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 Waters — an attorney adviser with the Social Security Administrations’ Office of Disability and Adjudication Review in Dallas who passed the test last July — some questions about taking the bar exam. Following are Waters’ emailed tips for examinees, edited for length and style.