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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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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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Marie Hadley
Aug 27, 20143 min read
Tips from your Tutor: 10 Ways to Improve your Problem Solving Assignment
As a marker, I’ve noticed that students of all year levels tend to make the same types of mistakes when it comes to answering hypothetical q
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Survive Law
Aug 7, 20142 min read
Tips for Writing a Reflective Assignment
Reflective assignments: you either love them or loathe them. I fall into the second category. When I received my first reflective assignment
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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
Apr 22, 20144 min read
The Art of Advocacy: Twenty Tips for your First Court Appearance
I have had the immense good fortune to work as a bench clerk for numerous Magistrates hearing thousands of cases across the summary jurisdic
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Survive Law
Apr 14, 20143 min read
Five Tips for Writing Awesome Assignments
We have come to the time of semester where most students are planning on getting their assignments under control before the downhill run to
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Survive Law
Apr 8, 20143 min read
How to Find the Ratio Decidendi
Finding the ratio decidendi of a case has to be one of the trickiest skills to master at law school.
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Survive Law
Mar 28, 20142 min read
Referencing Tips
Challenging assignments are the norm in law school, and we can’t afford to be losing marks over something as simple as referencing. Every co
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Survive Law
Mar 16, 20144 min read
Five Tips for Keeping Sane during another Year of Law School
A new year of law school means great things: crisp new stationery, new people with fresh brains to pick, and new 9am lectures to not attend.
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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
Nov 6, 20132 min read
What to do when things go Wrong at Exam Time
So the worst has happened. Your dog has died, your partner has deserted you, or your employer has decided that your services are no longer n
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Survive Law
Oct 28, 20132 min read
Ten Tips for Better Sleep
When you’re busy studying for exams, it’s easy to neglect your sleep needs, but staying up late to listen to lecture podcasts only makes it
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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 13, 20132 min read
Surviving a Terrible Exam Timetable
It's halfway through the semester. If you're the average law student, you're probably a bit behind on the readings, you have bar
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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
Sep 24, 20133 min read
Tips for New Mooters
As good as I am at completely disregarding the very real risk of life threatening impending doom, it has been no match for the daunting mome
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Survive Law
Sep 17, 20132 min read
Tips for Surviving Night Classes
While law students who attend night classes may be jealous of those who have the luxury of going to classes during the day and are able to g
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