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How to Tackle Exams like a Seasoned Pro
Hearing the word “exams” being thrown around is enough to create fear and loathing in the minds of all law students. Add to that other words
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Survive Law
Nov 10, 20152 min read
Exam Templates 101
The law exam problem question is a necessary evil. These questions always involve a factual circumstance where you’re required to advise one
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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
Oct 27, 20143 min read
Eat your way to Great Marks: Exam Time Nutrition
During these frantic weeks before exams, everything that doesn’t directly relate to trying to understand hearsay or the Tasmanian Dam case g
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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
Jul 16, 20143 min read
How to Speed Read
The first thing we all noticed about law school was the readings: hundreds of pages that take hours to get through each week. What if you co
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Survive Law
Jun 5, 20143 min read
Law Exam Dos and Don’ts
When exam panic sets in, you might find yourself feeling a bit uncertain about how you should study or what you should do in the actual test
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Survive Law
Jun 4, 20143 min read
Exam Countdown: Making the most of the Last 24 Hours
I’d be lying if I said that I’ve never crammed the night before or on the day of an exam. Sometimes you get lucky and end up with glowing...
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Survive Law
May 28, 20144 min read
How to Stop Procrastinating
Although law students have a knack for legal things, our real talent is procrastination. We put things off until tomorrow, and if we can avo
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Survive Law
Feb 23, 20142 min read
Off to a Good Start: Staying on Track in the New Academic Year
We all start the new academic year with ambitious goals. We tell ourselves that we will do all of the weekly readings, prepare for seminars
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Survive Law
Nov 12, 20133 min read
Beating the Exam Time Freak Out: 10 Tips for Less Exam Stress
Exam season is the worst time on the law school calendar, and devoting every waking moment you have to revision is definitely not going to m
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Survive Law
Oct 17, 20132 min read
Tips for Improving your Concentration
We all know how it goes. You sit down at your desk, open your subject guide and tell yourself, “I am going to do all my readings, write that
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Survive Law
Oct 12, 20133 min read
A Guide to Revising for your First Law Exams
This semester you’ve been busy socialising, writing assignments 24 hours before they are due, and all of sudden, exams are now on the horizo
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Survive Law
Sep 26, 20132 min read
Tips for Take Home Exams
The first time I found out that I had a take home exam, I breathed a sigh of relief. I figured, how hard could it be, it’s just like a glori
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Survive Law
Jun 12, 20132 min read
Working Hardly: Prayers for Exam Time
Left your study a little too late? You may not have time to cram all that knowledge in, but a little prayer can’t hurt, right?...
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Survive Law
Jun 9, 20132 min read
Confessions of a Study Diva
As I read last week’s article Unleashing the STUVAC Mess Monster about how fashion, food and household cleanliness can sometimes hit a new l
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Wenee Yap
Jun 5, 20133 min read
Advice from your Tutor: How to Prepare for and Answer Different Types of Exam Questions
It’s the final countdown to the examination apocalypse! Fortunately, exam season is swiftly followed by the sleep-away-your-days wonder that
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Survive Law
May 29, 20132 min read
How to Beat Pre-Exam Stress
Despite having committed to being as prepared as possible for an exam, the stress that exams bring can still have an effect on you.
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Survive Law
May 24, 20132 min read
How to Prepare for your First Law Exams
Several weeks into the first year of university and you feel as though you’ve got it all sorted out. You know which lectures you can afford
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Survive Law
May 14, 20133 min read
Amending Law School Mistakes
Somewhere along the way, something went horribly, horribly wrong. The semester began with good intentions: you were going to update your not
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