Jessica Wynn

She was rushed to the hospital.

But what shocked people wasn't just the medical emergency.

It was that according to everybody there, you can verify this with your cousin, the exam wasn't stopped.

And students were told to just keep working while CPR was happening just a few feet away from them.

Yeah.

And the incident triggered outrage across the legal community.

But it did force the New York State Board of Law Examiners to say it was reviewing its procedures.

I don't know if anything actually changed.

But it fueled a lot of calls for test reform.

The clock should stop argument, asking whether any tests should continue when someone's life is on the line.

But the pressure is immense.

There might be some people in the room who'd be pissed if the test was stopped.

So it goes both ways.

But severe test anxiety, it even qualifies as an actual anxiety disorder.

And students with diagnosed anxiety, they can sometimes get accommodations like extra time or a separate testing room, more breaks if they have documentation from a psychiatrist.

Yeah, the evaluation itself can be hundreds of dollars.

So once again, wealthier students have an advantage.

The test prep industry doesn't help.

They sell materials full of this motivational content, but they don't actually address the root causes of the anxiety, which is the high stakes nature of the test itself and all this systemic pressure around it.

Oh, yeah, there's tons of research, and the evidence is pretty clear on what works.