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In my 20 years of coaching students to pass the California Bar Exam, I have noticed an unfortunate pattern. Students will spend hundreds of hours memorizing the Rule Against Perpetuities or the nuances of Civil Procedure for the MBE, yet they will treat the Performance Test (PT) as an afterthought.

If you’ve been anywhere near legal Twitter or r/barexam lately, you’ve seen the news: Kim Kardashian says studying with ChatGPT caused her to fail the California Bar Exam.

Whether you are a repeat test taker who is facing nerves from a previous failure, or a first-time taker who has struggled with performance anxiety in the past, you are not alone in facing one of the biggest obstacles to passing the bar: exam room anxiety.