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Last week I sat my first Legal Practice Course (LPC) elective exam: commercial law and intellectual property. It was an incredibly interesting module and I enjoyed further developing my knowledge as I studied these subjects at undergraduate level. The exam was challenging due to the breadth of the module, although it’s a classic statement for one to say they like a challenge… I am extremely happy the challenge of this exam is over.

Now that I've sat various LPC exams, I feel that I've gotten into the revision groove. By this, I mean that I now understand what revision methods work for me. My revision methods have had to be updated again since studying for my law degree due to the changing nature of my condition. At the beginning of my course, this bothered me a lot and I even compared myself to other students on Instagram documenting their revision sessions. I punished myself for not being able to write my own revision notes due to the sheer amount or even sitting there for long revision sessions.

However, I soon started to realise that I was taking in the information and revising it, just in different ways. For example, in times when I couldn’t sit for long periods and read the heavy chapters, I chose to listen to the content via my software which turns text into audio. Additionally, I made the choice to purchase revision notes other students have made. This was incredibly beneficial as it would cut my time down by many hours and ease the pain in my wrists and fingers because I wasn’t writing sheer quantities. I could then add my own small notes or re-structure the text to ways best suited to me. This has saved me significant amounts of pain and also cut my recovery time after an exam!

In short, I’d like to say it takes time to find what revision techniques work best for you. My best advice would be to not narrow yourself to your previous revision techniques, what worked for you then might not work for you now. It's always worth trying new ways of learning as you might surprise yourself. Previously, I would have thought I only revised by reading…however, listening is my new saviour!

In the autumn term, I will be studying employment law. I didn’t study this at university and look forward to learning the law. Furthermore, I will be interested to see how studying employment law interacts with my job in the diversity and inclusion team.

One elective down…two more to go!

Read The Abled Lawyer's recent post on deferring exams.