Thanks a million. I have condensed my notes down quite a lot but you wonder if you have enough when there are bucket loads in the manuals. Anyway, head down, the end is in sight!
On Sep 17, 1:52 pm, b05bf1e4 <[email protected]> wrote: > 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- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
