Underestimating exams again

It’s hours before an exam and I’m reading World of Warcraft pages… Thank goodness it’s an easy exam. Well, I think so anyway. It’s Law 6, where I just need to ramble about statutory interpretation and precedent, which I did awesome at last year, and I still know fairly well. The second and last question is on the Hart-Devlin debate, which I sort of know already. I just have to remember some cases; I’ll be shocked if I get less than a B on this.

Hypocrisy

Argh.

I was just about to come and do an update saying that today is the end of the holidays, and so I’m going to start hardcore revising again. No one can start their start-of-hardcore-revision without a start-of-harcore-revision-cup-of-tea, so I went to get one.

Dad’s still in bed, at five to nine of the morning and had the audacity to say “Isn’t it about time you got a part-time job yet?” Unfortunately, he said it so off the cuff that I had to respond quick fire and we all know there’s a sort of speed/politeness relationship.

I ended up saying “Bite me. You’ve been looking for a job for seventeen years, I haven’t started looking yet and I’m closer.” It’s true though; how dare he question my employment state – I’m a student. I’m not even expected to have a job. My primary aim at the moment is to pass my exams – when he hasn’t had a job in so damn long when he has a family to support. It’s just freaking… rude!

Also, he said part time job. Part time!? If I was going to get a job it’d be a little more than part time, you ass.

Anyway. I’m going to watch Diggnation. Revision after this.

Today has been productive

Don’t be fooled into believe that I love to tell you all what I’m doing every second of the day, I’m actually only here because World Of Warcraft is doing for maintenance. Why do they take off every realm at the same time? I thought I’d play my dwarf (PVP server) whilst my main is down, but that goes down too. Sucks. So now I’m here.

I still have the problems with graphics on both WoW and GW, with no idea what the problem is. I’ve updated drivers and everything. WoW support have told me to do a memory test, which could take hours so I might do it for when I got to bed. A small part of me wants the memory test to find an error, so I can get it fixed. But at the same time, I don’t want Toshiba to take him again…

I’ve actually done a lot of revision today. That makes me even less nervous. I was shocked to see that my first exam is Friday though… it’s a computing resit. I haven’t actually looked at it at all, to be honest… Tomorrow I shall though, and make sure that I understand all the terms in the specification. As all exams, you only need to learn what they want you to learn, even if it’s not relavant.

What else have I done today… Oh, I’ve started reading a C++ book, which my computing teacher lent me. It’s… huge. I got bored at first, where it’s teaching about variable types and stuff, which I already know. I’m reading it though, since I may miss something C++ specific that’ll confuse me later on in the book.

I suppose I’ll go to sleep now. Wake me up at 1100, when the server is back up.

LAW2: Selection of Judges

I decided to go ahead and narrate my presentation on the select and appointment of judges as revision.

Beware though, I recorded it all in one go with no script so there’s a lot of “umm…” that would have been edited out if I had done it in Audacity (but I did it in Powerpoint). It’s in the .pptx format, so you might need Office 2007 to view it, though it’s probably that there’s a backwards computability patch that Microsoft released for it, like Word.

The Selection and Appointment of Judges (14Mb)

Unit 2: Alternative Dispute Resolution

This is the topic that made me fail this unit; I wasn’t in the lesson that we learnt about ADR in, and didn’t find the energy to get the notes off anyone (I didn’t really know anyone in law last year). The extent of my knowledge for ADR is this booklet of slides from the lesson, which were supposed to be noted during the class (mine remain blank) and a model answer. That’s good, I suppose, at least I know where to start. Not to mention, the last time I heard the acronym ADR was over a year ago.

A2 Law, Unit 5.

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Question 3 of the January 2004 paper.

Kellie’s and Jim’s rights would come under the occupier’s liability area of law, which discusses the extent to which the occupier must go to in order to keep people on their land safe.

Thanks for all the help, AQA

I just started looking over the stuff for business unit 11. The way I revise is by answering past exam questions. I head to the AQA website to find some, and there’s none there!? There’s an examiner report about the exam, but no actual exam. Not helpful at all.

I guess I can work from the specification, but they never actually tell you what you need to learn; that’s why I like using the exam papers because you can actually see what they’re going to ask and how it’s going to be asked. Take law for instance, the questions don’t mention defences at all but you’re still expected to put them in. You wouldn’t know you’re supposed to unless you’ve seen past mark schemes and exam papers.

The examiner’s report is actually quite helpful though.

I’m just going to go ahead and learn all of my text book.

A2 Law, Unit 5.

Question 3 of the January 2004 paper.

(a) Consider what rights and remedies the owners of the cottages, including Irene, may have in connection with the noise and other problems caused by the leisure activities and the oil spillage.

The cottage owners and Irene would have rights in the law concerning nuisance. There are three elements that need to be proven before a the cottage owners could successfully claim against Highlife Sports within the law for private nuisance.