With the introduction of the NextGen Bar Exam, expectations for legal licensure are changing, and Academic Support Professionals are central to helping students meet them. BARBRI is committed to supporting law schools with NextGen-specific resources designed to help students build the skills, confidence, and readiness they need for the exam ahead.
As schools continue to adapt to the NextGen Bar Exam, we’re committed to providing practical resources that help ASPs support students throughout law school and prepare them for the evolving expectations of legal licensure.
One of the most significant changes introduced by the NextGen Bar Exam is the use of Integrated Question Sets. To help schools and students become familiar with this new assessment format, BARBRI has developed a collection of sample Integrated Question Sets along with educational resources that explore how these questions are designed and evaluated.
Explore the sample Integrated Question Sets below and access the webinar recording and presentation slides from our Let’s Talk: Drafting NextGen Integrated Question Sets webinar where BARBRI’s drafting experts discussed lessons from NCBE sample materials and shared practical guidance for understanding, drafting and teaching this new question type.
Access the webinar recording and presentation slides from our Let’s Talk: Mastering the NextGen Research Performance Task webinar where we examined the structure and objectives of the task, highlighted the competencies students must demonstrate and provided concrete strategies for teaching research, source analysis, and legal problem-solving.
Working alongside classroom instruction, BARBRI’s 1L Exam Success provides outlines, video lessons, and practice questions for required first-year courses. The program now includes multiple NextGen-style Integrated Question Sets and a dedicated question bank, helping students begin developing NextGen testing skills early in their law school journey.
As law schools continue to adapt to the NextGen Bar Exam, we’re committed to providing practical resources that help ASPs support students throughout law school and prepare them for the evolving expectations of legal licensure.
New for Fall 2026
The NextGen Bar Readiness Diagnostic gives students the opportunity to experience a three-hour block of the NextGen Bar Exam. This computer-based simulation mirrors the exam software, allowing students to navigate NextGen-style questions in a fully digital testing environment.
Following completion, students and law schools receive performance reports with actionable insights that help identify strengths, target support, and guide bar review preparation. The diagnostic is designed for students in their final year of law school.
Available Fall 2027
The NextGen Skills Diagnostic gives law schools an early view of students’ readiness for the NextGen Bar Exam. Through multiple-choice questions and integrated sets covering five first-year subjects, the diagnostic assesses core reading, critical thinking, and reasoning skills necessary for long-term success.
Detailed reporting helps faculty identify individual and cohort-level strengths, target areas for additional support, and make informed curricular decisions well before students begin intensive bar preparation.
Formerly the BARBRI Faculty Item Bank
The Bar Readiness Question Bank supports faculty in delivering effective formative assessments within their courses. It includes 400 single-select NextGen-style questions, with multi-select questions planned for spring 2027.
Faculty can incorporate these questions into coursework to reinforce learning, measure progress, and help students develop bar-relevant skills throughout law school.
Build NextGen Skills Throughout Law School
From foundational legal analysis through third-year bar prep, BARBRI curricular support helps schools build a connected pathway for skill developing and applying the skills emphasized in legal practice and on the NextGen Bar Exam. BARBRI provides curriculum training, implementation resources, and ongoing support to help faculty confidently bring these programs into the classroom.
Help students build the foundational skills needed for law school and beyond.
This pre-1L program introduces students to the expectations of legal education while developing critical skills such as case briefing, how to effectively read cases, legal problem solving and legal analysis, basic legal writing, and more. By helping students begin to "think like a lawyer" and develop these essential competencies before classes begin, the program creates a stronger foundation for the applied, skills-focused work emphasized on the NextGen Bar Exam and in legal practice.
This course can be delivered asynchronously as an online summer program over three weeks, or it may be taught by your faculty as an intensive during the orientation period.
Help students develop and demonstrate the legal analysis skills needed for legal practice and the NextGen bar exam.
This comprehensive curricular program introduces students to law school while helping them develop critical skills. Each chapter includes instruction in foundational legal analysis skills, including case reading, briefing, and legal reasoning, as well as in-class exercises that help students fully develop and express each skill.
The corresponding teaching materials and textbook, Client-Centered Legal Analysis (West Academic 2025), are authored by Joni Wiredu and Steven Foster. Instructors receive sample course syllabi, course objectives, individual objectives, and recommendations for in-class activities.
Bridge the gap between doctrinal learning and practice-ready skills.
Help students connect doctrinal learning, professional identity development, and practical lawyering skills before their final year. Built around Sarah Berman’s 2L Success: Lawyering Skills Training & Professional Identity Formation for Upper Division Law Students (West Academic 2025), this customizable curriculum helps students transition from academic study to practical legal work while strengthening skills that align with the NextGen Bar Exam.
Instructors are invited to participate in curriculum training and receive ongoing support throughout the semester.
Jumpstart NextGen bar preparation.
BARBRI’s 3L NextGen Topics curriculum is designed to jumpstart NextGen bar preparation through skills-focused, exam-aligned instruction, helping students bridge the gap between law school learning and the applied demands of the NextGen Bar Exam. This curriculum is available as an asynchronous or in-person course.
Through hands-on practice across all question types, students build familiarity with the exam format while receiving feedback that promotes understanding and builds confidence. BARBRI delivers a well-built, trustworthy course, along with implementation training, resources, and ongoing support, allowing schools to offer meaningful NextGen preparation without developing the program from the ground up.
The NextGen Bar Exam required more than updates to traditional bar preparation. BARBRIʼs NextGen Bar Review course was rebuilt from the ground up to reflect the integrated, skills-focused nature of the exam, aligning instruction, practice, and assessment with how students are now evaluated.
New skills instruction and assessment pedagogy use contextual learning through scenarios, placing instruction and practice directly in the context of the NextGen Bar Exam. Students develop and apply skills in the same integrated, realistic way they will be assessed, building familiarity, confidence, and exam-ready performance.
Our NextGen course incorporates four sets of NCBE-licensed content, each including 40 multiple-choice questions, two Integrated Question Sets, and one Performance Task.
Three sets are strategically integrated throughout the course, reinforcing knowledge and skills with exam-relevant practice. The fourth and final set is accessed on the NCBE platform and serves as the Final Prep Exam assigned during the final review.
For Family Law, Trusts and Estates, and Professional Responsibility
Animated narrative storytelling gives students the framework they need to approach exam questions when concepts from these subjects appear in Performance Tasks or Integrated Question Sets.
Drafted by BARBRI experts, the nine-hour BARBRI Simulated NextGen Exam mirrors the NextGen online exam-taking experience and aligns with NCBE-drafted content. It includes three Simulated Exam Sections. Each with:
40 machine graded multiple-choice questions
Two BARBRI-graded Integrated Question Sets
One BARBRI-graded Performance Task
A full expert-led review and analysis lecture to maximize learning and improvement
AdaptiBar’s MCQ Simulator for the NextGen UBE is designed to help students master standalone multiple-choice questions. Students can:
Practice with 1750+ multiple-choice practice bank featuring 290 licensed NextGen MCQs and 200 NextGen-style modified licensed MBE MCQs
Train with select-two and partial-question formats
Build skills across eight foundational subjects
Identify high-impact topics using starred question tagging
Analytics & Assignments transforms the MCQ Simulator into a powerful assessment platform for doctrinal and bar preparation courses. Create customized assignments using NextGen-aligned stand-alone multiple-choice questions and leverage robust analytics to monitor engagement and identify strengths, knowledge gaps, and opportunities.
NextGen CriticalPass Cards include more than 470 indexed, numbered, cross-referenced, and color-coded flashcards, keeping students organized and giving them another tool for NextGen bar preparation
Quimbee Sidebar Videos include lessons aligned with the NextGen UBE, featuring realistic client scenarios, NextGen-style multiple-choice questions, short-answer practice, and skills and strategy videos.
Contact your BARBRI Account Executive at accountexecutive@barbri.com.
