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If i’m looking forward to excel in F4 instead of passing it, what should be included in my answers? For example the sections,Cases, details of cases ,handwriting, length of answers, conclusions. To what extent i should include these within my answers?
Sections? No. Details of cases? No. Length of answers – as much as you can write in 13 minutes – having spent 5 minutes to plan 10 markable points. State principles of law and illustrate by stating the case of authority ( in brackets ) and underlined.
Conclusions? Certainly where asked to advise. Otherwise, where the situation calls for a conclusion.
Handwriting – the neater, the better
Does it mean that if i could write out those within the study notes which required by questions , it is possible for me to achieve a 9/10 marks?
So sorry for my questions being missed out : what is meant by “illustrate by stating the case of authority ( in brackets ) and underlined”? Do i have to put case name in brackets and underline it?
In answer to your first question, yes! However, it’s not realistically likely that you’ll get anywhere near writing so much within the time allocation. In fact, it could well take you 30 minutes just to COPY any one of the BPP answers. That’s a maximum of 6 answers within the three hours = a maximum score of 60%.
There is a real problem of knowing too much! If you allow yourself to get pulled in to an answer where you really know your stuff and you try to impress with your wealth of knowledge, you run a real risk of over-running your time and that will deprive you of the 18 minutes for answering the next question.
On a question by question basis, a score of 9 or 10 is not beyond anyone’s reach ( however many of you may feel differently! ) But to achieve that level over 10 questions requires very strict self-discipline.
My best student ( over many years! ) scored 89% ( at least, that’s the best score that any of my students reported to me ) and I’m thinking that there are judges ( certainly magistrates ) out there who would struggle to get into such high levels!
Now your second question. Forgive me here, because I don’t know how to underline a bit of script on these posts! In your answer, you could find yourself writing for example “Goods in a shop window are invitations to treat and are not therefore offers capable of being accepted ( Fisher v Bell )” with the “Fisher v Bell” underlined in your answer.
The idea is to make your answer marker-friendly. It’s a small matter of exam technique / presentation. In fact, when I was a student, we were taught that, whenever we ruled a line, we did so with a straight edge and a red pen! I’m not going to get into heavy discussions about the acceptability of using a red pen in the exam and so far as I am concerned, a ruled line with a black pen would be as good as a ruled line with a red pen. But whatever colour you use, it simply makes your answer neater and better presented.Oh, what a pedant I am – sorry!
No you’re not. Thanks for your well explanations which could release me from getting vexed. I really appreciate it.
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please explain me the case of Holton vs. Holton.
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At this hearing, on application of plaintiff and over objections of defendant, the court permitted plaintiff to file a supplemental petition asking for permanent alimony as well as a division of the property. After hearing evidence as to property owned by the parties and accumulated during the marriage relation, the court took said cause under advisement.
Thank you Dan. I would have got round to answering Bijaya’s question eventually but you just beat me to it. Never mind, an answer after 11 years 6 months is probably better than no answer at all
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I didn’t even notice how old this thread is – I was looking for an answer to my questions, I stumbled upon this, and decided to write something smart haha
No worries! Always educative to have well researched answers on this thread
Your contributions will always be welcome on these open forums … but not so welcome on the Ask ACCA Tutor forums!
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And good luck with your law studies
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danadams01 wrote:I didn’t even notice how old this thread is – I was looking for an answer to my questions, I stumbled upon this, and decided to write something smart haha
Thanks a lot !
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