A few suggestions

Just a few quick suggestions/tips for anyone who is taking the bar for the first time.

1. Use earplugs: For me these are essential to block out the random noises during the bar (countdown timers going off, chairs shuffling, etc), but, more importantly, to avoid having to listen to the brazen idiots who insist on talking about how they memorized the entire probate code and how they managed to study 20 hours a day. These assholes will also insist on broadcasting to the world how they managed to find and discuss all sorts of random and highly obtuse issues in the essays. Earplugs won’t totally block these people out, but they certainly help. Kmack has another good reason to use earplugs.
2. Time: expect that no portion of the exam will start on-time. More importantly, expect to have very little time between the morning exam and the start of the afternoon exam for lunch. The proctors work at a snails pace and in doing so pretty much ruin any chance of getting the full lunch break.
3. Lunch: Bring one. I ran out of balance bars/cliff bars on the third day, I had to wait in a ridiculously long line to get a sandwich that only made me extremely tired for the afternoon exam. I don’t get hungry when I’m stressed, but I forced myself to eat a couple of balance bars which gave me just enough energy to get through the afternoon without making me tired. Also, if your taking the test in Oakland plan for the fact that there isn’t a lot of quick food options that won’t be swamped with test takers and the business crowd, so plan accordingly.
4. Smoking: If you are a smoker and you know that you desperately crave cigarettes when stressed, go buy the patch or the nicotine lozenges for the exam. They really take the edge off, and I also find that they help maintain my general level of alertness. If you haven’t used either, test them out today, some people can’t stand the lozenges, so make sure you can tolerate them. If you get the patch, take it off a good hour before you go to sleep, as it gives many people extremely vivid nightmares/dreams.
5. Stress: I know I’m supposed to say don’t stress etc. But expect it, we've all invested too much time in this not to. However, if you find yourself stressing during the exam or blanking out, just type anything. One of the model answers online, I forget which one, contains a verbatim recitation of the fact pattern from the exam. It’s pretty clear that the test taker most likely freaked out and just wrote out the facts before moving on to analyzing the exam. I know many people disagree, and argue that you need to be as succinct as possible, and while brevity is of course preferable to barfing on the page, not writing is really the only method guaranteed to fail. The one thing that really surprised me when writing the essays was how many obscure rules and exceptions I found naturally coming to me when reading the fact patterns. Everyone feels that they don’t know anything, but I think you’ll be surprised to find out just how much you know.

Anyway, just my two cents worth, best of luck to everyone!

P.S. N at Clearing the Bar (Exam) has some excellent suggestions as well.