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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

Survive Law
Jun 1, 20124 min read


The Most Important Minutes: Planning your Time in Exams
I believe that the most important minutes of the exam are the first 15 minutes and the last 15 minutes. These are the crucial moments when y

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May 29, 20123 min read


How to Live in the Library: A Law Student’s Guide to Coping in Silence
With exams approaching, the inevitable cramming sessions are just around the corner. While you can always study at home, university librarie

Survive Law
May 27, 20122 min read


Pre-Exam Procrastination
Finals are coming up so procrastination is inevitable. There’s the usual procrastination on Facebook, and reading completely irrelevant worl

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May 25, 20122 min read


Assignment Advice from Your Marker
I recently finished my law degree and crossed over to the ‘dark side,’ working at a university and marking assignments, essays and exams.

Survive Law
May 24, 20122 min read


How to Prepare for Exams in Four Weeks
So it’s about four weeks until the start of exams and you’re four weeks behind on readings? Don’t panic! Your fate is not yet sealed. Here a

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May 17, 20122 min read


Study Tips and Tricks for Exams
Here are some of my friends' practical and unorthodox study tips...

Survive Law
May 16, 20122 min read


Getting Admitted: Practical Legal Training, Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice and Traineeships
Perhaps you've seen final year law students or recent graduates wandering around muttering acronyms like PLT and GDLP. At some stage ev

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May 15, 20122 min read


How to write an answer guide for law exams
Walking in to my first substantive law exam, I was sure I was ready. I had a painstakingly-prepared set of notes that covered every principl

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May 14, 20122 min read


4 Grammar Mistakes You Should Stop Making
As law students we spend most of our time occupied with reading and writing and our future careers will be solely concerned with deriving me

Survive Law
May 9, 20123 min read


Going Global: Should I go on International Exchange?
My study exchange adventure took me to University of Lapland, Finland in 2011. When I got home I signed up to tell other students at my univ

Survive Law
May 4, 20123 min read


Working into the Ground
Law school often reminds me of the theory of natural selection - a survival of the fittest where the beneficial traits include an irrational

Survive Law
Apr 17, 20122 min read


Top 5 Things That Your Law Tutor Hates
At long last we've found a law tutor willing to tell us what they love and hate about our classroom antics and approaches to assignments

Survive Law
Apr 9, 20126 min read


Playing Catch Up
There are undoubtedly times in a law degree where you are bound to get behind. You might be sick for a week, or you might have a motivation

Survive Law
Apr 8, 20122 min read


The Mid-Semester Slump
The frenetic work ethic borne from having four assignments due in the same week hasn’t kicked in yet. You know it can’t last; you know that

Survive Law
Apr 3, 20123 min read


Finding Study Life Balance
It took me a while to notice how depressed I actually was. When I burst into tears sitting at my computer for third time in a week, I looked

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Apr 1, 20123 min read


Single vs. Double Degrees
Should you do a straight law degree or a double degree combining law with another discipline? Just like a Constitutional Law exam, there are

Survive Law
Mar 29, 20122 min read


Make Your Class Presentations First Class
“According to most studies, people’s number one fear is public speaking. Number two is death....

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Mar 28, 20122 min read


QUIZ: Should you be studying right now?
Fellow law students, I know. I know! The thought of someone questioning your time management and commitment sends you into a frenzy of seat

Survive Law
Mar 18, 20122 min read


How to Stay on Point
So you're back to the law student grind, forced into another year of textbook serfdom. Or maybe you have just begun your illustrious stu

Survive Law
Mar 14, 20125 min read
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