3 weeks to the bar exam is a good time to evaluate how you are doing. You have enough time to now pinpoint your weak areas and enough time to change your schedule if you feel you’re spinning your wheels. Consider this day your line in the sand.
Schedule
By now you should have done several hundred multistate questions, at least 10 state essays and at least 5 performance tests.
If you haven’t done it, get busy. Change your schedule if you need to, work on your weak areas and keep testing.
Make sure you are absolutely on exam time. If you are like some of my students who study all night, stop it today. Get up at 6 am or 7 am and start studying at 9 am until 12 pm, with no breaks, then study from 1 pm to 4 pm, with no breaks. Then go do your exercise, take a nap, eat, relax and, if you think you need it, do a more relaxed evening session.
Nerves
Don’t pretend you’re not nervous. We know you are, so just accept it. Accept that it’s okay to be nervous. Channel that nervous energy properly by attacking your study schedule and transform it into confidence.
One of the most important things to do during this 3 week period is not to doubt your abilities. You can pass this bar and you know it.
Take Time Off
You have been studying hard for the last month. Now that it’s almost end game, you can take a few hours off. As I said above, if you feel good about your knowledge, take the evenings off. Don’t goof off, but you will start to wind down the studying in anticipation of resting and having enough brain power left for the bar exam. You do not want to be overly tired for the bar exam. This is the time to take an occasional few hours off.
Keep those Distracting People Away
In prior blogs, I’ve talked about those districting people in your personal life, but I have one more. I have found that there are a group of toxic law students in every law school that try to distract their fellow law students that have been studying hard. Those toxic law students haven’t studied as hard as you have and they’re going to be a detriment to you. They’re going to be freaking out and if you listen to them panicking and re-analyzing rules you already have mastered, they’re going to make your question your own confidence and freak you out too. Those are the benign ones, but others are more lethal. There was one student in my school last year who tried to get people to ditch their work to go play golf with him. Then on the day of the exam, he was walking around asking about the elements of negligence, or some other such nonsense. Of course, he failed the bar exam and apparently wanted others to fail with him. Stay away from those people.
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