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ellellen:
Omgggg the case note was a nightmare! I thought that the one for criminal law was hard, but I found this one so much harder! I'm not looking forward to getting the marks back haha.

For Torts I have Eric, and for Pub Law I have Lisa!!

Glasses:

--- Quote from: ellellen on September 27, 2017, 01:14:59 pm ---Omgggg the case note was a nightmare! I thought that the one for criminal law was hard, but I found this one so much harder! I'm not looking forward to getting the marks back haha.

For Torts I have Eric, and for Pub Law I have Lisa!!

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Yeah those assignment instructions were ridiculous #copyandpaste

And cool! What have they been like?

ellellen:
Eric is ... not my favourite. I just find his lectures hard to follow, especially because he doesn't use powerpoint slides! :O

Lisa is alright. Her content is good and she's really nice but sometimes can be a bit monotonous. I've gone to some of Eric's lectures and his are so much more engaging! (pub law eric not torts eric lol)

Who do you have?

Sine:

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cool thanks for the information :)

Jigsaw:

--- Quote from: ellellen on September 26, 2017, 12:38:04 am ---Okay so I got in with a WAM of 80, but I know quite a few people who made it in with WAMs in the low 70s !!! Sooo many people I know that are doing law are transfer students. I don't know the exact numbers but it fells like they let a lot of people transfer. As long as you're averaging above a distinction (70), you should be fine.

I didn't think first year was too difficult, but ultimately it depends on what subjects you do. I was getting 90s for assignments in journalism and media, but then got 67% on one politics essay and thought my dreams of law were over (spoiler alert: they weren't). It also really depends on how much effort you're willing to put in to your subjects. A lot of arts units don't have end of semester exams, which means that you'll have a loT of work due during semester. And when you have four assignments due in the same week, each worth 30% of your unit mark, while you are trying to keep your WAM above 70, you can really start to stress!!! Once I finished year 12 I thought that uni would be more relaxed and I would get more of a social life and be able to focus less on study. Unfortunately that wasn't the case for me. Uni work turned out to be really time consuming, especially because I was putting in maximum effort in order to try and get into law. But, now that I'm in law, I've relaxed a tiny bit.
 
Some people might say to choose "easy" subjects to boost your WAM but I think the best thing to do is just choose what interests you the most. Because if you choose a subject you're not really interested in just to try and get a good WAM, you are going to have such a boring semester. It's better to risk maybE slightly lower marks for something that you're really interested in because then you will actually enjoy doing your assignments, and might even be content to keep studying that subject if you don't get in to law! That was me with politics. It was my lowest subject. After first semester I thought that if I wanted to get in to law that maybe I should drop politics and choose something easier for second semester. But I kept it, and it was such a good decision because the content in second semester turned out to be so interesting.

By the end of my first year in arts I wasn't really too fussed about whether I got in to law or not because I had enjoyed all my arts subjects so much. When I did get accepted I was even a little sad that I had to leave a few of my arts subjects behind. But I know that's not the case for everyone, especially for people whose main aim has always been to just get in to law.

TL;DR:
- Aim for a WAM above 70
- choose first year subjects that genuinely interest you
- put a lot of effort into your first year subjects, and you'll be fine!



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Thank you so much for such an in-depth response! Really appreciate it. Also, just a follow up question,  the earliest one can transfer from arts at monash into arts/law is after one year?

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