Surviving the BPTC – Centrally Set Exams
February 25, 2013
Surviving Law Fairs
February 27, 2013
8. Use of notes
Your notes should allow you refer to them quickly and easily, and be organised in a way that allows you to do this. Using your notes to copy huge swathes of text or searching for an answer is not a good use of your time. If you find yourself completely stumped, use the index in your textbook – it is more likely to come up with something useful than reading your notes will.
Trust your notes – what is the point of looking at them at all if you are going then check in the textbook or statute? You prepared them, they should be right, right? The guy in front of me in my property exam was terrible for this (in his defence, he was using someone else’s notes, a big no-no!). Any reference in the notes to a section of an act and he was nose down in his statute book trying to find it. I am sure all he wrote was the section number when he did manage to find the provision he was looking for – if he had trusted the notes he could have been using that time to answer another question.
