ABSTRACT
This chapter examines student responses to questions regarding the amount of time spent reading and preparing for class and assessments; the amount of paid and volunteer work students do outside of the classroom; the extent to which they have family caring responsibilities; and the time they devote to leisure activities. It highlights the desirability of understanding the range of lifestyle patterns and pressures beyond students' course-based experiences that impacting their sense of balance and wellbeing during their time at law school. In determining the types and extent of external pressures on University of New South Wales (UNSW) law students, it is necessary to understand how much time students spend preparing for class. The extent of preparation appears to be attributable to broader cultural differences, possibly because of the undergraduate setting of the LLB. In the LLB there are different numbers of students enrolled in each concurrent degree programme.
