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=Commercial Law=

I undertook this course in semester1 of the final year, as a core business subject that IKM degree required me to complete to be able to graduate. This course is an important learning leap that I can say, opened up my eyes on things I need to know about legal issues. This course aims to introduce students to two main legal dimensions: Negligence and Contract law. From past students, I heard that this course is one of the most difficult courses in this degree, with a test worth 30% and an exam worth 70%, which is a lot of marks allocated for an exam. Thus, since the start of Semester 1 of the final year, I was determined to do my absolute best to not only pass the course, but get a really good grade. The first part of this course teaches students about Negligence law and the relevant cases that support this law. I found Negligence very easy and I enjoyed studying it. For the mid semester test, which focused only on Negligence law, I could get a mark of 15/20, which was a very high mark compared to the majority of students. There was also an English test worth 10%, and I managed to get 9%, which was also a very good mark compared to other students. However, as we started studying Contract law, the course had become a lot harder and so much in depth. Compared to Negligence law, Contract Law was very difficult. During this time, I believed that academics of the course should suggest another test during the semester to ensure that students understand Contract law and are ready for the exam, since Contract law was about 70% of the whole course, and not only important academically, but very important in real life too. This is probably the only weakness I found in the course and still believe it is a weakness if Contract test won't be introduced during the semester. After the semester was over and exams were approaching, I spent about 6-8 hours per day for 3 weeks preparing for Commercial Law exam, and luckily, it was the only exam I had, so I had all the time to concentrate on it. I found the exam reasonably easy and I could easily finish it on time and read through it twice before submitting the exam booklet, and I was confident that I would be near Distinction or at least high Credit. I was very surprised when the results came out, I only got 60% overall, which meant I only barely passed the exam. This told me how much strict examiners were when marking the exam papers.

As how this course was a major learning leap; before undertaking this course, I barely ever read the terms and conditions of any sort of contract before signing it, which now after I studied Commercial Law, I think was a major mistake. I also had no knowledge about Negligence actions and how simple actions can be taken very seriously and could get people to stand in court with thousands of dollars charges. Also, I learned how the wording of advertisements have a major influence on court decisions. For example, if someone loses his pet in a market, they should be extremely careful about what to say in the advertisements, because otherwise, their incorrect wording can cost them a lot financially and perhaps emotionally. Hence, this course helped me open up my eyes on how people can take advantage of the gaps you may not be aware of, and how understanding the terms and conditions of contras are extremely important before signing any document, and also, ensuring that actions are justifiable so a person will not be held liable in court.

Looking back at how I could've achieved a better grade at this course, I think I have done all that I could and more to achieve a good result, and I am happy I achieved a grade of Credit because this course wasn't the easiest.

There are no assessment tasks for this course, as it only depended on two written tests and an exam.
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