Survive Law
How I Bounced Back From Failing a Unit
Receiving results after a hard and stressful exam period may validate the work you’ve done throughout semester. For others, it may be a mixt
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Survive Law
- Jun 8, 2016
- 3 min
Exam results feels
Exam season is here, guys and gals. It’s kinda like raspberry season in the sense that there is a lot of sourness and tears, but unfortunate
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Survive Law
- May 16, 2016
- 2 min
Experiences in applying for a re-mark
When you’ve poured your blood, sweat and tears into an assignment, the last thing you want to see is a disappointing grade scrawled across t
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Survive Law
- Mar 3, 2016
- 2 min
Tips and Tricks to Improve Your Marks This Semester
Okay you got me, there’s absolutely no tricks or easy fixes to getting good marks at Law School. Work hard, turn up to lectures…you know the
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Survive Law
- Oct 26, 2015
- 2 min
Controlling mental monsters
‘It’s too difficult’. ‘I’m not smart enough’. ‘Everybody hates me’. Do any of these thoughts sound familiar? Psychologists call these types
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Survive Law
- Sep 19, 2015
- 2 min
Do your marks really matter after law school?
The reality is, your marks matter – but mainly only to get your foot in the door. This includes clerkships, graduate opportunities at govern
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Survive Law
- Jun 12, 2015
- 2 min
The Law of Diminishing Marks
The law of diminishing marks says that the first few marks in an exam question are also the easiest to achieve. The further you wade into th
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Survive Law
- Jun 30, 2014
- 2 min
Dealing with Exam Failure
You emerge from the exam with a bad feeling in the pit of your stomach. The possibility of failure suddenly feels very real and imminent. Bu
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Survive Law
- Apr 7, 2014
- 3 min
Academic Kidnapping: Plagiarism and how to Avoid it
Plagiarism. The wrongful appropriation of another author’s words, thoughts, ideas or expressions and the representation of them as your own
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Survive Law
- Mar 28, 2014
- 2 min
Referencing Tips
Challenging assignments are the norm in law school, and we can’t afford to be losing marks over something as simple as referencing. Every co
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Survive Law
- Nov 27, 2013
- 3 min
How to get over a Bad Exam
It’s happened to everyone: you study for weeks straight. You summarise, compile, re-write, learn and re-learn your notes. You don’t sleep and you survive on two-minute noodles and Red Bull. It’s the age old tale of law students, and it comes to a head when you walk into the exam room and have two hours to show the examiner that you can remember – ahem, apply – all the law you’ve learnt over the past thirteen weeks. But sometimes, for whatever reason, it doesn’t go to plan, an
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Survive Law
- Apr 7, 2013
- 2 min
Law's not a competition but I'm winning
I’ve never been the most competitive person. I was the kind of kid who abandoned losing card games before the final draw, who sat making dai
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Survive Law
- Feb 26, 2013
- 3 min
Repeating a Subject
I had to repeat a first year subject in my second year. On the first day of uni I arrived at my seminar just in time, with most of the 40 st
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Survive Law
- Dec 12, 2012
- 2 min
Dealing with Disappointing Marks
Over the years I have had my fair share of disappointing marks, and although admittedly I may have shed a tear or two, I have developed a fe
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Survive Law
- Nov 16, 2012
- 2 min
Re-Mark: Appealing Assignment and Exam Grades
Had an assignment or exam come back with a mark well below what you were expecting? If this has happened to you and you believe your work sh
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Survive Law
- Jul 3, 2012
- 1 min
The Results are in…
Finally! It’s the end of semester, and you’re revelling in those magical days between the end of exams and the release of results. You’ve re
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Survive Law
- May 22, 2012
- 2 min
Didn’t get the grade you wanted? Approaching Lecturers and Appealing Marks
Final marks for those assignments that you slaved over are starting to come your way. Sometimes you’re pleasantly surprised, but sometimes y
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Survive Law
- Mar 10, 2011
- 3 min
When Does a Little bit of Law School Competition Become too Much?
Would you ever put a laxative in a peer’s drink just before an exam? Rip out pages from a library book? While most of you would answer no, t
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Survive Law
- Dec 23, 2010
- 2 min
How to deal with less than ideal marks
Now that exam results have been released, it is inevitable that some of us are disappointed with our marks. That shouldn’t be an excuse us t
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Wenee Yap
- May 19, 2010
- 3 min
The Sky is Falling: Failing, Academic Appeals and Plagiarism
So by now, most of your assignments have been handed in, and if you’re really lucky, have been handed back. If the marks you were hoping for
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