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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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Survive Law
May 7, 20152 min read
Law Student Undercover: The Pros and Cons of an Online Degree
I’ve always wondered what life would have been like as an online learner, contemplating discussions in student forums or listening to...
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Survive Law
May 5, 20153 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...
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Survive Law
May 4, 20152 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
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Survive Law
Mar 24, 20153 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
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Survive Law
Mar 24, 20153 min read
The Paperless Law Student
Better technologies are driving a big push for law firms and courts to become paperless, and are also changing the way universities are...
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Survive Law
Mar 19, 20152 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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Survive Law
Mar 16, 20154 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'
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Survive Law
Mar 4, 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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Wenee Yap
Feb 26, 20156 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...
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Survive Law
Feb 18, 20153 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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Survive Law
Feb 11, 20152 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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Survive Law
Feb 4, 20152 min read
Dealing with a Deferred Exam
There are times during uni when a medical problem or personal circumstances may prevent you from sitting an exam. When that happens, you...
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Survive Law
Nov 11, 20142 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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Survive Law
Oct 22, 20145 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...
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Wenee Yap
Oct 14, 20144 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...
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Survive Law
Oct 8, 20143 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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Marie Hadley
Sep 16, 20142 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
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Wenee Yap
Sep 9, 20144 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
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Wenee Yap
Aug 27, 20144 min read
Using IRAC to Answer Problem Solving Questions
IRAC stands for Issue-Rule-Application-Conclusion, and like a soapbox salesman with a miracle cure, IRAC boasts a very appealing claim: to p
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