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    How to Tackle Exams like a Seasoned Pro
    Survive Law
    • Nov 5, 2017
    • 3 min

    How to Tackle Exams like a Seasoned Pro

    Hearing the word “exams” being thrown around is enough to create fear and loathing in the minds of all law students. Add to that other words
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    Exam Templates 101
    Survive Law
    • Nov 10, 2015
    • 2 min

    Exam Templates 101

    The law exam problem question is a necessary evil. These questions always involve a factual circumstance where you’re required to advise one
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    Geeks United: Tips for a Successful Study Group
    Survive Law
    • Mar 24, 2015
    • 3 min

    Geeks United: Tips for a Successful Study Group

    We all know study groups can produce great results. Working in a group can reduce your workload, provide different perspectives on a given t
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    Eat your way to Great Marks: Exam Time Nutrition
    Survive Law
    • Oct 27, 2014
    • 3 min

    Eat your way to Great Marks: Exam Time Nutrition

    During these frantic weeks before exams, everything that doesn’t directly relate to trying to understand hearsay or the Tasmanian Dam case g
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    Advice from your Tutor: Law Exam Preparation and Technique
    Wenee Yap
    • Oct 14, 2014
    • 4 min

    Advice from your Tutor: Law Exam Preparation and Technique

    As the nightmare of late night study, spent pens and furiously tabbed notes draws to an end, spare a thought, if you will, for the person on the other side of your exam booklet: the examiner. Sure, they may very well be the Devil Incarnate or the Absolute Jerk of Exam Marking. Truth is, us examiners have 2, maybe 3 weeks to wade through hundreds of exam papers in the grand Aristotelian search for meaning in the madness…or just a correct case citation. Or any citation. Please
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    How to Speed Read
    Survive Law
    • Jul 16, 2014
    • 3 min

    How to Speed Read

    The first thing we all noticed about law school was the readings: hundreds of pages that take hours to get through each week. What if you co
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    Law Exam Dos and Don’ts
    Survive Law
    • Jun 5, 2014
    • 3 min

    Law Exam Dos and Don’ts

    When exam panic sets in, you might find yourself feeling a bit uncertain about how you should study or what you should do in the actual test
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    Exam Countdown: Making the most of the Last 24 Hours
    Survive Law
    • Jun 4, 2014
    • 3 min

    Exam Countdown: Making the most of the Last 24 Hours

    I’d be lying if I said that I’ve never crammed the night before or on the day of an exam. Sometimes you get lucky and end up with glowing (but completely undeserved) final marks. Regardless of what the outcome is, cramming sucks and leaves you feeling highly-strung and over-caffeinated the entire time. If that sounds like you, maybe it's time to try something different to your usual eleventh hour panic… Study In the 24 hours before an exam you really shouldn’t be taking in a
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    How to Stop Procrastinating
    Survive Law
    • May 28, 2014
    • 4 min

    How to Stop Procrastinating

    Although law students have a knack for legal things, our real talent is procrastination. We put things off until tomorrow, and if we can avo
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    Off to a Good Start: Staying on Track in the New Academic Year
    Survive Law
    • Feb 23, 2014
    • 2 min

    Off to a Good Start: Staying on Track in the New Academic Year

    We all start the new academic year with ambitious goals. We tell ourselves that we will do all of the weekly readings, prepare for seminars
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    Beating the Exam Time Freak Out: 10 Tips for Less Exam Stress
    Survive Law
    • Nov 12, 2013
    • 3 min

    Beating the Exam Time Freak Out: 10 Tips for Less Exam Stress

    Exam season is the worst time on the law school calendar, and devoting every waking moment you have to revision is definitely not going to m
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    Tips for Improving your Concentration
    Survive Law
    • Oct 17, 2013
    • 2 min

    Tips for Improving your Concentration

    We all know how it goes. You sit down at your desk, open your subject guide and tell yourself, “I am going to do all my readings, write that
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    A Guide to Revising for your First Law Exams
    Survive Law
    • Oct 12, 2013
    • 3 min

    A Guide to Revising for your First Law Exams

    This semester you’ve been busy socialising, writing assignments 24 hours before they are due, and all of sudden, exams are now on the horizo
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    Tips for Take Home Exams
    Survive Law
    • Sep 26, 2013
    • 2 min

    Tips for Take Home Exams

    The first time I found out that I had a take home exam, I breathed a sigh of relief. I figured, how hard could it be, it’s just like a glori
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    Working Hardly: Prayers for Exam Time
    Survive Law
    • Jun 12, 2013
    • 2 min

    Working Hardly: Prayers for Exam Time

    Left your study a little too late? You may not have time to cram all that knowledge in, but a little prayer can’t hurt, right?...
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    Confessions of a Study Diva
    Survive Law
    • Jun 9, 2013
    • 2 min

    Confessions of a Study Diva

    As I read last week’s article Unleashing the STUVAC Mess Monster about how fashion, food and household cleanliness can sometimes hit a new l
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    Advice from your Tutor: How to Prepare for and Answer Different Types of Exam Questions
    Wenee Yap
    • Jun 5, 2013
    • 3 min

    Advice from your Tutor: How to Prepare for and Answer Different Types of Exam Questions

    It’s the final countdown to the examination apocalypse! Fortunately, exam season is swiftly followed by the sleep-away-your-days wonder that
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    How to Beat Pre-Exam Stress
    Survive Law
    • May 29, 2013
    • 2 min

    How to Beat Pre-Exam Stress

    Despite having committed to being as prepared as possible for an exam, the stress that exams bring can still have an effect on you.
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    How to Prepare for your First Law Exams
    Survive Law
    • May 24, 2013
    • 2 min

    How to Prepare for your First Law Exams

    Several weeks into the first year of university and you feel as though you’ve got it all sorted out. You know which lectures you can afford
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    Amending Law School Mistakes
    Survive Law
    • May 14, 2013
    • 3 min

    Amending Law School Mistakes

    Somewhere along the way, something went horribly, horribly wrong. The semester began with good intentions: you were going to update your not
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