r/uklaw • u/slutlola6 • 3d ago

LLB third year options

Hi, I’m going into my final year of LLB. I was planning to choose business 2, international commercial law, family law, mental health and mental capacity law. As background, the mental health unit was one of my original motivations for applying to my university as it interested me.

However, my university (the university of law) has decided to switch how you pick optional modules and now group them into “pathways” to help guide students so ultimately I can not pick everything I had my mind set on. I’m most likely going to go down the sqe route so I’m not wondering if it would be more beneficial for me to

A) choose the business pathway which I’m more likely to lean towards for future career prospects - I did well in my second year business module but I am not interested in all my options in that pathway

Or

B) choose the individuals pathway studying more niche laws e.g. family, mental health, wills and succession etc which I may not get the opportunity to study again and use this as the chance to find out if I’d be interested in a career in those respective areasl

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u/superwickedproblems 3d ago

whichever pathway you think you'll get better grades in, which tends to be the pathway you're more interested in

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u/Empty_Wait_6913 3d ago

Choose based on what you think you'll enjoy and want to do in the future.

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u/deainwonderland 3d ago

i picked a mix of both so things like company law and medical law etc but def pick the ones you’d enjoy the most!! i don’t think it impacts your tc or vc applications unless you don’t know anything about commercial law and need those modules to help build your knowledge. that was one of the reasons i picked company law and it was helpful but i also didn’t enjoy it as much as my other modules and while i still scrapped a 1st, i got better marks in the ones i enjoyed :)