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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

Survive Law
Jun 12, 20152 min read


Using Flash Cards for Law Exam Revision
If it were possible, I would marry flash cards. I love them that much! Many of us used them in primary school to learn vocabulary and times

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May 19, 20154 min read


How to Make a Study Timetable for Exams
Uh-oh. It’s that time of semester. You’ve spent a little too much time watching re-runs of How I Met Your Mother and now exams are only...

Survive Law
May 5, 20153 min read


Taking the plunge into postgrad study
Do you want to attend another graduation and wear an even fancier robe? Do you want to explore more specific areas of the law than just the

Survive Law
May 5, 20152 min read


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

Survive Law
Mar 25, 20153 min read


“I’ll do it later...”: How to Stop Procrastinating
“Being a good law student is 3% talent, 97% not being distracted by the Internet.” Okay, so I’ve adapted a quote that was originally about w

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Mar 19, 20152 min read


How to Make the Best Law Lecture Notes of All Time
Sometimes you leave a lecture with the impression that very few of the important points raised in class have ended up in your notes. We'

Survive Law
Mar 17, 20154 min read


Organised Chaos – Keeping Everything Together
Although you could easily avoid that stressful last-minute scramble to complete your constitutional law essay, you're about as likely to

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Mar 4, 20154 min read


How to Read 300 Pages in One Week Without Really Trying
"Three hundred pages a day is a serious understatement. At my end of the spectrum, I have to read thousands of pages. Law requires...

Wenee Yap
Feb 26, 20156 min read


How to Be More Productive
Do you feel like you've been coasting? Has discipline been eluding you? Do you get the sense that you lose a lot of study time, although

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Feb 18, 20153 min read


Me v My Degree Structure
The course structure for a law degree sometimes seems like a strategy board taken straight from the most confidential vault at the Pentagon.

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Feb 11, 20152 min read


Studying Law with a Toddler
Last semester, I embarked upon my return to university to complete my law degree. When I left, I was twenty-something, foot-loose and fancy-

Survive Law
Dec 12, 20143 min read


Statutory Interpretation Tips
An excruciatingly hefty proportion of your law degree depends on your skills of statutory interpretation. It is this skill you should feel m

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Nov 11, 20142 min read


Part Time, Smart Time
Once you start your degree, there is no denying that most of us come to feel chained to the expected graduation date our universities give u

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Oct 23, 20142 min read


How to Study for a Closed Book Exam
I’m terrible at remembering names, and I’m even worse when it comes to numbers – and a closed book exam means memorising lots of case...

Survive Law
Oct 22, 20145 min read


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...

Wenee Yap
Oct 14, 20144 min read


Witness Examination Tips
Trying out witness examination for the first time can be intimidating. You're there to either make or break the witness, with only your

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Oct 8, 20143 min read


Tips from your Tutor: How to Write the Perfect Law Essay Introduction
After reading the first few sentences of a law essay, most markers will start to formulate an idea of the mark range. If they start with a C

Marie Hadley
Sep 17, 20142 min read


How to Write a Case Note
Central to writing a good case note is developing your ability to distil the key facts and ratio decidendi and capture all of this in a few

Wenee Yap
Sep 10, 20144 min read


Have you heard about the lumberjack?
Some of the best advice that I’ve received as a student was delivered to me in a rather surprising way. I was in a particularly poor state l

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Sep 9, 20142 min read
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