FE1 Exam Thread (Read 1st post!) NOTE: YOU MAY SWAP EXAM GRIDS

Healyjhow

Don’t even want to post mortem that paper I really feeling I was grasping at straws ... all my case law knowledge just disintegrated and got stuck with two essay questions I couldn’t even re read cause I had the fear of my life hahahah anyone want to share what their studying for EU so I can attempt to redeem myself ?

godfather2

Healyjhow wrote: »

Don’t even want to post mortem that paper I really feeling I was grasping at straws ... all my case law knowledge just disintegrated and got stuck with two essay questions I couldn’t even re read cause I had the fear of my life hahahah anyone want to share what their studying for EU so I can attempt to redeem myself ?

Saving EU torture for a future date, my own case law fell out of my head in large chunks as well so feel your pain. Might not have been as bad as you fear. Pressure often makes diamonds.

Healyjhow

I hope so, I had to stop mid exam to have a good old laugh at myself ... can’t win them all I suppose

godfather2 wrote: »

Saving EU torture for a future date, my own case law fell out of my head in large chunks as well so feel your pain. Might not have been as bad as you fear. Pressure often makes diamonds.

Seeing as next round is just 8 weeks away surely these results will be well before the usual 6 weeks?

Louis Litt

Anyone know what kind of a marker they are for Tort? any stories of ppl coming out with the pass after a couple of poor questons

ihatethesea

nmurphy1441 wrote: »

Predictions???

I second this, hope Tort went well for everyone! Any predictions for EU??

lsheehaneire

Is it definitely 8 weeks ?

lsheehaneire

lsheehaneire wrote: »

Is it definitely 8 weeks ?

Law soc said 6-15 October provisionally!

JCormac

I feel like a lot of those questions had multiple possible routes you could have taken.

Like Nervous Shock or Wilkinson or Employer Liability for the question on yer one in the office.

Or the tort of Nuisance or Negligence for the guy who couldn't stop smoking. Maybe it was just me that said Negligence. Oof

MrAlex123

Word of caution for any FE1 'first timers'-- a few of the top firms only accept trainees who complete all FE1s within a certain number of sittings (e.g. 3). Worth bearing in mind when planning your topics for October as today is likely to count as 1/3 of your sittings! Wish someone had told me this when I started

godfather2

Louis Litt wrote: »

Anyone know what kind of a marker they are for Tort? any stories of ppl coming out with the pass after a couple of poor questons

Very hard to predict but fair if that helps. I'll be back in the revision tonight as don't think I got there this time. Feel like I'm in the mid 40s. 8wks and back to swing again for me. Liked the topics but struggled to remember my case law.

MrAlex123

MrAlex123 wrote: »

Word of caution for any FE1 'first timers'-- a few of the top firms only accept trainees who complete all FE1s within a certain number of sittings (e.g. 3). Worth bearing in mind when planning your topics for October as today is likely to count as 1/3 of your sittings! Wish someone had told me this when I started

What! I’ve never heard that!
Very harsh especially now they’ve gotten rid of the magic 3 rule I thought that would take the pressure off!

godfather2

JCormac wrote: »

I feel like a lot of those questions had multiple possible routes you could have taken.

Like Nervous Shock or Wilkinson or Employer Liability for the question on yer one in the office.

Or the tort of Nuisance or Negligence for the guy who couldn't stop smoking. Maybe it was just me that said Negligence. Oof[/QUOTE

I said negligence as well. I ran through nuisance and said might not apply as not a substantial period of time as had moved in a few weeks ago and, started throwing them on the green, better chance of recovery under negligence

Lallers96

I've heard from people in law firms that it looks bad if you take longer than 2 years to do the FE1s. So that's 4 sittings, 5 if you include this week. That was on an advisory night organised by the law soc in NUIG and they were opinions of people from A&L Goodbody.

Lallers96

We got "called out" by a well known advisor on the FE1s haha, full on called regular posters on boards.ie spoofers

Lallers96

MrAlex123 wrote: »

Excuse my brevity, but who is 'we', what do you mean 'called out', what/who is a 'well known advisor on the FE1s"? Thanks

We as in regular posters on boards.ie and by called out I mean, called spoofers and that reading and following threads on boards.ie is a bad idea, and regular posters do not have your best interests at heart, especially people sitting the same exam as you.

The well known advisor is someone on instagram, and has done very well in the FE1s in the past. If you don't know off the bat who it is from that then I don't think you know of them, in which case it's pointless information.

Nothing wrong with what she said, I just found it funny really and I disagree with it

ihatethesea

My God I don't think I would have passed some of my FE1's without fellow Boards posters haha!

MrAlex123

Lallers96 wrote: »

We as in regular posters on boards.ie and by called out I mean, called spoofers and that reading and following threads on boards.ie is a bad idea, and regular posters do not have your best interests at heart, especially people sitting the same exam as you.

The well known advisor is someone on instagram, and has done very well in the FE1s in the past. If you don't know off the bat who it is from that then I don't think you know of them, in which case it's pointless information.

Nothing wrong with what she said, I just found it funny really and I disagree with it

Gotcha thanks! Sounds like a Hero.

godfather2

Good luck to one and all for Thursday, going to bow out of here so the posts are all entirely EU based for a bit. Best of luck lads.

iamanengine

nmurphy1441 wrote: »

Predictions???

No real predictions, just cover the usual suspects -

Institutions
Direct Effect/MS Liability
General Principles
Citizenship
Goods
Workers
Judicial Review
Competition

iamanengine

Lallers96 wrote: »

We as in regular posters on boards.ie and by called out I mean, called spoofers and that reading and following threads on boards.ie is a bad idea, and regular posters do not have your best interests at heart, especially people sitting the same exam as you.

The well known advisor is someone on instagram, and has done very well in the FE1s in the past. If you don't know off the bat who it is from that then I don't think you know of them, in which case it's pointless information.

Nothing wrong with what she said, I just found it funny really and I disagree with it

Lol, I just checked insta and seen the video

Think she is so wrong, this thread has been a massive help to me personally and to suggest people intentionally put up incorrect information is really unfair. I always do my best to help others and feel I've been treated similarly. It's a nice community on here and people genuinely look out for each other, in my experience.

Y'all are great x

channing90

Lallers96 wrote: »

We got "called out" by a well known advisor on the FE1s haha, full on called regular posters on boards.ie spoofers

That was an embarrassing call out from her, I have Found this forum very helpful and the first time I sat the fe1s I wasn’t looking at this And I failed, loads of very nice helpful people on this forum.

EmmaO94

MrAlex123 wrote: »

Word of caution for any FE1 'first timers'-- a few of the top firms only accept trainees who complete all FE1s within a certain number of sittings (e.g. 3). Worth bearing in mind when planning your topics for October as today is likely to count as 1/3 of your sittings! Wish someone had told me this when I started

To be honest I've never heard this before! I have a TC at a top 10 firm and number of sittings wasn't discussed at all - nor was it mentioned in any other TC applications I filled in, incl top tier firms (and I did a LOT!) I don't think it's something worth stressing over really in the grand scheme of things, from anecdotal evidence it's not something that's commonly brought up :-)

EmmaO94

iamanengine wrote: »

Lol, I just checked insta and seen the video

Think she is so wrong, this thread has been a massive help to me personally and to suggest people intentionally put up incorrect information is really unfair. I always do my best to help others and feel I've been treated similarly. It's a nice community on here and people genuinely look out for each other, in my experience.

Y'all are great x

Would anyone be willing to divulge her name, be it by PM?!

Wonderstruck

[Deleted User] wrote: »

What! I’ve never heard that!
Very harsh especially now they’ve gotten rid of the magic 3 rule I thought that would take the pressure off!

God could law get any more elitest! I think I might change my location to "spoofing on boards" as I'm a semi pro after 10 years.

MrAlex123

EmmaO94 wrote: »

To be honest I've never heard this before! I have a TC at a top 10 firm and number of sittings wasn't discussed at all - nor was it mentioned in any other TC applications I filled in, incl top tier firms (and I did a LOT!) I don't think it's something worth stressing over really in the grand scheme of things, from anecdotal evidence it's not something that's commonly brought up :-)

It wasn't included in any of the TC applications I completed either. But it is an express clause in my TC!

Defo not something to stress over, but certainly something to be cognisant of going forward

IgoPAP

MrAlex123 wrote: »

It wasn't included in any of the TC applications I completed either. But it is an express clause in my TC!

Defo not something to stress over, but certainly something to be cognisant of going forward

Does it apply retrospectively or only going forward? I'll have done 3 sittings before I graduate

Wonderstruck

IgoPAP wrote: »

Does it apply retrospectively or only going forward? I'll have done 3 sittings before I graduate

That's pretty amazing three sittings before you graduate!!! I began them 2 years after graduating!

MrAlex123

IgoPAP wrote: »

Does it apply retrospectively or only going forward? I'll have done 3 sittings before I graduate

I am so sorry I haven't a clue! Seriously can't imagine them applying it retrospectively to college students - they'd only be delighted to have someone like you who's tackling these exams while in college!

Seziertisch

Anyone thinking they might have to resit Tort, I’d recommend checking out Val Corbett’s Tort Cases in a Nutshell. I got gifted a copy and found it so good that I used it instead of the manual for most of my exam prep.

The layout and writing is vastly superior to the manual I had been using, providing a lot more useful information in a lot less space.