How are my first year law grades and constitutional law advice please!
Firstly, I do a joint law and business degree. I have my first year first semester grades of:
Law of contracts: 62%
Common law system and method: 71%
Management: 68%
Marketing: 70%
These are decent grades my only issue is for constitutional law and torts that I'm doing this semester I am expecting 2:1 at best (possibly even 2:2 or 3rd for constitutional as I really struggle with it).
From these grades I've noticed my firsts are really only going to be from business modules which I feel probably is not a good look for law firms. Do you think they will notice this?
Also another issue is that I worked my absolute hardest for these grades and no matter how much extra time I could be given I do not see it as possible for me to have done better but the content is only going to get harder. Is this something to be concerned about?
Also does anyone have any advice for how to tackle constitutional law. My method will probably be memorising everything first (key cases, rules etc) then doing past paper questions. Since the past papers don't have answers I will likely use chatgpt to see whether I was on the right path (yes I know it is not the most reliable). Lastly if I have time (I have less than a month) I might try reading key cases but to be honest I don't see the benefit in this as I doubt memorising quotes is necessary (if it is, that is horrendous). There's already a lot to memorise for constitutional law.
Tldr; I'm panicking and ranting over nothing, you can just pass by this post.
Law of contracts: 62%
Common law system and method: 71%
Management: 68%
Marketing: 70%
These are decent grades my only issue is for constitutional law and torts that I'm doing this semester I am expecting 2:1 at best (possibly even 2:2 or 3rd for constitutional as I really struggle with it).
From these grades I've noticed my firsts are really only going to be from business modules which I feel probably is not a good look for law firms. Do you think they will notice this?
Also another issue is that I worked my absolute hardest for these grades and no matter how much extra time I could be given I do not see it as possible for me to have done better but the content is only going to get harder. Is this something to be concerned about?
Also does anyone have any advice for how to tackle constitutional law. My method will probably be memorising everything first (key cases, rules etc) then doing past paper questions. Since the past papers don't have answers I will likely use chatgpt to see whether I was on the right path (yes I know it is not the most reliable). Lastly if I have time (I have less than a month) I might try reading key cases but to be honest I don't see the benefit in this as I doubt memorising quotes is necessary (if it is, that is horrendous). There's already a lot to memorise for constitutional law.
Tldr; I'm panicking and ranting over nothing, you can just pass by this post.
(edited 11 months ago)
Reply 1
Try to think of Constitutional Law as a group of principles, not a bunch of rules. Try to remember what principle a case exemplifies. Do not worry about memorising quotations. Sit down and read the opening chapters of Wade, or de Smith. Bagehot is super short and still relevant, so read him in bed.
Your grades are pretty good, and you are only in your first year, so try not to worry too much.
I think that law firms may vary in how much attention they pay to results in modules, but by and large if you get a 2.1 or a first, that makes you a competitive candidate, assuming you press all the other usual CV buttons.
In my chambers we don't care about individual module results, we look at the overall picture.
Good luck!
Your grades are pretty good, and you are only in your first year, so try not to worry too much.
I think that law firms may vary in how much attention they pay to results in modules, but by and large if you get a 2.1 or a first, that makes you a competitive candidate, assuming you press all the other usual CV buttons.
In my chambers we don't care about individual module results, we look at the overall picture.
Good luck!
Reply 2
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Oh wow you clearly answered pretty much all my worries thanks a lot, thank you for the reassurance as well.
Reply 3
You're welcome!
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