Score your essay. In minutes.
Pick a CA bar essay topic, paste your draft, and get a calibrated 1–6 score plus the four-criterion breakdown. Grader targets under three minutes; the rubric is the same one the State Bar examiners use, written into the prompt.
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Rubric
The four-criterion CA bar rubric.
Every submission is graded against the four criteria the State Bar of California uses — same scale, same weights, same expectations. The grader returns each criterion on its own 1–6 line, plus the averaged overall.
Criterion 01
Issue-Spotting
Did you spot the legal issues the fact pattern plants, including the CA-specific overlay where the subject demands it?
Criterion 02
Knowledge of Law
Did you state the controlling rule accurately, including any CA-specific variation (e.g., CA Rules of Professional Conduct for PR)?
Criterion 03
Application / Analysis
Did you apply the stated rule to the specific facts, reaching a conclusion for each issue and using IRAC in each subsection?
Criterion 04
Conclusion / Clarity
A clear per-issue conclusion, organised prose, structure signposted so a tired grader can find each component.
Turnaround
~3 min
Inside the post-submit window — usually inside a minute for a 1,500-word draft.
Calibration
1–6
The bar examiners’ scale. The median CA bar essay lands around a 4.
Topics
11
The canonical CA bar essay list, plus Community Property where CA-specific law bites.