Experience suggests that many students reach a point of diminishing returns a few days before the exam, and not all experts are preoccupied with making sure students are doing a lot of MBE work a week before the exam. Similarly, students should outline essays and other exams rather than write them out entirely in the week before the exam. Because students spend much of their previous work developing and sharpening skills, by the week before the exam they are ready to memorize material and concentrate on their physical and emotional health. The most knowledgeable and skilful applicant will under perform if he or she doesn't get plenty of good rest the week before the examination. Often, it's useful for bar applicants to take more time to exercise during the last week of their preparation, even if that only means taking the family dog out for longer walks than usual.
Many students get better rest after they have worked away some of their excess nervous energy.
Night owls should reorient their schedules the week before the exam, so they are prepared to do their best at nine or ten in the morning. Finally, the week before the exam is a good time to lean away from the processed sugar and caffeine, particularly late in the day. It is very important that a bar applicant feel like taking the bar examination when it's time to start writing or picking MBE choices. This is the wrong time to try to resolve profound interpersonal conflicts, and it's the wrong time to pick fights. It's sensible to recognize, however, that there is a significant emotional or spiritual element at the root of a poised performance on the bar exam, and to act accordingly.