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IV. 1-2 DAYS PRIOR TO THE BAR EXAM PERSPECTIVE:
 | ENJOYMENT. In preparing for the bar exam, it was a thrill to occasionally
get a glimpse of the 'big picture.' |
| Remember, your course work in law school has been over the period of
3-4 years, and in neat, compartmentalized little pieces. For example, on
your Torts I exam in your first year, you were not also expected to spot
contract issues, remedies issues, civil procedure issues, etc. -- but on
the bar exam, you will be. Law School teaches us the particulars about
each subject individually; the bar experience teaches us how to pull all
of those individual puzzle pieces together to form one 'big picture.' I
found this fascinating. |
| SENSE OF ACCOMPLISHMENT. It was not until the last few days before
the exam, that everything finally gelled in my mind. Everything finally
made sense to me. I knew I had worked hard; I had completed my PLAN. |
| BRAIN-POWER. Never forget -- you know more than you think you know.
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| DON'T ALLOW YOURSELF TO BE INTIMIDATED. Honestly, everybody taking
the bar is just as terrified of the bar as you are, and want their lives
back too. |
| PREPARATION. Thorough preparation for the bar before hand will enable
you to experience the "real" bar exam more calmly. You will have
put yourself through the phases of this exam everyday for the past several
weeks. Such thorough, early preparation for the bar will have afforded
you the valuable opportunity of catching your weak spots early with ample
time for improvement. You'll have no cause to be nervous during the "real"
bar exam. |
| THE BAR IS TERRIBLY IMPORTANT, BUT ..... ..... As hard as you will
have worked to study for the bar exam, as much as you will have riding
on successful bar results, and as important as the bar exam is – the
bar exam is not the most important exam of your WHOLE life. Think about
it: to even be a candidate for bar membership, you've had to have survived
greater tests in life than the bar exam experience. Give your absolute
best during your preparation and during the actual exam, then let the
chips fall where they may. |
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