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    How I Bounced Back From Failing a Unit
    Survive Law
    • Dec 18, 2016
    • 2 min

    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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    Exam results feels
    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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    Experiences in applying for a re-mark
    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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    Tips and Tricks to Improve Your Marks This Semester
    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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    Controlling mental monsters
    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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    Do your marks really matter after law school?
    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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    The Law of Diminishing Marks
    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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    Dealing with Exam Failure
    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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    Academic Kidnapping: Plagiarism and how to Avoid it
    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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    Referencing Tips
    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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    How to get over a Bad Exam
    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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    Law's not a competition but I'm winning
    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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    Repeating a Subject
    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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    Dealing with Disappointing Marks
    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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    Re-Mark: Appealing Assignment and Exam Grades
    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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    The Results are in…
    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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    Didn’t get the grade you wanted? Approaching Lecturers and Appealing Marks
    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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    When Does a Little bit of Law School Competition Become too Much?
    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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    How to deal with less than ideal marks
    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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    The Sky is Falling: Failing, Academic Appeals and Plagiarism
    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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