Remedial Law Quiz

Justification for Item Count

The provided excerpt from Rule 1 was analyzed to determine an appropriate number of test items to ensure substantial coverage without excessive redundancy. The analysis yielded the following breakdown:

• Main Sections Analyzed: 6 (Sections 1 through 6)
• Sub-sections with distinct concepts: 3 (Section 3a, 3b, 3c)
• Distinct Legal Concepts Identified: 18
  1. Title of the Rules (Sec. 1)
  2. General applicability to courts (Sec. 2)
  3. Supreme Court's power to provide exceptions (Sec. 2)
  4. Scope: actions & special proceedings (Sec. 3)
  5. Definition of a civil action (Sec. 3a)
  6. Types of civil actions (ordinary/special) (Sec. 3a)
  7. Governing rules for both civil action types (Sec. 3a)
  8. Definition of a criminal action (Sec. 3b)
  9. Definition of a special proceeding (Sec. 3c)
  10. Enumeration of inapplicable cases (Sec. 4)
  11. Exception to inapplicability (analogy/suppletory) (Sec. 4)
  12. Condition for the exception (practicable/convenient) (Sec. 4)
  13. Commencement of a civil action (Sec. 5)
  14. Commencement for an additional defendant (Sec. 5)
  15. Effect of motion denial on commencement (Sec. 5)
  16. Rule of liberal construction (Sec. 6)
  17. Objective of construction (just, speedy, inexpensive) (Sec. 6)
  18. Scope of construction objective (every action/proceeding) (Sec. 6)

Recommended Item Count: Based on the 18 distinct concepts, a baseline of 18 questions was established. To achieve Bar-level difficulty, several complex concepts (e.g., Sec. 4's dual exceptions, Sec. 5's rule on additional defendants) were tested with multiple nuanced items. This resulted in a final count of 24 items, which falls within the specified 20-40 range and provides robust coverage of the material.