Failing in first semester is an unfortunate, but necessary experience for some law students. It can be difficult to find an appropriate response as an educator, particularly where a student tries hard but fails by a narrow margin. Repeating a unit can put a student behind, especially where there is no summer school option and a student's subjects get out of sync with their peers. Supplementary assessment just seems to set students up to fail at the same task that we already know they have a problem with. Disturbingly, there seems to be an increasing trend toward blaming the teaching in these situations. 'Extra Life' was an idea we cooked up to develop a different path which integrates students back into the learning community.
