The thing is that with such intensively short terms, we don't actually learn anything as we go along, we just take copious notes and hope that somehow by osmosis some of it will go in. Then exam term is ridiculous, with everyone stressing and panicking and spending all their time in the library and 80% of people getting a 2nd anyway. I'm refusing to stress and panic because I am here to enjoy my uni degree and study things I care about, not spend hours sweating blood because I can't remember which chapter of Justinian's Institutes refers to the action granted to the owner of a slave whose leg is broken in a fight.
Some people work incredibly hard and get incredibly good grades - the 5% of law students who get 1st class honours degrees do this. The rest of us work hard in bursts, play hard in longer bursts, and get a 2nd class honours degree. The people who fail are the ones who have had something awful happen, like a serious illness or a death in the family, but decide to take the exams anyway, or who spent their entire time getting drunk and sleeping all day.
Anyway, this is clearly procrastination so I'm going back to revising. Honest.