leaving things till the last minute...a lesson!

rossyl

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I have an exam tomorrow. In order to do this exam i need my statute book. I looked for my statute book today - can I find it? NO.

I now have to travel all the way in just to check my locker. If it's not there well then i'm screwed!! I will have to go in early tomorrow and take out a library copy that obviously i cannot highlight etc.

If i'd of noticed this earlier I could have easily rectified the situation.

What a pain, and lesson learnt. Thankfully it shouldn't be too hard and i onlky have to get about 46%.
 
Please excuse my ignorance, but what's a statute book? Just to be safe could you buy one from a book shop today, is it expensive?
 
Get one from the library, highlight that etc. Then take your own one back when you find it and when they say it's not the right one just shrug and say that's definitely the one you got out. That's assuming you haven't already abused your own one.
 
sounds bad.

i had a real bad last mintue problem a month or so ago. i knew in september last year that my passport only had a few months left so had to renew it. I got all the forms filled them out just need a passport picture thatwas signed.

Now being lazy about those sort of thgins is left it in my cupboard and never dealt with it. now just over a month ago decided to book a holiday to disney that would be in 1 weeks time. All was good until 2 days before i go and i remember that my passport had ran out which meant that i had to cancel the jholiday and rebook for 2 weeks later, and also go to london to get an emergency passport costing me in total £350 which sucked as the holiday was only costing £200
 
Moredhel said:
Get one from the library, highlight that etc. Then take your own one back when you find it and when they say it's not the right one just shrug and say that's definitely the one you got out. That's assuming you haven't already abused your own one.
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rofl that wont work bud. Your forgetting the barcode, security tagging etc.....

What the library will do is charge you for a replacement copy of the book. So the highlighting thing could work if the library book and your copy are the same version.
 
I wasn't, he could just claim it never had them in. If he acts ignorant there's not much they can do, they got the book back after all.
 
just made it in and thankfully it was in my lockers along with various other textbooks i've never seen or used before hahaha!

I was planning on literally stealing it from the library. OR highlighting the crap out of a copy, hiding it, and then taking it out on loan and hoping they didn't realise i defaced it.

The place i'm at produce the book themselves so it wouldn't cost them much.

Anyways at least i found it!!
 
Moredhel said:
I wasn't, he could just claim it never had them in. If he acts ignorant there's not much they can do, they got the book back after all.
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Claim it never had them in??? i sincerely doubt that. Every single book that goes on the shelves is barcoded, security tagged along with multiple other measures. They have to be because they are all entered on an electronic catalogue. So when you take a book out it is scanned so that it shows that it is out on that persons card on the system.

Theres about zero percentage chance that it would have NONE of these.... just doesnt happen. The only books that would maybe have less of these measures (ie isnt barcoded, datestamped, etc) is maybe personal lecturer copies of the book which they lend the library for students to look at. And even then they would most likely be reference in the library only.

So sorry but its ridiculous to say "ohh it didnt have them in but its definitely the libraries book here you go" (yeah i work in a library)
 
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:p

The night before my Medical Law exam I was revising away learning the frickin' statute book, then one of the guys in the year above came by and told me we could take it in :p I was like "WTF? That's easy though...!" Came in useful though as I didn't really need to look at it in the exam, ho-hum!
 
marl said:
Please excuse my ignorance, but what's a statute book?
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semi-pro waster said:
It is a list of statutes for a given topic, so it might be on say Land Law and it lists the related statutes/laws in that area, normally used for law exams. :)
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rossyl said:
I was planning on literally stealing it from the library.
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Are you studying law by any chance? :eek:
 
Tomsk said:
Are you studying law by any chance? :eek:
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Are you surprised that a law student might consider stealing? I thought it was well known that lawyers (or potential lawyers) are amongst the most immoral people you can find. ;)


And yes I finished a degree in law as of a couple of weeks ago. :)
 
Tomsk said:
Are you studying law by any chance? :eek:
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He's on the LPC, hence its an open book exams, except the solicitors account one. They are all open book, and you can write anything and everything into the book for most (but not attach anything), a few you can just highlights and tag the pages. But the pass mark is 50, and even if you think you put in the perfect answer it's hard to get 70, the requirement standard is much higher.
 
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The problem with borrowing a statute book from a library is that somebody else has probably taken it out already.

Being allowed to take a statute book into the exam is a false security. You don't have time to start flicking through pages of statutes in the exam. It's always best to have the main sections in your head.

Never leave a law exam until the last minute! :p
 
I lost my copy of Macbeth the day before my english exam.

Went out, bought another copy and merticulously copied an entire "letts" english book in to it.

Was the worst night of my life..
 
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