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Working Hardly: Law School Ailments
Law school ailments. Although you probably won’t find these in a medical book, you’ve probably experienced them at some stage during your la
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Survive Law
Jul 3, 20121 min read
The Results are in…
Finally! It’s the end of semester, and you’re revelling in those magical days between the end of exams and the release of results. You’ve re
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Survive Law
Jun 19, 20122 min read
Why you get Sick After Exams
It seems like Murphy’s Law in action. The second you finish exams (and get your life back) you come down with the flu. In reality, post-exa
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Survive Law
Jun 9, 20122 min read
Five Law Student Exam Personalities
Law students may be an odd bunch during semester, but exams take it to a whole new level. Here are a few of the law student types I’ve met a
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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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Marie Hadley
Jun 3, 20122 min read
Sentenced to Study
You have been charged with ‘omission to study all semester,’ and the Prosecution appears to have a significant amount of evidence against yo
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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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Survive Law
May 25, 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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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
Mar 6, 20122 min read
Law school study avoidance traps
When it comes to being good students, we’re all guilty of telling ourselves that we’ll ‘get around to it’. For most of us, these traps are v
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Survive Law
Nov 22, 20111 min read
Exam-Inspired Haikus
Here at Survive Law, we know hundreds of ways to wile away the long hours of STUVAC. Our current procrastination method of choice is...
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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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Survive Law
Dec 23, 20102 min read
How to deal with less than ideal marks
Now that exam results have been released, it is inevitable that some of us are disappointed with our marks. That shouldn’t be an excuse us t
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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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