Kaplan book and notes are different

The course notes are mine – written by me and not plagiarised from Kaplan nor any other publisher

If they are in a different sequence than the chapters in the text book, that’s because there’s not a lot of point in me summarising the text book – that’s something you could do for yourself if you felt up to the task

There’s much, much more in a text book that there is in the course notes – even the course notes as filled out by my lectures. But, from a personal point of view, I really wouldn’t want to be faced with the prospect of reading the study text, be it a Kaplan text or BPP, Beckers or Emile Woolf, any of them.

But you can read through the opentuition course notes in a little over two hours. You can listen to the lectures over and over in easy length recordings. And all that reading and listening can be repeated two or three times in, say, 2 weeks.

And here’s the gem! After that 2 or 3 weeks, you’re now in a position to get stuck into a revision kit from one of the recognised publishers. “Get stuck in?” Yes, just read a question and then the answer, then a different question and its answer, then a third and its answer. Go right the way through a revision kit, just reading

And then do it again (yes, of course you have time – I’m not asking you to do any real work, just reading!)

And then again, but this time, try to plan what you would have written if you had been faced with this in an exam. For a 30 mark question, spend 15 minutes planning what you would have included in your own answer. Then compare it with the printed solution.

For a 20 mark question, do the same but in 10 minutes.

For a 25 mark question – 12.5 minutes

Respectively, you need 30, 20 and 25 separate points within your planned answer. Didn’t manage that? Then practice some more.

How long are your points / sentences / paragraphs in an exam answer?

Pick up a book – now. Do it now!

Ok, open the book to any page at random. Get yourself a clean sheet of paper and a pen and the stopwatch on your mobile. Set the mobile to one minute 18 seconds. Get ready to copy – just copy, don’t think, just copy – from the book.

Start! Copy from the book for one minute 18 seconds ….. and…..STOP!

How much did you manage to write? Onto the fourth line of your script? That’s the MAXIMUM length of a sentence / paragraph in your exam

One point per paragraph, one paragraph per point. No more.

Do that 100 times and you’re a global prize winner

🙂