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Ontario bar exam study planner
Most study schedules are somebody else’s plan with your name on it. This one is arithmetic: the real page counts, two reading passes, and your own reading speed. Put in your exam date and it tells you when to start.
Study planner · Both, same sitting · exam Nov 17, 2026One event per day, as a file Google Calendar, Apple Calendar and Outlook all accept. Apple Calendar and Outlook open it directly. In Google Calendar go to Settings, then Import and export.
Both, same sitting: about 16 weeks
1,694 pages read twice is 3,388 pages, over 37, then 33 days. Each pass after the first is faster, because it is recognition rather than comprehension. Plus 14 days of practice questions and a final week kept light.
This plan needs 106 calendar days and you have 57. You are about 7 weeks short. Options, best first: sit one exam this time rather than both, turn a working day into a full study day, or raise your daily pages if that is honestly available. Do not cut the practice days.
| Block | Days |
|---|---|
| 1st passRead everything once, slowly. Do not stop to master anything. You are building a map. | 37 |
| 2nd pass, with practiceFaster read, drilling each subject as you finish it. The most valuable block, and the one usually squeezed. | 47 |
| Final weekWeak areas, your index, sleep. No new material. | 6 |
Why 1,694 and not 2,016: Professional Responsibility and the appendices are the same in both sets of materials. Read them once, early, and they are done for both papers. That is 322 pages you do not read twice. Page numbers in the calendar refer to whichever set the subject belongs to.
Book a fun day every week, and protect it
We strongly recommend it. Pick one day a week and keep it clear, and make it an actual fun day rather than a catch-up day. Burnout is what ends most study plans that fall apart, and it usually arrives somewhere around week six, not at the end. Having something you are looking forward to is what carries you through the days before it. You work hard all week so that you can enjoy that day.
It is marked in the calendar, every week, like any other part of the plan. The arithmetic already assumes you are taking it.
Your calendar
Each study day works on one subject, with the page range from your materials and the size of the day under it. Days marked (1st) are the first read, (2nd) the second. A dot next to the date means a day you are also working, so the target is smaller.
Going away? Click any day below to block it off. A wedding, a long weekend, a week with the family: put them in and the reading moves around them, rather than you quietly falling a week behind in the middle of it. Click a blocked day again to put it back.
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The reasoning behind these numbers is in how long you should study and a realistic study schedule. When the plan says to drill a subject, our subject quiz packs are built for that slot.
Page counts and reading rates are LexPD’s own figures, from preparing candidates for these examinations. They are not published by the Law Society of Ontario, and they are averages: yours will differ, which is why the planner asks for your rate rather than assuming ours. Always check current examination dates with the Law Society directly.