Anyone have any tips on how to stay motivated for the bar?

Oh boy do I feel you. 1. Fear.

Remember, if you mess this up, you will come back and have to do it again. Unless you are a masochist, doing 2 or 3 day exams where people around you are fainting, freaking, and reeking of hopelessness is never fun. 2.Professionalism.

If fear does not work, try to think of it as a job. In other words, you are getting paid or compensated for your time, and if you do well, you get a bonus (the right to work as an attorney).3. Puzzle.

If professionalism does not work, consider it as a rubik's cube that you are trying to solve. Consider each question a completely separate universe that is actually FUN for you to solve. And........completely do NOT care about getting the question right or wrong.

Complete indifference allows you to blow past both the easy and the hard without rattling you. That was the way I ended up passing......after missing my first time by 0.7 points.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.