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  • #2342
    EAL2019
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26 ✭EAL2019


    milktray22 wrote: »
    Stupid question and apologies in advance, but if you sit exam tomorrow and you fail, will law society let you sit the additional exam (whenever that my be) before October?

    I doubt it tbh, cause would be pretty unfair on people who sat all the other subjects


  • #2343
    bobbyness
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 84 ✭✭bobbyness


    milktray22 wrote: »
    Stupid question and apologies in advance, but if you sit exam tomorrow and you fail, will law society let you sit the additional exam (whenever that my be) before October?

    Doubt they'll let you have your cake, and eat it :)

    Unless you're asking if you'd be allowed to pay and do an early resit. Might be possible I suppose


  • #2344
    cowboy123456
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17 ✭cowboy123456


    awfully worried if I don't sit tomorrow that the additional exam will be more difficult/less predictable given all the extra time for study and fact that there aren't multiple exams on together. Very torn at the moment


  • #2345
    iamanengine
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,891 ✭✭✭iamanengine


    I decided to defer, but I feel terrible about it


  • #2346
    spygirl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 344 ✭✭spygirl


    milktray22 wrote: »
    Stupid question and apologies in advance, but if you sit exam tomorrow and you fail, will law society let you sit the additional exam (whenever that my be) before October?

    nope. Summer sittings will only be for those who elected not to sit tomorrow and Monday.
    Only EU and only Tort.


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  • #2347
    Sineaddh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 123 ✭✭Sineaddh


    spygirl wrote: »
    nope. Summer sittings will only be for those who elected not to sit tomorrow and Monday.
    Only EU and only Tort.

    Did law society confirm this?


  • #2348
    Reya10
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73 ✭✭Reya10


    Sineaddh wrote: »
    Did law society confirm this?

    Seems that way from how the email is worded


  • #2349
    iamanengine
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,891 ✭✭✭iamanengine


    Anyone who emailed, did you hear anything back?


  • #2350
    spygirl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 344 ✭✭spygirl


    iamanengine wrote: »
    I decided to defer, but I feel terrible about it

    If any consolation I feel the same way. Of all the exams Tort is the one I was most ready for.
    I changed topics in late January due to getting an appeal so Tort was the only subject I had been studying all along. The other exams where all last minute decisions.

    I am raging and worried I might be panicking, but so what if I am. It's better then the country being unable to contain it. I've a friend working in an italian hospital, spoke to her last few days and it is unreal over there atm.

    If skipping the exam helps avoid that situation at all then it's the right choice. Not making it for myself, making it for family.

    TBH was not comfortable sitting any of them with whats going on.


  • #2351
    Law1997
    Closed Accounts Posts: 83 ✭✭Law1997


    Surely we’ve all been exposed to the virus already so what’s the point in deferring? The virus won’t magically get worse tomorrow because of the announcement. I’m sitting tort on Monday.


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  • #2352
    iamanengine
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,891 ✭✭✭iamanengine


    Law1997 wrote: »
    Surely we’ve all been exposed to the virus already so what’s the point in deferring? The virus won’t magically get worse tomorrow because of the announcement. I’m sitting tort on Monday.

    That's not the point, the point is that they gave me this huge decision to make the day before my exam so instead of cramming for the day I spent it worrying, and wasted the entire day, so now I'm completely unprepared for the exam.

    Had they just said exams are going ahead I would have been perfectly fine. It was the choice that completely threw me


  • #2353
    spygirl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 344 ✭✭spygirl


    Law1997 wrote: »
    Surely we’ve all been exposed to the virus already so what’s the point in deferring? The virus won’t magically get worse tomorrow because of the announcement. I’m sitting tort on Monday.

    The point in deferring is that if you were exposed you don't pass it to someone else who wasn't.


  • #2354
    Law1997
    Closed Accounts Posts: 83 ✭✭Law1997


    iamanengine wrote: »
    That's not the point, the point is that they gave me this huge decision to make the day before my exam so instead of cramming for the day I spent it worrying, and wasted the entire day, so now I'm completely unprepared for the exam.

    Had they just said exams are going ahead I would have been perfectly fine. It was the choice that completely threw me


    I get it threw you off. I just don’t understand how much prep you’d get done the DAY before the exam. The prep is all the hard work that goes in in the months beforehand. It’s not a one night cram job. But of course it’s everyone’s own personal decision.


  • #2355
    Law1997
    Closed Accounts Posts: 83 ✭✭Law1997


    spygirl wrote: »
    The point in deferring is that if you were exposed you don't pass it to someone else who wasn't.

    But we don’t know who’s exposed and who isn’t!


  • #2356
    CiaranS93
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 106 ✭✭CiaranS93


    Law1997 wrote: »
    I get it threw you off. I just don’t understand how much prep you’d get done the DAY before the exam. The prep is all the hard work that goes in in the months beforehand. It’s not a one night cram job. But of course it’s everyone’s own personal decision.

    The day before is when I gain most of the knowledge..


  • #2357
    Sineaddh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 123 ✭✭Sineaddh


    Law1997 wrote: »
    But we don’t know who’s exposed and who isn’t!

    It shouldn’t be risked!


  • #2358
    ihatethesea
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 74 ✭✭ihatethesea


    Law1997 wrote: »
    I get it threw you off. I just don’t understand how much prep you’d get done the DAY before the exam. The prep is all the hard work that goes in in the months beforehand. It’s not a one night cram job. But of course it’s everyone’s own personal decision.

    I get A LOT done the day before, it's so so so crucial, personally


  • #2359
    Law1997
    Closed Accounts Posts: 83 ✭✭Law1997


    Sineaddh wrote: »
    It shouldn’t be risked!

    It already has though hahaha


  • #2360
    rightytighty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 434 ✭✭rightytighty


    As if the Law Society won’t gladly take the money of anyone wanting to sit the additional sitting.


  • #2361
    spygirl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 344 ✭✭spygirl


    Law1997 wrote: »
    But we don’t know who’s exposed and who isn’t!

    Which is kind of the whole point.
    You might be grand, but what if you are not, or someone else at the hotel is not.

    State is asking people to stay away from mass gatherings. Jump in numbers, it's about containment now. Possibly we are all over reacting, very real possibility.
    However, what if we aren't.

    Personally, just can't risk bringing it home. Will be staying away from all mass gatherings, cancelled a wedding due to attend two weeks from now as well. Hopefully we are all over reacting, I really hope so. Either way limit exposure.

    Plus how much did you manage to get done today as a result of earlier news.


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  • #2362
    Sineaddh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 123 ✭✭Sineaddh


    Law1997 wrote: »
    It already has though hahaha

    Not necessarily.
    Many people may only have been sitting one or two subjects which might be tort and EU as much as any other subjects!

    It’s this kind of complacency that puts the country most at risk, every institution and individual has a responsibility to mitigate the risk of spread as much as possible and that’s why this is such a difficult decision to be left up to already stressed candidates


  • #2363
    BlackhallPlz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27 ✭BlackhallPlz


    Law1997 wrote: »
    It already has though hahaha


    Yes and it now needs to minimised and mitigated as best it can be. There is no way a decision that ultimately was taken at government level should have been left to students to interpret. Everyone would have understood if the exams had been postponed. Yes, it would be annoying to have them hanging over a little longer, but the whole country is going to suffer in some way - exams are not life and death.


  • #2364
    Law1997
    Closed Accounts Posts: 83 ✭✭Law1997


    Sineaddh wrote: »
    Not necessarily.
    Many people may only have been sitting one or two subjects which might be tort and EU as much as any other subjects!

    It’s this kind of complacency that puts the country most at risk, every institution and individual has a responsibility to mitigate the risk of spread as much as possible and that’s why this is such a difficult decision to be left up to already stressed candidates


    If the government wanted them to be called off, the guidelines would have been more direct. People are encouraged to go to work. The country is not gone into lockdown.
    However, as I’ve said, it’s everyone’s own personal decision! 😊


  • #2365
    Hamerzan Sickles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 147 ✭✭Hamerzan Sickles


    iamanengine wrote: »
    Anyone who emailed, did you hear anything back?

    No, not yet anyway. I'd say there are dealing with an onslaught of emails, we might not get a confirmation email tbh.


  • #2366
    spygirl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 344 ✭✭spygirl


    Both mine and my husbands jobs have closed. The advise is where possible work from home.

    We are about two weeks behind Italy and they are like a warzone now. Containment, limit your chances of coming into contact with it or spreading it is best option now to avoid winding up like them.


  • #2367
    SwD
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 137 ✭✭SwD


    If you’ve decided not to sit them, stop stressing. It’s over.

    Don’t feel guilty about making a decision that supported not only by the government, but by the Commission and the WHO.

    The exams are still going to be there in a couple of months, before blackhall 2020 and you’ll sit it then. You’re no worse off by not sitting it with the alternative option.


  • #2368
    iamanengine
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,891 ✭✭✭iamanengine


    SwD wrote: »
    If you’ve decided not to sit them, stop stressing. It’s over.

    Don’t feel guilty about making a decision that supported not only by the government, but by the Commission and the WHO.

    The exams are still going to be there in a couple of months, before blackhall 2020 and you’ll sit it then. You’re no worse off by not sitting it with the alternative option.

    I needed that


  • #2369
    spygirl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 344 ✭✭spygirl


    So how was property?


  • #2370
    lawgirl23
    Closed Accounts Posts: 111 ✭✭lawgirl23


    iamanengine wrote: »
    Anyone who emailed, did you hear anything back?

    Yes, I got a reply confirming that the venue remains as the Red Cow but that they may be in different rooms and that there will be signage telling us where to go. I then replied asking could I still hand in my legislation tomorrow morning, as I didn’t give it in today just in case the exam was cancelled. Got a reply confirming that yes, I can still hand in my EU legislation tomorrow morning.

    Best of luck to anybody deciding to go ahead tomorrow or Monday.


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  • #2371
    Sineaddh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 123 ✭✭Sineaddh


    Law1997 wrote: »
    If the government wanted them to be called off, the guidelines would have been more direct. People are encouraged to go to work. The country is not gone into lockdown.
    However, as I’ve said, it’s everyone’s own personal decision! 😊

    The government are doing the complete opposite to encouraging people to go to work. Everyone is being told to work from home.


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