Talk:Legal education in the United Kingdom

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What's missing here is any discussion of how the courses are structured. Do they use the Socratic method? The casebook method? Lectures? Treatises or actual cases? Are grades on a curve? Based on assignments throughout the year or only on a big final exam? How big are the class sizes? That's the kind of information that lawyers and law students from other countries (as well as perhaps even in the U.K. itself) would be interested in. --Coolcaesar (talk) 05:04, 20 December 2009 (UTC)


 * The couse structure varies from university to university. Oxford and Cambridge for example use the tutorial system, as it is the case BTW in all other bachelor's degree program(me)s they offer (not just Law !). In other universities, teaching is based mostly on a mix of lectures, typically attended by a large number of students, and classes (recitations) consisting of a smaller group. Generally speaking, British universities tend to be fairly conservative when it comes to performance assessment. A student's grade is determined mostly by a set of (typically 3-hour) written exams taken at the end of each year. For a subject like Law, there are normally 4 or 5 final exams per year. Throughout the year, coursework generally includes student-written essays that are brought by the student to tutorials or classes/recitations for discussion. Submitted coursework may be graded or not, but generally it doesn't count towards the final grade. In the final year of the degree, it is customary to replace at least one final exam with a student-made dissertation, which is then examined orally. There may be also one or more courses where the student is required to complete a research project.200.206.236.107 (talk) 17:34, 22 August 2010 (UTC)

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