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billy99
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Posted - 07 February 2010 20:19
I've seen lots of posts on LPC/exam threads such as 'just be thankful you're not on the accelerated lpc'... can anyone shed light on just how bad it is? Have many students failed or something?
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Ash89
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People who do the LPC always say it's harder then it is. Accelerated LPC is good because you don't have the long drags and downtime of the normal LPC.
Since there isn't a lot of learning on the LPC, it really should be a doddle to do it at a faster pace. I hated the normal LPC because it was just so fvcking boring.
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billy99
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bump
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suffolk_star
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As someone who is in the first Accelerated LPC cohort, I can't really comment on what the "normal" LPC is like. What I would say is that it is clear that, by being able to cut a 10 month course down into 6 1/2 months with no reduction in teaching material, the "normal" LPC must be carrying some extra flab around the edges.
I think what is tough is the fact that over a 6 week period we did the assessments for Advocacy, PLR and Writing, Solicitors Accounts, PCR, Criminal Litigation, Civil Litigation, Draftihg, Property and BLP. Interviewing had been done in September. And then 1 day off before starting Stage 2, which was the first day off since the pace picked up at the end of August.
From what I can gather, on the normal LPC, these assessments are much more spread out and so therefore feel much more manageable, for want of a better word. A week off to prepare for a Mock Interview? And then another week off for the real thing? Ours were fitted around SGSs!
I wouldn't say that the content of the LPC is academically HARD in any way, just that there is a lot of it, and that with less time to do it in, it everything gets rather pressured.
We finish on Wednesday, some two weeks before the "normal" LPC-ers start their Stage 1 exams. Having moaned about the Accelerated LPC earlier, I will not be feeling AT ALL jealous as I walk out of BPP having FINISHED, some 4 months before I would have done otherwise. Or not. Anyone else thinking they'll be back on the 10th June for that Equity Finance re-take?
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highlighter
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I have found the accelerated course fairly unpleasant because it doesn't leave a lot of time to do much else and a genuinely full time LPC has therefore proved quite wearing. Also, it is stressful.
Lots of nervous, anxious people together for a lot of the time has resulted in lots of rumours (often hilarious) and personally a feeling of utter doom about tomorrow.
I'm sure I'll look back and laugh at having felt so awful about something so insignificant, but at the minute, I feel awful. But would still rather have got it all out of the way in 7 months.
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billy99
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It sounds like it's obviously achieveable but just a lot of added stress. This is probably also because the consortium firms (at least the one I'll be going to) will withdraw a TC if you do not pass every module 1st time round.
Is there anything worth doing in advance, to allow for a more relaxed LPC, and less stress about having the TC taken away, you think?
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suffolk_star
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Thing is, there isn't really anything that I can think of that you CAN do in advance of getting the pre-reading, which comes about a month before you start. The pre-reading doesn't take that long really - a week should do it.
Maybe be really ill before you start and get all the sickness bugs out of your system for the 6.5 month marathon ahead?! Things move very quickly on the Accelerated course and even missing a few days could cause major stress.
The real killer, for me anyway, were the non time-tabled tasks. These were often things that would be taught sessions on the normal LPC but were left to us to do in our own time. I reckon that they took up at least one day a week (normally Saturday) leaving Sunday to prepare for the week ahead and to catch ones breath from the week before.
So, in a rather convoluted way, there isn't really that you CAN do in terms of getting ahead. Just don't get ill!
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certified in tabbing statutes
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It was childishly simple. The only stressful part was listening to neurotic overambitious nutjobs complaining about having spent a bajillion hours in the library (usually not mentioning that 95% of it was spent messing around on Facebook).
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GluedToAHamster
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You're a cock aren't you Tabbing. Here's hoping retakes are in your immediate future.
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silence
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RUMOUR: Apparently Aston from JLS is doing Accelerated LPC, but Marvin stole his Butterworth's Company Law Handbook for SGS 3 so he got in trouble and Paul Marks sent him an email giving him a ticking off.
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highlighter
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Actually, tabbing isn't too far from the truth. Just depends whether you found the nutjobs stressful or hilarious...
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