MPT & NextGen tasks
A Real Workspace, a Real Clock, a Real Grade.
Performance tasks are the one component you can pass on skill rather than memory — and the one almost nobody practises enough. AccelaStudy® AI Bar gives you the split-pane workspace, the 90-minute clock, and a grade on the two things graders actually score.
Unlimited submissions · Legacy MPT and NextGen tasks both included
What it is
Closed Universe. Ninety Minutes. Produce Something.
You are handed a File and a Library and told to write a specific document for a specific reader. Everything you need is in front of you and nothing outside it counts. There is no rule to have memorised and nowhere to hide if you cannot organise under pressure.
The task
A memo from a supervising attorney telling you exactly what to produce, for whom, and what to leave out. Following it precisely is worth more points than anything clever you do afterwards.
The File
The facts — correspondence, transcripts, notes, contracts. Some of it matters, some of it is there to be recognised as irrelevant and left alone.
The Library
The law, supplied to you — cases and statutes, sometimes from a fictional jurisdiction. Your job is to read it correctly and apply it, not to remember it.
The workspace
Everything Side by Side, Like the Real Thing
Practising a performance task by scrolling a PDF and typing in a separate window trains a skill you will not use. The workspace puts the task memo, the File, the Library, and your answer where they belong — all visible, one clock.
Performance task — persuasive brief
Memorandum
To: Applicant · From: Supervising Partner
Draft the argument section of our brief in opposition. Argue both grounds. Do not include a statement of facts — I will add it.
Use only the authorities in the Library. Address the strongest counter-argument on the second ground; do not concede it.
I. The notice provision was satisfied.
The agreement requires written notice within thirty days. The letter of 14 March satisfies both elements…
II. Waiver does not apply on these facts.
Returned with your grade
Both grounds argued and the statement of facts correctly omitted. The strongest counter-argument on ground two was not addressed as instructed.
Authority applied accurately. Two Library cases carried the argument; the third was cited without being used, and one File document that cut against you went unmentioned.
The rubric
Graded on the Two Things Graders Score
Did you do what you were told to do, and was the thinking any good. Everything else is a proxy for one of those two.
Task compliance
The document asked for, addressed to the reader named, covering the points listed and omitting the ones excluded. Candidates lose more here than they expect — writing a memo when a brief was asked for costs points no amount of analysis recovers.
Quality of analysis
Whether you used the Library rather than cited it, whether you engaged the facts that hurt you, and whether the structure lets a busy reader find your argument. The feedback names which authority you under-used and which document you walked past.
Where the points actually went
Both scores come back broken down, not as a single impression. You can see the difference between a task you organised badly and a task you organised well but under-argued — two very different problems with two different fixes.
Then do another one
Unlimited, like the essays. The fastest way to stop losing task-compliance points is to be told you lost them four times in a week — which is only possible when submitting costs nothing.
Where to spend your hours
The Most Winnable Points on the Exam
Every other component rewards knowledge you have to build over months. This one rewards a procedure you can learn in a fortnight — and then it keeps paying.
- Nothing to memorise. The law is handed to you. A candidate who is behind on doctrine can still score well here, which makes it the highest-leverage place to practise when time is short.
- The failure modes are mechanical. Misreading the task, running out of clock, burying the argument, ignoring the bad facts. Every one of them is a habit, and habits respond to repetition with feedback.
- It transfers. NextGen keeps applied, closed-universe tasks at the centre of the exam. Time spent here is not time spent on a component that is about to be retired.
- Almost nobody practises enough. A course that can only mark a handful of written pieces has to spend them somewhere, and performance tasks are usually where the allowance runs out first.
One honest caveat. Machine grading is consistent and instant; it is not a bar grader’s judgement about your prose. What it does reliably is catch the mechanical failures — the instruction you skipped, the authority you did not use, the document you missed — which is where performance-task points are actually lost.
Performance Task Questions
Does the clock actually run?
Are these legacy MPT tasks or NextGen tasks?
How many can I do?
Can I practise on a tablet or a phone?
What if I run out of time mid-answer?
Is it graded the same way every time?
Practise the Component Everyone Under-Practises
Unlimited performance tasks in a real split-pane workspace, graded on compliance and analysis. Launching December 2026 at $299/mo.
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