Editor’s note: Pack a jacket and pain relievers, and request a late hotel check-out. Those are just a few of the suggestions that Lisa Waters, a grader for Texas Wesleyan University School of Law’s spring 2012 “Preparing for the Bar Exam” course, has for test-takers sitting for the three-day Texas bar exam, which begins July 24.

Texas Lawyer research editor Jeanne Graham emailed Watersan attorney adviser with the Social Security Administrations’ Office of Disability and Adjudication Review in Dallas who passed the test last Julysome questions about taking the bar exam. Following are Waters’ emailed tips for examinees, edited for length and style.