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I had my Administrative Law exam this morning - and it was horrible!
The worst part was that I knew all the answers but due to some spectacularly bad time management on my part couldn't get them all out.
The exam was worth 100%.
If I get a bad mark not only will that be bad in itself, but because of the wacky way law honours marks are given it could affect the whether I get 1st/2nd class honours.
My only consolation is that everyone else seems to have had the same problem. Roll on the bell curve!
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Never underestimate the stupidity of your classmates.
If you're tops in your class and other people had similar problems with the race horse exam, I'm sure you'll manage to pull off that A. Good luck. Posts: 1592 | Registered: May 2000
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I'm sorry your exam went badly. If it's any help, my first law final went badly this semester, but they improved from there on and by the last one I did really well. But bleh, I hate that feeling - specially when you still have others to study for.
I learnt that for the purposes of calculating the law average for one's honours marks, the lowest two semester subjects don't count. Which is a great relief - even if I did do really badly, it won't affect my honours grade.
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imogen, how wretched. Sounds like you had some good news after all. Hang in there -- it's just a series of hoops, and once you are through, you won't have to worry about them any more.
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imogen, you probably did better than you think. I'm glad the pressure's off, though.
Andrew was telling me about a law school exam he had - he finished it and went to the registrar and asked what happens if you fail a course. He ended up getting a "B."
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I've had one more exam, which went ok. 3 hours of frantic scribbling on civil procedure is never going to be an overly enjoyable experience, but it could have been far far worse.
Constitutional Law tomorrow (exams on Satuday - ), Commercial Practice, Conveyancing and Drafting on Monday (ungraded pass/fail unit - easy) and then I am done for this year.
I hate law exams. Granted, I only did a two-year paralegal course at a community college. However, the director of the program, who taught several of the classes I had to take, seemed to think that he was teaching at Harvard Law School. Translated: He didn't cut anyone any slack, and the exams were substantive and tough. Tough enough that I still suggest to anyone I meet here locally who is planning on law school that they go over to the the CC and take his two semesters of legal research and writing for a good head-start on their law-school comrades.
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), Commercial Practice, Conveyancing and Drafting on Monday (ungraded pass/fail unit - easy) and then I am done for this year.
