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LAWS2014 Corporations Law at Sydney: what does an open-book exam actually test?

Both assessed components of LAWS2014 Corporations Law at the University of Sydney are open book, and both prohibit AI. Students hear the first half of that and relax.

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LAWS2706: the doctrinal course that asks you to justify the doctrine

Ninety percent of this course is examined, and the examination is not only about rules. Alongside four outcomes that ask you to identify, apply, analyse and research, there is a fifth that asks you to reflect on the social implications of…

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BLAW2012: who is your contract law memo actually written for?

BLAW2012 Applied Contract Law at Curtin University is assessed in a way that quietly asks for two different people. The examination, run over roughly 2 hours, rewards a student who can state and apply doctrine under time pressure.

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LAWS2012: property is not a thing, and that is the examinable part

Almost every property problem you will be given asks who owns something, and almost none of them are answered by naming an owner. That is the shift.

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LAWS212: is your employment law answer citing the right year?

Employment law in Australia changed on 26 August 2024, and the change went to the most basic question the subject asks: who counts as an employee.

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LAWS121: is the first law course actually an entrance exam?

Students treat LAWS121 as an introduction, which is what its title promises. Structurally it is something else.

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LAWS403: the law unit with no rule to apply

Every other unit in a law degree teaches you to find the rule and apply it to the facts. Legal Theory removes the rule.

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LAWS5180: who owns the work when a machine helped make it?

Most students arriving at IP: Copyright and Designs expect the hard questions to be about infringement, because infringement is where the drama is. The harder questions sit one step earlier.

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LAWS123: why do study notes for this course quietly go out of date?

There is a specific trap in Introduction to Statute Law that has nothing to do with how hard the material is.

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LAW2447 at RMIT: how do you approach the Business Law assignment?

LAW2447 Business Law asks you to apply legal principles to a set of facts and reach a reasoned conclusion, and the rubric rewards that application over reciting the law.

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