Core Subjects

Year 1: Contract, Tort, Public Law

Year 2: Criminal, Equity & Trusts, Land Law

Year 3: Evidence, Business Association (Commercial), Company Law

The other subjects will be in half-module. These subjects should not bother you before the start of the lectures.  

Self-contained Topics

It means that the concepts required are complete in itself making the topics comparatively easier to manage.

Example: 

Contract: Misrepresentation 

Equity & Trusts: Charitable Trusts

Reading is inevitable to legal studies

There is no other way to learn the law except doing the application of law by yourself.

Do not have any hope on the lectures (Yes, the tuition fee is a scam).

Study Group

A good and bad idea.

It is difficult to form a group only focusing on study.

But if there is one, it will save lots of time for legal research and sharing the academic comments for finalising the scripts. 

Ratio/Obiter

You need to learn the ratio (reason behind the judgement) of the case but also need remember the obiter (comment by a judge) of a particular judge to support your arguments in the Ans.

You do not need to state this is a ratio and just write the law directly because ratio is the established law/ obiter is just supporting comment.

For obiter, it is suggested to write as following (i) as suggested/commented by Lord Wilberforce in McPhail v Doulton...(ii) the full extend of the duty in Sliven should be...(Obiter, per Lightman J).

IRAC is a trick

IRAC is just "one of the Script Writing" for a good Ans, but it will not make your Ans looking good by strictly following it. 

Sometimes, Issue + Rule + Application can be combined in one sentence to save words.

For complex issues/evaluation, the formulation may be ACR / ARC / ARCR (any forms presenting well):

Application of law and rule for the current issue

Conclusion

Reasoning/Reason behind/Rationale

But IRAC is good for beginners.

Mistakes in forming Ans

You should make mistake as early as possible. Embrace failure during the first half of your course.

But you cannot make substantial mistakes 4 weeks before the examination. 

Mistakes are allowed in your notes but not in exam scripts because it is supposed to be the exact Ans. 

MMUCPE to PCLL

As an unofficial research, for 2017-2020, the ~minimum number for part-time admission could be 50, and ~max. 65 (2017) -> 74 (2019), 85 (2020). 

For full-time, the number is around 20 (could be more). 

Thus, Space's advertisement does not lie to you. Their admission rate is very high. 

The lowest mark for PT offer I have seen in person is 59 (MMUCPE), ~<2.8 (CityU LLB)

2 Years straight to PCLL

If you work hard, you can complete the conversion exam and skip the LLB (year 3). 

It is absolutely a good way to save one year study if you study really hard and have no financial issue.