---|
| Complete outlines | The schedule allocates the hours; the outlines are what actually fills them. |
| Study method guide | Hours logged are climbing but retrieval on old material still is not sticking. |
| Corrective error log | You need somewhere to record and schedule repair for a timed miss, not just note it happened. |
| Score and readiness planner | You want to see how the hours you just scheduled translate into a weighted or NextGen score estimate. |
| Legacy UBE reference | Your administration still uses the MBE/MEE/MPT format this planner's legacy mode assumes. |
| Foreign-trained candidate guide | Your legal education was outside the U.S. and eligibility questions come before scheduling does. |
| Glossary | A bar or admission term is unfamiliar. |
| All free tools | You want to see every calculator and tracker in one place. |
01 · From NCBE's own pages
When each jurisdiction first gives the NextGen UBE, from NCBE's adoption table
NCBE's adoption table, updated July 16, 2026, lists a first NextGen administration for 51 jurisdictions. July 2026: Connecticut, Idaho, Maryland, Missouri, Oregon, Washington, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, Palau, Virgin Islands. July 2027: Arizona, Iowa, Kentucky, Minnesota, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Vermont, West Virginia, Wyoming. February 2028: Delaware, District of Columbia, Illinois, Montana.
The July 2028 group is the largest, with 24 jurisdictions: Alabama, Alaska, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Indiana, Kansas, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Wisconsin. A candidate in one of those groups sits the legacy UBE through February 2028. That fixes the format. NCBE says the table changes as jurisdictions report. Confirm your date on your own bar's page before you plan.
02 · From NCBE's own pages
Dates and formats to plan around
NCBE's UBE page lists legacy UBE administrations of February 23 and 24, 2027, July 27 and 28, 2027, and February 22 and 23, 2028. It also says that between July 2026 and July 2028 most jurisdictions will transition from the legacy UBE to the NextGen UBE. Find your jurisdiction's first NextGen date before you set the plan's end point.
The NextGen UBE has three three-hour sections given over one and a half days, with the second day on the last Wednesday of February or July. The exam is taken on your own laptop at an in-person, proctored location.
03 · From NCBE's own pages
Scope and readiness steps that need calendar time
NCBE's NextGen page says all examinees must complete technology and policy readiness steps before exam day. They confirm that your laptop is configured, that you know the digital testing environment and that technical issues are resolved. Put those steps on the plan as dated tasks.
NCBE's content scope lists eight foundational concepts and seven foundational skills through February 2028. Family law and trusts and estates appear only in skills-focused questions with legal resources provided.
QUICK ANSWERS
Questions about this tool
When are the next legacy UBE administrations?+
February 23 and 24, 2027, July 27 and 28, 2027 and February 22 and 23, 2028, according to NCBE's UBE page.
When will my jurisdiction move to the NextGen UBE?+
As NCBE notes, most jurisdictions transition between July 2026 and July 2028, and its NextGen adoption page shows when each jurisdiction first administers it.
How is the NextGen exam scheduled?+
Three three-hour sections over one and a half days, with the second day on the last Wednesday of February or July and the first day the Tuesday before.
What do I need to take the NextGen exam?+
Your own laptop, configured through NCBE's mandatory pre-exam technology and policy readiness steps, at an in-person proctored testing location.
Should the study plan include readiness steps?+
Yes. According to NCBE, all examinees must complete the pre-exam technology and policy readiness steps before exam day, so schedule them well ahead.
How many foundational subjects does NextGen test?+
Eight concepts through February 2028: business associations, civil procedure, constitutional law, contracts, criminal law, evidence, real property and torts.
How many foundational skills does NextGen test?+
Seven: legal research, legal writing, issue spotting and analysis, investigation and evaluation, client counseling and advising, negotiation and dispute resolution, and client relationship and management.
Do I need to study family law and trusts and estates in depth?+
No. As NCBE notes, those areas show up inside skills-based questions on each exam between July 2026 and February 2028, and the legal materials are supplied.
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