Hey LDC Bar Course student beginning your finals in a few days,
Here’s a thread you might consider reading. GWE AFUNAMU.
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1.👩🏾⚖️ Have your notes in order. Don’t show up for war without ammunition. Know your books like you know your crush’s last seen on WhatsApp.
2.👩🏾⚖️ Attempt every workshop. Imagine an exam drops Workshop 2 of Corporate financing and you skipped it? Premium tears, deluxe edition.
3.👩🏾⚖️ Statutes are your BFFs. Don’t just walk around with them for bragging rights. Read them. Digest them. Marry them if you must.
4.👩🏾⚖️ Pens! Carry an entire stationery shop. I used 3–6 pens per paper. Don’t be that lost cow mooing for a pen while others are wondering whether to draft a Plaint or Notice of Motion.
5.👩🏾⚖️ Write fast. Your writing should outcompete Usain Bolt’s speed. But this doesn’t mean you should write like a cockroach to annoy the person marking your exam
6.👩🏾⚖️ Gaps in your notes? No documents? Congratulations, your village people are winning. Close them before they hold a thanksgiving ceremony.
7.👩🏾⚖️ P.L.E.A formula. Slap yourself if you haven’t learnt how to solve legal issues using the Principle, Evidence, Law, Analysis…CLOCK IT!! 🤏🏾
8.👩🏾⚖️ You don’t have to write the law as is in the statute. Summarize it like the skirt I want to wear for Detty December; short enough to grab attention as a baddie, long enough to cover the essentials.
9.👩🏾⚖️ Avoid the demons of photocopied notes. Your village people are laughing at you again you fool.
10.👩🏾⚖️ Leaked exams? Lies from the pit of academic hell. There will be a lot of witchcraft in the name of leaked exams prior to the exam. The devil is a liar. In that parking lot, in WhatsApp groups and even in your hostels, you’ll study for the bar again next year I assure you sweetie.
11.👩🏾⚖️ Printery fraud. You see those cases/statutes that the neighboring photocopiers print in bulk before an exam? Knock your head and say “I’m a business man’s biggest fool” Don’t buy it!
12.👩🏾⚖️ Phones in the exam. The need to carry a phone/any other examination contraband, remember there’s a police station right at the LDC gate you dummy! You’re literally checked by Counter Terrorism Police before every exam. Don’t be too stupid to turn your bar exam into a criminal record my friend!
13.👩🏾⚖️ Dress appropriately for your exams. You’re a lawyer, dress in accordance with the rules governing the Bar Course. But if you prefer to be sent away, you can try doing otherwise. You’re boujie. Right?
14.👩🏾⚖️ Face your paper. The devil will tempt you to ask your neighbor which document you’re supposed to draft, I hope you get caught moving that big mouth with a wrong document moreover.
15.👩🏾⚖️ ”Get some rest.” No, they’re lying. You’ll rest after passing the Bar. If you want to rest, please do. There’s another intake next year waiting for you. Sorry, in 2027.😘
16.👩🏾⚖️ PRAY!! A wise man once said “The Bar course is like a lion hunt” Do you remember Daniel in the Lion’s Den? Go and ask Daniel if God will bring you out incase you think I’m lying.