Need Revision Help for Law exams...

Yucca

Yucca

Yucca

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Ok i have my first year law exams in about 3 weeks time. I do contract law, criminal and constitutional and administrative law. I dont know anything! I have been revising and reading stuff for the last two weeks now but im afraid i have started a bit to late!

Are there any particular revision notes that are worth getting? A quick look on amazon shows up "lawcard" but i dont want to spend about £40 and relise there naff.

Any ideas?
 
What notes do you have from your lecturers? I don't know about the English system but in the Scottish system you are usually better going over what your lecturer has given in terms of notes and they will also often recommend you a few books that they will have taken some source material from. Maybe band together with a couple of mates and start up a 'revision club' or similar and I'd also be looking over past papers to see what sort of questions come up regularly.

Besides it is first year law exams, you have loads of time with three weeks left ;)

Sorry I can't offer more help but I've never found the need for revision notes so I can't recommend any. Good luck though :)
 
There is a Nutshell for Contract, Crime and Constitutional law. That's what I used for the first year of uni. Or I can email my notes :)
 
Nutshells are no good really. You are better off putting in the hard work and consolidating all of your notes from throughout the year. Consolidating helps put everything into perspective and helps you to learn cases. Relying too much on nutshells are a bit of a waste imho as they lure you into a false sense of security by spoon-feeding over simplified garbage (or maybe I'm being too harsh on them but I never liked them!) When I was revising, I tried to break each subject up into areas - for example, Contract can be divided into:

  • Offer and Acceptance
  • Consideration
  • Promissory Estoppel
  • Misrepresentations
  • Terms of the contract - incorporation, express/implied etc
  • Exclusion clauses
  • Mistake
  • Frustration
  • Duress, Undue Influence and Unconscionable Bargains
  • Repudiation and Anticipatory Breach
  • Remedies

After dividing the subject, I used flashcards to try and consolidate everything that I needed to know about that area. Writing the flashcards out was probably the best revision as it helped to learn everything. As semi-pro waster says, use your lecture notes - they are probably a useful indication of what areas to cover for the exam.
 
Way I revised was to split it up into areas and summarise all the important cases and make brief sentences on what the key principle is.

Then type up the entire list and spend a week solid memorising. In the end I could recite almost 1000 cases. Seriously if you don't know a **** load of cases you'll be in deep trouble.
 
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