Category: Exams

How To Fail University

Many will be familiar with the hit television series, How To Get Away With Murder, starring the generational talent Viola Davis. In it, a bunch of Law students are taught by their Criminal Law lecturer and learn the most effective way to get away with a crime like murder. The premise, as I see it, is that the best way to learn Criminal Law and make it stick

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The Common Good

Considering that we are now embarking on the second semester of our academic year, it is worth thinking about approaches to ensure that we succeed. Studying towards obtaining a degree in a university is a competitive environment where it often seems as though the best course of action is to go it alone in order to keep a leverage above all others who

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Mental health near exam-time

The exam period this year presents all those who will be sitting to write with a particularly unique set of challenges, not faced by others in previous years. Having been through an extended period of lockdowns, the consequences for which were "remote learning" or much less interaction with others while writing, we now have to return to normal after being

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