In Florida. Starts at 9 am (though we have to be there by eight for security/housekeeping purposes). Right now I’m sitting in my hotel room alternating between last minute cramming and waiting for it to be seven o’clock so I can meet my classmates for dinner.
There are two three hour sessions tomorrow, then two more on Wednesday. After the last session on Wednesday I am hopping on a friend’s boat (which she is obligingly parking right outside the convention center where the exam is) and getting blind drunk. That’s the plan, anyway. People tell me I’ll be too tired to do more than sip a beer and go home.
I probably won’t check back in on this thread until after tomorrow’s session, but we’ll see. Last minute nerves are kicking in and the SDMB is always something of a comfort.
Good luck. As a “veteran,” let me just tell you that, odds are, there WILL be a question or two where you either don’t know the answer, or are extremely unsure. Don’t worry about it. Remember, you aren’t shooting for 100% so don’t let it rattle you.
We always joked that any score that wasn’t just “barely passing,” means that you wasted time studying.
On the essay part, the “right” answer is less important than the process used to get there. Even if you don’t remember much about a subject, you can still get part score for analyzing relevant parts of the fact pattern.
I strongly suspect that the after party will be less exciting than one might expect. That’s ok.
Now put your books away, watch some TV or surf the internet for a bit, relax, and get a good night’s sleep.
Back in the early 50’s, when my mother took the two-day exams for becoming a registered nurse, she said some folks stayed in the night in between and studied. Mom was a serious student but said she figured if she didn’t know it by then, she wasn’t going to get anything out of cramming. So she and some friends went out to eat and had a couple of beers. And she doesn’t even drink much!
What I always tell students is believe in your work. If you’ve done the work, then you’re ready, and you’ll do fine. I find believing in your work helps bring what you know to come to your mind.
I hope you do well!!
I’m sure you’ll pass so do you plan to go corporate or criminal?
Agreed. Don’t be one of those guys hovered over your books until 3am or cramming during breaks tomorrow. You have prepared well and are ready for this. Trying to learn even more right now will only add unneeded stress.
And after the first essay tomorrow, don’t listen to the dick that is telling everyone that they missed a key point and failed the essay. Nobody ever liked that guy anyways.
No more studying. And that includes tomorrow night.
Hope the first day is going well. Tonight, take it easy. There isn’t much more you can learn tonight that you haven’t learned already.
About 15 years ago I took New York for the first two days then headed over to Jersey to take that one on day 3. When that ended, I got a ride to Hoboken & took the train back to my apartment in NYC. That night I couldn’t really do anything. I sat on my couch, had a beer (maybe two, but that’s it), and stared mindlessly at the TV. I was really tempted to go over to my desk and run through a bunch of multi-state prep questions, as had been my habit for the 3-4 weeks leading up to the test.
That weekend I hung out with a bunch of people who hadn’t just taken the bar, and realized I couldn’t carry on a conversation with any of them. The only thing I had in my mind to talk about was everything I had been studying. Yeah, I was the life of the party for a while.
Time to change it.