Legal Studies Exam Discussion

[sam.utute]

Hi all,

Please use this thread for all post-exam discussion.

Good luck to all of you this afternoon.

Wishing you all the best,
Sam

P.S. If you email me a copy of the exam, I will endeavour to create some suggested solutions.

[Colokid]

the exam was so easy!! hope everyone killed it

[xxbubblegum5]

I agree. It was definitely the easiest I have ever done! I was actually expecting the exam to be a lot harder.

[uprising]

It wasn't the best exam I've ever done! The referendum question came out of nowhere, we hadn't discussed any successful ones in detail.

[Flor]

I thought it was a decent exam. I didn't finish ( I had two more sentences to go but noooooooooooooooooooooooo. Also, I didn't compare properly since I left like 15 mins for the question (sounds like a lot of time, but it srsly isn't)

edit: lol two, not to

[MJRomeo81]

Hopefully you guys did well.

Don't feel shattered if it didn't go as expected. I had a rough (and I mean really rough considering I was rank 1)  exam in 2011 but it still turned out good

[asli95]

i stuffed up the reform question by giving a reform and an alternative 

[livfrost]

Were we supposed to evaluate the last question, the 10 marker? I did but a lot of girls in my cohort didn't..

[qpwo]

damn for question 12 I used the wrong case for the high court interpretation, the worst thing is walking out knowing you knew the case but I just went blank when having to write it. that's 4 marks down the drain..

[vashappenin]

Oh my goodness thank you VCAA <3
That exam wasn't EASY so to speak, but I'm just soooooo relieved all my weak areas weren't tested: no civil pre trial procedures, no VLRC steps or examples, no doctrine of precedent, no recent changes/problems with the legal system. I didn't even revise these properly and thankfully they weren't on the exam :')

Started the extended response with half an hour left, and had time at the end to check over. My hand was hurting, but not enough to prevent me from writing so I'm just so grateful right now. I don't care how tough VCAA will mark or anything, I'm just happy that it's over now.

Off topic: NO MORE EXAMS FOR ME!! Oh gosh I'm so happy I could cry

Hope everyone else was happy

[Evan.T]

In regard to the reform question, would it matter if you gave alternatives instead of reforms? Because I did, and I think that reforms could technically count as any change. I just forgot pretty much all 'reforms'. But technically a 'change in order to improve something', which is what the 'alternatives' are.

[Coralista]

damn for question 12 I used the wrong case for the high court interpretation, the worst thing is walking out knowing you knew the case but I just went blank when having to write it. that's 4 marks down the drain..

Did the same thing except realized half way through and had to cross out a whole page.

Which case did you use?

[lemdaddy]

i stuffed up the reform question by giving a reform and an alternative 

Oh wow I just realised I did the same thing, used abolishing the jury as a reform. How on earth did I make that mistake

[Dejan]

Anxiously awaiting an upload of the exam

[Evan.T]

I didn't say abolishing the jury, but I more said modifying it. I then went on about specialist jury, so there is a jury but... and then about professional jurors, so there still is a jury...but people are paid to do it. Which is still a jury system, just reformed slightly. Technically reformed just means changed, and the study design doesn't stipulate what the reforms, so as long as it's a change, I'm hoping I'm okay. I know in the book it separately lists them as reforms and alternatives, but I think that's just silly as they essentially mean the same thing.