It Is Saturday - What Are You Doing To Prepare For The First Day of The Bar Exam?

Today is a work day. You are still testing, somewhere, this morning. Just because the exam is in a few days does not mean that you are not testing in the morning, memorizing in the evening, and working on what you need to travel to the exam site.

1. Testing: You can take a three-hour MBE exam.

2. Testing: You can write six essay exams (30 minutes) or four essay exams (45 minutes) or three essay exams (three hours).

3. Memorize: Say it until you mean it. Remember the phrase in the song, "now, walk it out." I want you to "talk it out." You should be able to recite the document, verbatim, without fail.

4. Review: You are reviewing material - - with a caveat. What materials have you not had a chance to fully grasp and what can you do to understand the basic points about the area of law that you seek to understand.

Yes, I know that there are some other things that you would like to review, but if you have already had an opportunity to review those things, then you should move on to the area of law that you have not had a chance to look at until now.

Do not be ashamed or embarrassed that you have not had the opportunity to look at something that you know you should have looked at before.

Be ashamed that you are not strong enough to recognize that you have work that needs to be done in an area that you don't know, and that you are not man or woman enough to face the fact that you need to look at it.

If you are ashamed of anything, be ashamed of that.

A quote to remind you that you do have time . . . .

If you break your neck,
If you have nothing to eat,
If your house is on fire,
Then you got a problem.
Everything else is inconvenience.

~ Robert Fulghum

5. You can pack later this evening. You can run to the store later. You can get "a few groceries," some other time. You don't have to take any clothes to or get any clothing from the cleaners. That is all irrelevant. Today is a work day. If you have to get something from the pharmacy or something to take with you to the exam, then remember there is an all night drugstore somewhere in your community.

Some folk will want to say, "if I don't know it by now, then I won't know it."

Save those words (if you decide to use them) for the minute you are checking in to the exam, and not one second before.

So, until tonight comes, sit your butt in the library and use this day to the fullest.

A favorite quote . . . .

"It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer."

~ Albert Einstein

Stay in there for the long run.