The items listed in yesterdays post seemed to be a surprise to a lot of you. Let's discuss watches and timers. You're allowed a timer or a watch into the exam. I highly recommend that everyone bring a time piece into the exam.I took the bar exam at the San Mateo location. There are no clocks in the exam room. They give you a one hour warning and a five minute warning. Nothing else. When the one hour mark was called, I was on question 64. I had stupidly forgotten my watch and didn't realize I was that far behind.
Analog watches are the best because they won't unexpectedly start beeping. When digital watches/timers go off in a convention center, it echoes. Imagine that happening with 3,000 stressed out law students. Someone is going to try to find you in the parking lot after the exam.
A trick to use with an analog watch is to set the hands at 9 o'clock when the test begins. By doing so, you know the test session will end at exactly 12 o'clock. This way you don't have to do any in-test subtraction to see how much time you have left!
