100+ Free NCA Property Law Practice Questions

It is a challenge exam set by the National Committee on Accreditation (NCA), a standing committee of the Federation of Law Societies of Canada. The NCA assesses internationally trained lawyers and Quebec civil-law graduates who want to qualify to practise in a common-law province, and may assign the Property subject. Candidates can satisfy the requirement either by passing this exam or by completing an approved Canadian law school course.

The NCA Property exam is open-book and runs three hours online (the NCA allows an extra hour over the historic two hours for online long-form exams). It consists of 3-4 fact-based essay/short-answer problems, similar to a Canadian law school exam, that test your ability to apply property-law doctrine to problems. The pass mark is 50%. Our 100 multiple-choice questions are knowledge-prep practice to build that doctrine; they are not the format of the actual exam.

The registration fee for each NCA exam, including Property, is $500 CAD plus applicable taxes (effective for exams from April 2025 onward). There is also a one-time NCA assessment fee of $400 CAD plus taxes paid when you first apply. Cancellation, appeal, and the CPLED Legal Research and Writing course carry separate fees.

The NCA Property syllabus is organized around 11 topics: property in context, boundaries of property, possession, common-law estates, Aboriginal title and Indigenous interests, equitable interests, conditional transfers and future interests, leases and licences, shared ownership, servitudes, and priorities and registration. Key Canadian authorities include Tsilhqot'in Nation v BC, Pettkus v Becker, Kerr v Baranow, Soulos v Korkontzilas, Moore v Sweet, Pecore v Pecore, Hansen Estate v Hansen, Highway Properties v Kelly Douglas, and Annapolis Group v Halifax.

This is a Canadian common-law exam, so terminology and authorities are Canadian. It emphasizes the doctrine of tenures and the Crown, the common-law Rule Against Perpetuities, the registry versus Land Titles (Torrens) registration systems with indefeasibility, and Aboriginal title under s. 35 of the Constitution Act, 1982 (Tsilhqot'in). Adverse possession is largely abolished, and positive covenants generally do not run with freehold land (Amberwood). It does not test US-specific doctrines.

Plan roughly 80-150 hours of self-study using the current NCA syllabus and Ziff's Principles of Property Law (the prescribed text), reading the assigned cases on CanLII. Build a strong outline of estates, future interests, the Rule Against Perpetuities, trusts, co-ownership, servitudes, and registration. Because the exam is open-book and problem-based, practice issue-spotting and writing IRAC-style answers under time pressure, and use these multiple-choice questions to confirm you know the rules cold before you write.