Day 2 Done.

*note: before reading this entry, go to bottom of entry and read the statement highlighted in this same colour. thanks. (for your own benefit.)

well - Company Law is over and done with - at least for now. i'll only be sure that it is truly over come results day. nevertheless, after the initial worry i harboured in my head for awhile, once my paper was collected, vis-a-vis wondering whether i had enough substance in my answers to get through - i felt a huge weight lifted off my shoulders.

the paper which, during the course of the year, i assumed that i'd be able to cope with but turned out to be a whole other kettle of fish - that is company law - is done. what a relief.

i'm picking up again with my Family Law and Law of Succession and hope that it won't be such a struggle to get in the groove with those subjects. i've only got 5 days before i have to sit for Family and then just one day away, will be Succession. *i'm keeping my fingers crossed.

anyway, in retrospect, Company Law was not as bad as i thought it could have been. the scenario in my head was one of a complete and total *black-out in the hall, which has never really happened to me before but there's always a first time for everything - so the fear was somewhat founded in that sense.

the actual effective soaking in of the subject matter and topics that i wanted to cover only took place the day before the bloody exam, so i suppose whatever answers i came up with during the exam would probably be just a *cursory representation of the subject matter. as such, as said earlier, i'm just hoping that that's enough to get through.

i studied enough to to attempt all 4 questions in a decent manner considering all circumstances. all the topics i covered came out - which was a major comfort at the get-go seeing how all this time, i've had difficulty recognising questions on topics that i thought i had covered extensively!

in fact, in Part A of the paper (of which i can only answer one 'essay' based question as opposed to the other Part B questions which mostly contain 'problem' based questions), i had 2 questions to choose from. one was a pretty General question on the 'strengths and weaknesses' of UK Company Law and another was a very specific question on the role of 'Non-executive Directors'.

the former allowed me the freedom for more originality in my answer as i could form a personal view on the laws that i knew in company law based on the few topics i studied. that gave it more of a potential to be a scoring type question - the facts and info i use will be somewhat similar and cursory with any other student who attempted the question but then again, it wouldn't be entirely identical. the drawback was that it would take time to formulate a proper answer and i had trouble deciding on how far i should go into details as i had to cover a wide spectrum of laws in Company Law.

the latter was a pretty straightforward answer. there are several main Committees that had been formed to evaluate to the role of NED's and all i had to do was to spill everything i memorised on each report and even the criticisms were memorised. the drawback here was that even when i knew exactly what to write, i only had a cursory memory of all the reports involved. plus, the specific nature of the question gave me little room to try and be original.

i ended up doing the General question because of the freedom of originality it gave me. but i didn't really manage to get through all my arguments by the end of the exam. in the end - i don't think i managed to make my answer very 'original' at all. but as with all the rest of the questions i attempted, i hope there's enough in there to get me through.

all in all, i'm just glad that for now, that's over and i have just 2 more papers to get over with.

*whatever happens, these entries i'm writing on my present exam experience would probably prove useful to me in some way, shape or form in future.

for that, i apologise if it's boring the f*ck out of you. *grin.

signing off, the commonjack.

p/s: 'eye twitch' is gone.