The bar exam is stressful enough without a global pandemic turning life upside-down. Unless you were one of the 1,407 applicants who sat for New Jersey's first-ever remotely administered bar exam in October 2020, it is easy to forget what a mess COVID-19 made of the most consequential test in an attorney's career. The 930 applicants who overcame this formidable challenge received a score with limited portability, by virtue of their lacking the foresight to wrap up law school before a world-historic public health crisis struck. With the July bar exam around the corner (July 26-27), the National Conference of Bar Examiners (NCBE) should retroactively grant successful October 2020 applicants wider reciprocity.