Pre-Exam Post

A trivia for you:

Do you know that there is close to 273 important Criminal Law case laws and principals in English Law?

And do you know that you would only need an average of 10 cases per question when you are answering your Criminal Law paper?

Which makes it 10 x 4 (for answering four questions), meaning that an average of 40 case laws will be used, which simply means (without taking into account statutes): IT TAKES LESS THAN 20% OF YOUR WHOLE CRIMINAL LAW KNOWLEDGE TO DETERMINE YOUR FINAL SCORE.

Isn’t that comforting? Blame it on the British education system.

In essence then, whether you pass or fail; and get a second class lower or upper score; 80% of it is generally dependant on the following:

1. Your wits in playing with your words.

2. Your luck in getting an examiner that agrees with your train of thought (remember, you only have one chance of justifying yourself).

3. The mood of your examner (I was told that we should count ourself lucky if they are not drunk when marking our papers).

4. Plain good ol’ hardwork. Can’t argue with that.

5. Your mental and physical condition on the day of the exam.

6. The fact that your handwriting should be legible.

7. And other reasons unbeknownst to us. This is from some of the seniors: they claim to have aced Criminal Law in mocks only to have faltered in their finals without knowing where they have gone wrong.

Yup. Can’t wait to “vomit” out my Criminal Law tomorrow. Wish me luck!