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vexx:

--- Quote from: ninwa on August 31, 2010, 12:18:30 pm ---RAW = research and writing i.e. learning how to write in legalese, legal referencing etc.

Quite a dry subject. -_-

Still, if you want to transfer you want the highest GPA possible. Doing law really doesn't help you in that respect... I think you really need to make a choice: law or medicine?

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haha ahhh research and writing i should have guessed that, as i was looking through the subjects of law yesterday and i read about that..

yeahh i definitely want to do medicine, just perhaps doing something a bit different beforehand is potentially a good idea, maybe i'll just stick with arts subjects then >< though, i'm sure i can do OK at my single law subject per semester and try to just smash my other 3 biomed subjects. maybe GPA won't be that big of a problem? who knows though i could do terrible!
just the interest part is what i'm wondering about..hmm decisions, decisions.

Russ:
The way GPA is calculated means that getting 100% in some subjects won't really compensate for getting average marks in others, since they convert it to a different scale.

If you want to do medicine and don't get in, I'd have science as my nth preference so that I can at least take similar subjects until there's a chance to reapply/transfer/apply PG

ninwa:
The problem with law is that it's kind of unpredictable. Just because you are smart and work hard doesn't mean you'll get good marks. Learning how to write law exams is a process all on its own, because the format of law exams is pretty unique.

My friend got an 88 in torts; she didn't go to a single lecture or tutorial. I believe that was the highest mark that semester.
My best law mark was for the exam which I crammed for the night before the exam, after already having pulled an all-nighter the night before that (so by the time of the exam I was on about 50 hours without sleep).
A friend who works his arse off because he genuinely loves studying law (his life pretty much revolves around it, he's always going to law events and seminars and functions and lectures) has two fails on his transcript already.

Also, the GPA system for law is slightly different, the substantive law subjects you do in your initial years (i.e. not RAW or ILR) are weighted twice as heavily as later-year subjects which are mostly one-semester subjects. Thus if you screw up in your first year (which is highly likely, I think first-year drop out rate is something like 30%) your GPA takes a massive beating.

This is why I suggest you make a choice between medicine or law.


--- Quote from: http://www.law.monash.edu.au/current-students/honours/index.html ---Each law unit is weighted according to its value in the Bachelor of Laws:

    * 12 credit point units and compulsory full year units carry a weighting of 1.0
    * 6 credit point units and compulsory semester units carry a weighting of 0.5
    * 3 credit point units carry a weighting of 0.25

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vexx:
^ hmmm i see.
well ive definitely chosen medicine, just not sure how i will get there.
i'm sure doing 1 law breadth per semester won't hurt my GPA too much, if it does as you've said it can be unpredictable, i can always drop the law units and just focus on biomed and push it up. never hurts to try i guess :p.. maybe alittle pain ha
thanks for the replies though, but still unsure.

ok edit, question (sort of similar but meh)
if i was to enjoy studying law, what would i HAVE to enjoy doing?
:P

ninwa:
Reading, problem solving, studying.

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