Ok, so you’ve bought the guide – investment made, problem solved, 100% success in your course is now completely guaranteed and you can sit back. Right? Well, not quite – our guides should have your back, but it helps if you can put our guides to best effect. After all, the one sitting the exam will ultimately be you!
Here are our top tips on how to use our guides to best effect:
Learn the basic content
Even if you’re doing open book exams you do need to do some learning! You absolutely cannot rely on looking through your books to answer questions during the exam. You have a limited time period and all that counts is what you have typed (or written) and submitted at the end of the exam. Use our notes as a guide for the key things you do need to learn – there’s no way you can commit everything in your notes and manuals to memory and we’ve done the hard job of sorting out the most important concepts for you.
Check that you understand everything
We’ve yet to come across the law student who “got” absolutely everything immediately. If you’ve struggled with something from your lecture and seminar or workshop notes then look at the relevant section of our guides. We expect that all will become clearer if you work through our notes.
Customise your Law Answered resources to the precise needs of your course
Our guides aim to cover most of the content of courses at a variety of institutions, but sometimes individual tutors and law schools take their own approach, such as teaching alternative case law. So listen out for what your law school focuses on – check that everything included in our guide is relevant to your particular course.
Use our essay plans as a guide on how to write “legal essays”
We’ve given you essay plans in our guides to give you an idea of how to structure your thoughts. Structure and argument are key to success in legal writing assignments. Look carefully at how we suggest you approach an essay and apply the thinking to the particular title you have been given. Make sure you do your own research into relevant cases, journal articles and statutes. And remember to practise writing essays – it’s a skill that can take time to learn.
Good luck!