Which NCA elective exam is better to write?

Which NCA elective exam is better to write? Property, contracts, civil procedure, torts, tax, commercial?

This is an excellent question and the answer will vary depending on your objective. For example, some students may wish to simply choose the ‘easiest’ elective. However, figuring out which of the exams are ‘easy’ is not necessarily clear or easy to do as the level of difficulty can be an entirely subjective experience. Students who enjoy a particular subject, may find the content easier to study than a subject they dislike. For this reason, we suggest you choose an objective criteria to narrow down the subject of interest.

Pick an area of law that you wish to practise some day.

If there’s a specific area of interest, why not learn that subject now? You may find that you don’t actually like the subject and it will save you a lot of headache down the road.

Pick a subject that may advance your preparation for the bar exams.

If you’re writing the Ontario barrister and solicitor exams or the BC bar exams or perhaps you’re taking CPLED, choose topics that overlap the content in those exams. For example, the Ontario barrister exam has a very large section on Civil Litigation. You can cover much of this subject in the NCA civil procedure exam.