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FE1 Exam Thread (Read 1st post!) NOTICE: YOU MAY SWAP EXAM GRIDS
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Hi everyone! As a long time creeper of this thread, and having now passed all 8 Fe1s in 3 sittings, I thought I would just throw in my 2 cents.
First I'd like to thank the user @Teamhrach (dont think I can tag here) who left a tip for the equity exam last October, basically saying to make sure and cover joint accounts if you're doing secret trusts. I went back over that and it turned out to come up in the exam! So thank you!
how do I buy you a pint through this??
The main piece of advice I have for everyone is to expect the unexpected. I failed constitutional first time. Family came up on one question and I hadn't covered it. I felt afterwards it would have been a handy one to do so I covered that chapter for the next sitting, even though it wasn't a banker by any means. And what do you know - two questions on family! Similarly, when I was sitting equity I had a glance over mareva injunctions even though everyone was saying that never ever came up 2 years in a row and the grid showed a pattern of every other year for the past 15 years or something like that. But there it was on the paper, second time running! Again, when I sat EU, the banker question on institutions that always came up was nowhere to be seen.
Of course the grids are highly useful and I relied on them a lot in my studies. But nothing is for sure, you never know that your sitting might be the time a previously predictable examiner might decide to throw a curveball. Beware of mixed questions too. Of course you'll have to cut sections, but you might be very grateful in the paper if you learned even a definition or 2 cases from a weaker topic of yours if it's mixed in with a question about your best topic.
My second main piece of advice is - if you can afford the 115 euro at all, GET THE RECHECK! It's worth the gamble especially if you might lose your training contract or if it's your last exam. Guys, after tort last October sitting, I came out of that exam hall so depressed I went home and ate McDonalds out of the bag under the duvet. And if that's not a cry for help! It was no surprise that I failed that exam - and not by a narrow margin. I had no intention of rechecking but was encouraged to do so, so I sent in the application and the cheque the day before the deadline. And miracle of miracles, I came up 15 per cent! There are probably factors in the marking scheme that we aren't aware of at all - I wouldn't be surprised if in some instances they bump people up over the line if more people than average have failed or if they're getting complaints from law firms whose intake plans are being messed up. So do seriously consider applying for a recheck even if you're sure there's no hope.
Aside from that, it's really about putting in the tedious hours and learning off by heart all the cases. Some people get all 8 in two sittings, for others a certain exam just catches them several times. Remember that there is a huge element of luck to how nice a paper you get (pass rates fluctuate every year) and if your desired topics come up - your result is probably even affected by the examiner's mood or how your paper compares to the papers corrected immediately before it. So it's really a measure of chance more than anything else!0 -
TemptationWaits wrote: »Hi everyone! As a long time creeper of this thread, and having now passed all 8 Fe1s in 3 sittings, I thought I would just throw in my 2 cents.
First I'd like to thank the user @Teamhrach (dont think I can tag here) who left a tip for the equity exam last October, basically saying to make sure and cover joint accounts if you're doing secret trusts. I went back over that and it turned out to come up in the exam! So thank you! how do I buy you a pint through this??
The main piece of advice I have for everyone is to expect the unexpected. I failed constitutional first time. Family came up on one question and I hadn't covered it. I felt afterwards it would have been a handy one to do so I covered that chapter for the next sitting, even though it wasn't a banker by any means. And what do you know - two questions on family! Similarly, when I was sitting equity I had a glance over mareva injunctions even though everyone was saying that never ever came up 2 years in a row and the grid showed a pattern of every other year for the past 15 years or something like that. But there it was on the paper, second time running! Again, when I sat EU, the banker question on institutions that always came up was nowhere to be seen.
Of course the grids are highly useful and I relied on them a lot in my studies. But nothing is for sure, you never know that your sitting might be the time a previously predictable examiner might decide to throw a curveball. Beware of mixed questions too. Of course you'll have to cut sections, but you might be very grateful in the paper if you learned even a definition or 2 cases from a weaker topic of yours if it's mixed in with a question about your best topic.
My second main piece of advice is - if you can afford the 115 euro at all, GET THE RECHECK! It's worth the gamble especially if you might lose your training contract or if it's your last exam. Guys, after tort last October sitting, I came out of that exam hall so depressed I went home and ate McDonalds out of the bag under the duvet. And if that's not a cry for help! It was no surprise that I failed that exam - and not by a narrow margin. I had no intention of rechecking but was encouraged to do so, so I sent in the application and the cheque the day before the deadline. And miracle of miracles, I came up 15 per cent! There are probably factors in the marking scheme that we aren't aware of at all - I wouldn't be surprised if in some instances they bump people up over the line if more people than average have failed or if they're getting complaints from law firms whose intake plans are being messed up. So do seriously consider applying for a recheck even if you're sure there's no hope.
Aside from that, it's really about putting in the tedious hours and learning off by heart all the cases. Some people get all 8 in two sittings, for others a certain exam just catches them several times. Remember that there is a huge element of luck to how nice a paper you get (pass rates fluctuate every year) and if your desired topics come up - your result is probably even affected by the examiner's mood or how your paper compares to the papers corrected immediately before it. So it's really a measure of chance more than anything else!
Thank you for taking the time to write this out, needed that!0 -
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TemptationWaits wrote: »Hi everyone! As a long time creeper of this thread, and having now passed all 8 Fe1s in 3 sittings, I thought I would just throw in my 2 cents.
First I'd like to thank the user @Teamhrach (dont think I can tag here) who left a tip for the equity exam last October, basically saying to make sure and cover joint accounts if you're doing secret trusts. I went back over that and it turned out to come up in the exam! So thank you! how do I buy you a pint through this??
The main piece of advice I have for everyone is to expect the unexpected. I failed constitutional first time. Family came up on one question and I hadn't covered it. I felt afterwards it would have been a handy one to do so I covered that chapter for the next sitting, even though it wasn't a banker by any means. And what do you know - two questions on family! Similarly, when I was sitting equity I had a glance over mareva injunctions even though everyone was saying that never ever came up 2 years in a row and the grid showed a pattern of every other year for the past 15 years or something like that. But there it was on the paper, second time running! Again, when I sat EU, the banker question on institutions that always came up was nowhere to be seen.
Of course the grids are highly useful and I relied on them a lot in my studies. But nothing is for sure, you never know that your sitting might be the time a previously predictable examiner might decide to throw a curveball. Beware of mixed questions too. Of course you'll have to cut sections, but you might be very grateful in the paper if you learned even a definition or 2 cases from a weaker topic of yours if it's mixed in with a question about your best topic.
My second main piece of advice is - if you can afford the 115 euro at all, GET THE RECHECK! It's worth the gamble especially if you might lose your training contract or if it's your last exam. Guys, after tort last October sitting, I came out of that exam hall so depressed I went home and ate McDonalds out of the bag under the duvet. And if that's not a cry for help! It was no surprise that I failed that exam - and not by a narrow margin. I had no intention of rechecking but was encouraged to do so, so I sent in the application and the cheque the day before the deadline. And miracle of miracles, I came up 15 per cent! There are probably factors in the marking scheme that we aren't aware of at all - I wouldn't be surprised if in some instances they bump people up over the line if more people than average have failed or if they're getting complaints from law firms whose intake plans are being messed up. So do seriously consider applying for a recheck even if you're sure there's no hope.
Aside from that, it's really about putting in the tedious hours and learning off by heart all the cases. Some people get all 8 in two sittings, for others a certain exam just catches them several times. Remember that there is a huge element of luck to how nice a paper you get (pass rates fluctuate every year) and if your desired topics come up - your result is probably even affected by the examiner's mood or how your paper compares to the papers corrected immediately before it. So it's really a measure of chance more than anything else!
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HenryHodgson wrote: »Hello fellow nerds,
Does anyone have the list of topics which came up in the Company exam last time round?
Thanks
I listed it all a few pages back, should be quite helpful!0 -
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Hey - I called the Law Society yesterday about the exam reports and the lady was so nice and posted the whole lot of them out to my house for nothing! Got them today in a little book
So if they have them why are they not up online?! Madness.
Thanks for letting me know, I'll get onto them now! 0 -
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