Survive Law
How to use other people's notes effectively
Bought or borrowed notes are frequently viewed as a miracle on A4, the answer to your pre-exam prayers. Hand-me-down notes can be a huge hel
Survive Law
- Oct 10, 2012
- 3 min
Being a Law Student Without Lectures
Surviving law school basically amounts to surviving the same cycle of lectures, procrastination, assignments, more lectures, study, exams, a
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Survive Law
- Oct 9, 2012
- 3 min
Home vs. Library: Finding a Study Spot
Packing up your books and leaving the distractions of your house, you tell yourself that you’ll study much better in the library at uni....
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Survive Law
- Oct 4, 2012
- 3 min
Coming from Behind: Catching up in Time for Exams
Sometimes the promises made in first week about doing all the readings, starting assignments early and getting to every class just aren’t po
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Survive Law
- Oct 2, 2012
- 3 min
Using iPads and Other Tablets for Study
I have a weakness for the latest and greatest tech products. With my 4.7-inch phone screen, and iPad, I find it quite easy to access my uni
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Survive Law
- Sep 26, 2012
- 3 min
Train your Brain: Memory Tips and Tricks
Here are just a few tips on how to prepare for exams based on what psychology tells us about memory...
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Survive Law
- Sep 25, 2012
- 4 min
Reflections on Writing a Legal Research Thesis
A clever legal argument may sneak up on you some day, and you may be fated to endure the delightful tedium of a research thesis. To write a
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Survive Law
- Sep 15, 2012
- 3 min
Book Review: Getting to Yes by Roger Fisher and William Ury
For anyone just starting out, Getting to Yes by Roger Fisher and William Ury is the negotiation bible.
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Survive Law
- Sep 11, 2012
- 2 min
How to Prepare for a Tutorial at the Last Minute
Needed to catch up on the latest episode of Suits? Participated in a procrastibaking marathon? Spent more than a few minutes giggling at mem
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Survive Law
- Sep 7, 2012
- 2 min
A Lack of Consideration: Dealing with the Challenges of Group Work
Admittedly, there are fewer group assignments in law than in other degrees, but even if you’ve been able to avoid tutorial group presentatio
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Survive Law
- Aug 29, 2012
- 3 min
Ten Ways to Improve your Class Presentations
Remember when it was totally uncool to know how to do stuff on a computer? These days, you’ll be left behind if you don't know how to sh
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Survive Law
- Aug 21, 2012
- 3 min
How to Survive Studying Law by Distance
Studying off campus can be a very appealing option: there are no classes to attend and you can study when it suits you. It sounds pretty cru
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Survive Law
- Aug 18, 2012
- 2 min
My Oxford Experience
In between recovering from final exams and submitting clerkship applications, I spent my winter break completing a short study programme on
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Survive Law
- Aug 8, 2012
- 3 min
Free Online Study Resources
So you still haven’t made it to the uni bookshop, or maybe you’re finding that your new textbook is so confusing that it may as well have be
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Survive Law
- Jul 24, 2012
- 3 min
The Study Contract
Once upon a time, in a galaxy far, far away, two ambitious law students decided to walk down the yel-law brick road..
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Survive Law
- Jul 24, 2012
- 2 min
Options for Buying and Selling Law Textbooks Online
The first week of semester is always expensive. Luckily, there are a number of websites where you can buy discount or secondhand law texts,
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Survive Law
- Jul 19, 2012
- 2 min
Technology in Law Schools
When I first started university back in the early 2000s, bringing your laptop to university was a somewhat rare thing. PowerPoint was someth
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Survive Law
- Jun 19, 2012
- 4 min
How to get Honours in Law
This is an article for all you later-year students currently trying to work out the mysterious world of the law school honours system. Here
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Survive Law
- Jun 6, 2012
- 4 min
How to Survive your First Law Exam
There are a few things I wish I'd known about university exams, particularly those of the law school variety, before I sat them for the
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Survive Law
- Jun 1, 2012
- 4 min
The Law Student Tool Kit
The law student's weapons of choice are usually strong comprehension skills, a keen sense of the broad picture, and a powerful reaction
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