10. Find a Place to Study; Have a 24 Hour Buddy Or Realize You Are On Your Own.

The Fear Factors: Fifteen Reasons Why Applicants Fail The Bar Exam.

A lot of people lose study time because they move from one place to another place to another place. You unpack, repack, and pack up far more times than necessary. Stop it. That is a waste of your time and energy.

It is called a diversion, which is code for, "I don't want to do this." I want to mope around until it is too late (or, so close to it) for me to actually do something about my predicament.

You should make a decision to stop moving around from place to place. If you are still moving around, find a place to work your bar program and stay there.

Time is ultimately, your money. The waste of time is ultimately, your money, too. Stop working at one place for three hours, then another place for two hours.

Please stop packing up & deciding that you should go home.

Decide that wherever you are right now is home.

You are not that tired. You are not that sleepy. Yes, you may not be able to study anymore, but you can outline, right?

Sit Down, Stay Down.

While you are down, stay in touch with that one person that understands you and what you are going through. Hopefully, it is a friend who is sitting for the bar exam with you.

When I studied for the bar, my friend/classmate and I arrived at the library separately, but we rode home every night at midnight together. We studied on different floors, but when we had questions for one another, we shared them.

Once we arrived home, we would spend about 15 minutes chatting up about our day and what we were going to do after the exam.

Sometimes we have people like that in our lives; sometimes we don't. If you do not have a person like that in your life, then it may be likely that you will have to go it it alone.

Alone is not a bad thing. And depending on who you are, you know that you are not really alone.

Nathaniel Brandon wrote a book, "The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem," which of course, is a book that you do not have time to read. After the bar exam, I expect that you might like to read this work before going off to your new world as an attorney.

One of the things Mr. Brandon says, is this: people with high self-esteem are used to working alone. People who work alone know that they need to be alone in order to maximize the outcome of the thing that they want done.

Find a place to study. Stay there. Spend most of the time in the seat, preparing yourself to stay focused for one, three hour period. Stop running to the restroom, or the vending machine. You don't always need more water.

What you need to do is "sip on the law" needed to pass your July 2010 bar exam.