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How to Make Notes for Open Book Exams
Exam time looms, and you have an open book exam ahead: rejoice! There is a common misconception that open book exams are easier than closed
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Survive Law
Apr 5, 20133 min read
Ways to Bully Yourself Into Studying
To avoid- or, let's be honest here - minimise procrastination, here are a few strategies that I use to bully myself into studying.
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Survive Law
Nov 14, 20122 min read
Need to Concentrate? There’s an app for that!
With all these distractions, no wonder your attention soon begins to wane. Luckily, there are now apps to help your concentration; most of t
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Survive Law
Oct 21, 20122 min read
Staying Motivated in the Lead Up to Exams
Mid-semester break and the week before exams are the times when you’re at your best. After all, it’s easy to find motivation when you really
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Survive Law
Oct 4, 20123 min read
Coming from Behind: Catching up in Time for Exams
Sometimes the promises made in first week about doing all the readings, starting assignments early and getting to every class just aren’t po
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Survive Law
Jun 25, 20124 min read
How to stay motivated for a supplementary exam
Sometimes the universe just hates you and conspires to make your life as difficult as possible. I spent weeks preparing for my exams at the
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Survive Law
Jun 7, 20123 min read
Overwhelmed by Exams
The stresses of law school are most apparent in the lead up to exams. You feel run down, overwhelmed and pushed to breaking point, but you g
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Survive Law
Jun 6, 20124 min read
How to Survive your First Law Exam
There are a few things I wish I'd known about university exams, particularly those of the law school variety, before I sat them for the
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Survive Law
May 29, 20123 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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Head Editor
May 17, 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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Survive Law
May 16, 20122 min read
Study Tips and Tricks for Exams
Here are some of my friends' practical and unorthodox study tips...
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Survive Law
May 14, 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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Wenee Yap
Mar 12, 20123 min read
How much study should I be doing each week?
So it’s Semester 1, and the eager baby law student enquiries have started filtering into my academic inbox: “Can I have full list of the lat
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Survive Law
Nov 3, 20113 min read
Preparing for a Law Exam in 24 Hours or Less
I’ve seen his scenario coming for a few days, but I’ve been busy: other exams, bad television repeats, etc. It’s the day before the exam whe
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Survive Law
Nov 2, 20112 min read
Surviving Back-to-Back Exams
Some years it feels like the exam timetable makers have it in for you. The examination period is nearly a month long, but all your exams are
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Survive Law
Oct 21, 20112 min read
Brain Food for Exam Time
Pre-exam cramming generally means eating whatever you can buy from a vending machine or prepare in under three minutes. But what if procrast
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Survive Law
Oct 20, 20111 min read
Lessons from Exam Insomnia Season
“Sleep is for the weak, not you,” a Newcastle Law Revue video told me once. Approaching law exams means extra late night study and bonus sle
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Survive Law
Oct 8, 20112 min read
The Eight Stages of Exam Preparation
For all our supposed intelligence, most law students struggle to learn from the mistakes of last exam preparation season. Even when we promi
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Survive Law
Sep 20, 20113 min read
Surviving a Take Home Exam
Take home exams have to be my least favourite assessment type. Mostly it’s because they turn your home into an exam room. That said, any exa
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Wenee Yap
Mar 12, 20103 min read
Last-Minute Exam Crams: Don’t Panic
“How is education supposed to make me feel smarter? Besides, every time I learn something new, it pushes some old stuff out of my brain. Rem
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