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California First-Year Law Students Examination. 100 MCQs (2024 format), 560/800 to pass. Contracts, Criminal Law, Torts.

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Official 2024 syllabus extracted from https://www.calbar.ca.gov/admissions/examinations/first-year-law-students-examination/first-year-law-students-exam-grading-and-scope

Contracts

Offer

Acceptance

Consideration

Mutual assent

Defences to formation (incapacity, duress, misrepresentation, mistake)

Contract Formation

Conditions

Performance & substantial performance

Anticipatory repudiation

Material vs minor breach

Discharge by impossibility / frustration

Performance & Breach

Expectation damages

Reliance damages

Restitution

Specific performance

Liquidated damages

Mitigation

Remedies

Merchant rules

Battle of forms

Warranties (express, implied)

Risk of loss

Perfect tender rule

Remedies under UCC

UCC Article 2: Sale of Goods

Third party beneficiaries

Assignment

Delegation

Third Parties

Criminal Law

Actus reus

Mens rea (purpose, knowledge, recklessness, negligence)

Causation

Strict liability

Vicarious liability

Accomplice liability

General Principles

Solicitation

Conspiracy

Attempt

Inchoate Crimes

Homicide (murder, manslaughter, felony murder)

Assault

Battery

Kidnapping

Rape

Crimes Against Persons

Larceny

Embezzlement

False pretenses

Robbery

Burglary

Arson

Receiving stolen property

Crimes Against Property

Self-defence

Defence of others

Defence of property

Insanity tests

Intoxication

Necessity

Duress

Mistake of fact / law

Defences

Torts

False imprisonment

IIED

Trespass to land

Trespass to chattels

Conversion

Defences (consent, self-defence, necessity)

Intentional Torts

Duty of care

Breach

Causation (actual + proximate)

Damages

Res ipsa loquitur

Negligence per se

Negligence

Contributory negligence

Comparative fault

Assumption of risk

Defences to Negligence

Abnormally dangerous activities

Wild animals

Strict products liability

Manufacturing, design, warning defects

Strict Liability & Products

Defamation

Invasion of privacy

Misrepresentation

Interference with business relations

Nuisance

Other Torts