Any band 6 legal students who can give me some advice????? (1 Viewer)

[anonymousmonkey1010101010]

For context, my year 12 grades have been dead consistent ranging from 84% to 88% for all internal tasks including trials.

I want to try and improve in legal but i'm struggling. Everything seems normal. In all my other subjects theres always like 1 or 2 outliers/topics i struggle with to focus on to improve. In legal all my essays are just in the lower 'A range', my short answers good, and my multiple choice is a bit inconsistent but usually okay - but im trying to improve it.

My trial results were:
Total: 85/100
Multiple choice: 16/20
Short answer: 13/15
Crime essay: 14/15
Option (Family): 21/25
Option (Workplace): 21/25

The multiple choice i know, and im working on, but what else can I do?

All my feedback i've gotten this year seems standard - but its always kind of niche to the topic. like its never anything broad/overarching that can be applied to everything, its always like rewording one specific sentence or using a different piece of evidence.

With that being said I want to maximise my marks for my family and workplace essays, as I'm losing 8 marks there combined so if i got them both to a 23/25 i'd almost be in the band 6 range. and then if i work on my multiple choice i'll be good.

Anyway i'm just wondering if anyone has any specific advice or strategies they use everytime they write an essay that i can implement and keep in mind when writing all my essays to improve. (all my essays already have LCMDI, a PETAL/PEEL structure, and PEARRJAM)

I'm also trying to ask my teacher this but she took 2 months leave and doesn't get back to school until next term so like 2 weeks.

 

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For context, my year 12 grades have been dead consistent ranging from 84% to 88% for all internal tasks including trials.

I want to try and improve in legal but i'm struggling. Everything seems normal. In all my other subjects theres always like 1 or 2 outliers/topics i struggle with to focus on to improve. In legal all my essays are just in the lower 'A range', my short answers good, and my multiple choice is a bit inconsistent but usually okay - but im trying to improve it.

My trial results were:
Total: 85/100
Multiple choice: 16/20
Short answer: 13/15
Crime essay: 14/15
Option (Family): 21/25
Option (Workplace): 21/25

The multiple choice i know, and im working on, but what else can I do?

All my feedback i've gotten this year seems standard - but its always kind of niche to the topic. like its never anything broad/overarching that can be applied to everything, its always like rewording one specific sentence or using a different piece of evidence.

With that being said I want to maximise my marks for my family and workplace essays, as I'm losing 8 marks there combined so if i got them both to a 23/25 i'd almost be in the band 6 range. and then if i work on my multiple choice i'll be good.

Anyway i'm just wondering if anyone has any specific advice or strategies they use everytime they write an essay that i can implement and keep in mind when writing all my essays to improve. (all my essays already have LCMDI, a PETAL/PEEL structure, and PEARRJAM)

I'm also trying to ask my teacher this but she took 2 months leave and doesn't get back to school until next term so like 2 weeks.

as you are probably aware, multiple choice in legal is free marks. you should maybe drop 1 mark tops to a dumb mistake on the day, there's a limited number of questions they can ask and you can usually process of elimination out the stupid answers.

theres not really much general advice to be given on essays or magic hacks, it all depends on your specific essays and not much can be said without seeing those. also what the fk is pearrjam lol

usually essays in this mark range struggle from weak analysis and critical engagement. you have the right idea and relevant evidence but you're not actually using your words efficiently or just cramming in statistics and media articles to check boxes without thinking about how they actually further your argument or prove your point.

 

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Human rights is also pretty free, so long as u know the syllabus well (which it's not hard to memorise), with multis and hr combined, that's 35 marks you can get pretty easily if u really perfect it, which puts u in b6 range with ur current essay marks.

When I was writing essays, I would have really clearly in my head what I was actually arguing and how I'd link every bit of evidence to prove my judgment/argument. Don't content dump, pick lcmdi that ultimately prove your point and actually answer the question. That's what your focus has to be on while writing. If you think you're losing that consistent focus and link, stop and re-read to refocus and get back on track. Use evaluative language too. Also, sometimes lacking counterarguments? We'd be marked down if we didn't have one (get marked down in law school too if you don't lol), it makes ur essay stronger if you think about counters and then ultimately rebut the counterargument bc urs is stronger.

 

[anonymousmonkey1010101010]

as you are probably aware, multiple choice in legal is free marks. you should maybe drop 1 mark tops to a dumb mistake on the day, there's a limited number of questions they can ask and you can usually process of elimination out the stupid answers.

theres not really much general advice to be given on essays or magic hacks, it all depends on your specific essays and not much can be said without seeing those. also what the fk is pearrjam lol

usually essays in this mark range struggle from weak analysis and critical engagement. you have the right idea and relevant evidence but you're not actually using your words efficiently or just cramming in statistics and media articles to check boxes without thinking about how they actually further your argument or prove your point.

Thanks so much for your feedback
I'm working on multiple choice

Pearrjam is like the effectiveness/justice criteria my school teaches us, I know some schools use 'carebear' but its like; protection of individual rights, enforceability, accessibility, resource efficiency, responsiveness, justice been achieved, application of the rule of law, meeting societies needs

I think your right about my essays I will def try to be more analytical and focus on critical engagement. I just don't know how lol. I think ur right about cramming stats/media - im now trying to make sure im using relevant ones and strongly linking them to what im trying to prove

 

[Reasonabledoubt]

For context, my year 12 grades have been dead consistent ranging from 84% to 88% for all internal tasks including trials.

I want to try and improve in legal but i'm struggling. Everything seems normal. In all my other subjects theres always like 1 or 2 outliers/topics i struggle with to focus on to improve. In legal all my essays are just in the lower 'A range', my short answers good, and my multiple choice is a bit inconsistent but usually okay - but im trying to improve it.

My trial results were:
Total: 85/100
Multiple choice: 16/20
Short answer: 13/15
Crime essay: 14/15
Option (Family): 21/25
Option (Workplace): 21/25

The multiple choice i know, and im working on, but what else can I do?

All my feedback i've gotten this year seems standard - but its always kind of niche to the topic. like its never anything broad/overarching that can be applied to everything, its always like rewording one specific sentence or using a different piece of evidence.

With that being said I want to maximise my marks for my family and workplace essays, as I'm losing 8 marks there combined so if i got them both to a 23/25 i'd almost be in the band 6 range. and then if i work on my multiple choice i'll be good.

Anyway i'm just wondering if anyone has any specific advice or strategies they use everytime they write an essay that i can implement and keep in mind when writing all my essays to improve. (all my essays already have LCMDI, a PETAL/PEEL structure, and PEARRJAM)

I'm also trying to ask my teacher this but she took 2 months leave and doesn't get back to school until next term so like 2 weeks.

I'd have to know what your feedback looks like and your answer, I've recieved full marks for family and human rights but the most advice i can give at this stage without knowing how you write is to always answer the question and to demonstrate what the law actually does in your essay. For instance, in the explain part of your family essay I would state what is the process of parenting orders under family law and so on. After that I would go into my discussion and always include cases, stats and media in every paragraph. For short answers id recommend you to just know your syllabus front to back which is achievable given the length of hr. Id also recommend for short answers to always use examples and critieria in a 6-7 marker.

Also for "using a different piece of evidence," i'm making the assumption that yours might be very popular or outdated? Some recommendations I got from my teachers is to never use a well known case, well other then when your discussing law reform. But if its outdated dont use it as well

 

[Reasonabledoubt]

I'd have to know what your feedback looks like and your answer, I've recieved full marks for family and human rights but the most advice i can give at this stage without knowing how you write is to always answer the question and to demonstrate what the law actually does in your essay. For instance, in the explain part of your family essay I would state what process of parenting orders under family law and so on. After that I would go into my discussion and always include cases, stats and media in every paragraph. For short answers id recommend you to just know your syllabus front to back which is achievable given the length of hr. Id also recommend for short answers to always use examples and critieria in a 6-7 marker.

Also for "using a different piece of evidence," i'm making the assumption that yours might be very popular or outdated? Some recommendations I got from my teachers is to never use a well known case, well other then when your discussing law reform. But if its outdated dont use it as well

Since you said you also use pearrjam, I want to clarify how are you using it? Are you simply stating that "this achieves justice" or "this protects individual rights"? Because it needs to be clear what individual rights are protected, for instance the right to liberty or the right to be assumed innocent until proven guilty. Also for achieving justice you should say achieving justice for who? the victim, offender, society? This should apply across all pearrjam criteria