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Originally Posted by misericordia  Hey everyone,
thanks for giving me helpful advices. I guess I should keep doing law, because as Lara said, law would open up more opportunities and it'd be useful (because I'm hoping to study forensic psychology) Studying law makes me feel like I'm incompetent (today the lecturer told me that my practice exam response was like a 'fruit salad') but I know if I quit now I'd feel pretty bad about running away from it all, so yeah... I just hope that I don't fail much law units... |
Re: the exam response being fruit salad, here are some tips I learnt.
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Headings are your best friend, use them in assignments and exams, it helps you structure your response and helps the tutor fingure out where you are going. If its a hypothetical/problem question you are doing give each issue a new heading.
2. Roadmapping: this works in essays, hypotheticals and moots. Tell the reader how you intend to answer the question.
E.g. This paper will examine the suitability of the doctrine of confidence as a protection of privacy by examining the history of the doctrine of confidence, then looking to the current issue in Australia and finally looking to the experinces in other jurisdictions
3. Problem questions should be structured in the following way:
Identify issue
State the law + Cite Authority
Apply law to the facts
Conclusion
If you do this for each issue your response will be more structured.
Good luck! and don't worry, my first problem question I structured it by dealing with duty of care for each of the cases, then breach, then damage...it was all over the place.