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Follow The Syllabus Key point 2: Follow the syllabus not lecturer! Another thing you need to keep in mind is as you follow the syllabi, the BSB will change certain parts of it throughout the year thus requiring you to re-download the syllabi. Always remember this because your school may not inform you of these changes either because the BSB will not bother to tell BPTC schools or your school could not be bothered to inform you. During my time, there were major changes made in December which I only became aware of by accident. At no point during this period were my classmates and I informed by the school as to these major changes. I ended up discarding about 50% of my already made Criminal Litigation notes and had to make new notes. Thankfully, when further minor changes were made around March, the school did inform us of it. A final piece of advice I would give in regards to this is do not listen to lecturers who tell you this or that is in the syllabi when there is nothing in the BSB syllabi outline that matches up with what your lecturer is saying. The BSB has the final word on what comes out in these externally assessed papers NOT your lecturer.