About a week after the California State Bar refused to allow a disabled law student to take the bar exam, claiming registration problems, the student received last-minute approval for the test on Monday from the State Supreme Court.

The student, Sara Granda, graduated from the University of California, Davis, law school in May and has been cramming for the big test ever since, while also arranging accommodation for her handicap. Ms. Granda was paralyzed from the neck down after an automobile accident in July 1997, and breathes with the help of a ventilator. She earned her degree with the help of state-paid aides, including one who took dictation during classes.

She completed the complex negotiation with the state bar over the accommodation for the test, but this month, the bar told her that she had not properly registered by the June 15 deadline and could not take the test, which begins Tuesday.

The online registration for the exam requires that the approximately $600 fee be paid for with a credit card. The state paid Ms. Granda’s fee as part of her disability support, a fact that she said she had confirmed with the bar. But Ms. Granda, who is 29, lives on disability benefits and has no credit card, and so the application was not processed.

The case, which has been followed closely by The Sacramento Bee, had drawn the attention of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who sent a letter to the Supreme Court on Monday.

“The system needs to be flexible enough to accommodate extraordinary individuals like Sara Granda,” Mr. Schwarzenegger wrote. “I hope that you allow Ms. Granda a chance to achieve the goal that she has pursued with such incredible devotion.”

The court’s order was made without explanation.

Gail Murphy, a bar association official, said applicants whose fees were paid by a state agency normally asked for the forms on paper and could arrange for the association to bill the agency. The law governing the exam, Ms. Murphy said, “does not give us discretion to accept applications past the deadline.”

Speaking on Monday from her apartment, where an aide was helping her study, Ms. Granda said she wanted desperately to get on with her new career.

“I’m sick of being on public assistance,” she said, adding that she would rather be a taxpayer than a tax recipient.

“I want to work,” she said. “To have this hinge on something so trivial seems crazy.”

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