I'm just unsure how to prepare myself for my legal trial exams
I'm sure I know most of the content well enough, however when it comes to essays I don't know what I'm going to be asked exactly so it's overwhelming to figure out what legislation/cases/media articles I need
Say for example I'm doing this question
Assess the effectiveness of legal and non-legal responses in dealing with domestic violence.
How would I go about it?
With Legal essays, I found the best way to prepare for them was to do a lot of essay plans with a ton of different questions (for other sections, you can do past papers). This way, it's easier to cover all bases because you're answering different questions with different examples. I also had a 'cheat sheet' for each topic (Crime, Human Rights + options) where I had all the LCMs I wanted to use on them.
I also encourage you to post a few essays on the marking board so you can get feedback from your peers and maybe the mods can check them out too. :-)
In response to the question you posted, I didn't do the Family option, but this is how I structured my responses for questions with that format:
- Introduction
- Effective legal measures
- Ineffective legal measures
- Effective non-legal measures
- Ineffective non-legal measures
- Conclusion
A thing to remember with this format is that although you may classify one measure as effective, it might have a few cons too so mention them in the same paragraph so you can show you're assessing the effectiveness of that measure. Does that make sense?
Hope this helps!