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Switching from Arts to Law

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    #32
    Rebelheart
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,077 ✭✭✭Rebelheart


    From this morning's Irish Times:

    'Downturn leaves 800 solicitors unemployed'
    (http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2009/1117/1224258982636.html?via=mr)


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    #33
    Sangre
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    Law, at undergrad and postgrad level, is extremely easy. The only hard better is doing better than your peers.


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    #34
    Jev/N
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    Sangre wrote: »
    Law, at undergrad ... level, is extremely easy.

    I disagree; Law subjects tend to be quite hard to get first in compared to most commerce and arts subjects at least


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    #35
    lemon_sherbert
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    Jev/N wrote: »
    I disagree; Law subjects tend to be quite hard to get first in compared to most commerce and arts subjects at least

    I think it holds true what everyone seems to say; easy to pass, hard to do well in


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    #36
    Sangre
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    Jev/N wrote: »
    I disagree; Law subjects tend to be quite hard to get first in compared to most commerce and arts subjects at least
    Anyone can walk through law blindfolded and get a high 2.1. That to me is an easy degree.


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    RandolphEsq
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    Sangre wrote: »
    Law, at undergrad and postgrad level, is extremely easy. The only hard better is doing better than your peers.

    Ah! It doesn't make sense! IT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE! FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

    Did you not do law though when it was just a summer exam so one breezed through the year and worked at exam time?
    The subjects, at 3rd/4th year level, do require continuous studying from the very beginning because there is a lot of basic theory to take on, on top of the extra journals/articles/other textbooks to read. And that is for a basic first, not even shooting the lights out. Definitely not a breeze


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    #38
    Sangre
    Registered Users Posts: 12,169 ✭✭✭✭Sangre


    RandolphEsq wrote: »
    Ah! It doesn't make sense! IT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE! FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

    Did you not do law though when it was just a summer exam so one breezed through the year and worked at exam time?
    The subjects, at 3rd/4th year level, do require continuous studying from the very beginning because there is a lot of basic theory to take on, on top of the extra journals/articles/other textbooks to read. And that is for a basic first, not even shooting the lights out. Definitely not a breeze
    Basic first? You're not going to do much better than that in law. Well, not in my day anyway.

    Basically, if the trouble you're having with your degree is how high your first is then your degree is an easy one. Obviously, when I call a law degree easy I use it in terms relative to other degrees. Law is full of concepts and ideas that anyone can grasp, its not science/engineering. Anyone can do well in law, just because everyone else does well is a moot point. That is an job applications issue and is argument against 'law being easy' rather than 'law degrees being easy'.

    I would have killed for continuous assessment. Your whole degree based on 5 exams? That was fun. The number of firsts sky rocketed when semesterisation was introduced as the scope of the topics was condensed for each exam and people could specialise their knowledge more.


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