This was posted by Brian Foley from GCD on Boards.ie...I hope he doesn't mind. It's a very good post and very relevant here...
"You're not screwed. Look, the examiner doesn't require dissertations at all. It's knowing primarily enough to be able to say "oh this is a question about Article 38.1 and I know enough about that to know that it permits be argue that (a) a prosecution can't be too late in the day and (b) unfair pre trial publicity may be a bad thing and knowing a few cases on each. Essentially, you need to get the point where you can look at the table of contents and would feel confident about giving a brief "radio interview" 30 second explanation about all of the topics and sub- topics. If you can do that, and know a few cases on each, you'll be fine. It's mainly about the ability to see the issues in the paper, which is just something that people are not doing. The reason people fail constitutional is because they just don't spot the issues. At most (at this point) try learning about 1-2 lines per case. Each topic can be reduced to an A4 page of skeleton notes. And, in any event, this close to exam, go get yourself a shorter text - Fergus Ryan second edition nutshell or something to that effect and it may help you out. On Sep 17, 10:41 am, Grey <[email protected]> wrote: > Well Sar I've been watching your post hoping someone would point us in > the right direction but so far no - not a hope I can cover it all. > It's such a large course and judging by the examiner's reports a tough > one to get through. Looks like a lot of people dont spot the correct > issue in the questions. Any helpful suggestions anyone?? > > On Sep 10, 2:13 pm, sar <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Hi guys any tips on what topics I could leave out in Constitutional? > > Has griffith college given any tips? > > > Finding it really hard!!! Any feedback would be great. > > Thanks Sar --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "FE-1 Study Group" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.ie/group/fe-1-study-group?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
