FE-1 Property Exam

Horndawg

Hi all,

Hoping someone can help. I'm planning on sitting the property exam in September and was just wondering how the course has changed since last year. I gave up on property while I concentrated on the other subjects and haven't kept up with the changes. I have the 2008 griffith manual and was wondering if anyone can tell me if it's contents are still relevant in light of the new law reform act. I had a look at the syllabus on the law soc website and it looks unchanged to me.

I just don't want to start ploughing through my old notes if they're now obsolete.

Thanks.

Amre17

You'll have to wait for the law society to update the syllabus.. this usually isnt done until after results come out which should be the start of june i think.. until then there are parts of the syllabus which are untouched by the 2009 act: succession law, landlord and tenant law, family law and adverse possession that you can be kept busy with..

im guessin if the syllabus remains the same you'll probably have to be able to give the old position as background,the new law under the act and how/why the law was changed.. you should download the 2009 act and explanatory memorandum and study using both your manual and the act.. you might get lucky and a new book might come out in the meantime which should make it a bit easier..

Horndawg

That's great Amre. Thanks very much.

Amre17

no bother.. thats only what im guessing and what ill be doing if i dont pass property from the last sitting.. but id spend a bit of time on the topics that are untouched by the act to begin with, theyre all pretty important topics..

have you done company by any chance?

Horndawg

I passed company last October thankfully. So glad I don't have to sit it again.

Amre17

Did you use the companies acts in the exam? would you recommend using them and if so what version? goin about starting company now and wondering what version to to pick up..

Horndawg

I used the student edition of the CA published by Tottel. I did bring it in but didn't really use it. Looking around the exam hall most people had one with them and referred to them quite often. The reason I didn't use it was the wording in it can be quite confusing. Basically what I did was I sat down with my tutor and identified all of the acts you would need to be familiar with and had him essentially translate them for me, and I referenced them that way in the exam. Don't know if other people had to do this but my background is science so it was all very new to me.

To be honest I didn't need to bring it with me but I did as it was just one less thing to worry about on the morning.

brian__foley

there is a good bit of discussion on this in the main fe1 thread...links etc posted by students to good articles online and so on.