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

Tom Young

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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

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

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

iamanengine

I decided to defer, but I feel terrible about it

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.

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?

Reya10

Sineaddh wrote: »

Did law society confirm this?

Seems that way from how the email is worded

iamanengine

Anyone who emailed, did you hear anything back?

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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!

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..

Sineaddh

Law1997 wrote: »

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

It shouldn’t be risked!

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

Law1997

Sineaddh wrote: »

It shouldn’t be risked!

It already has though hahaha

rightytighty

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

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.

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

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.

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! ðŸ˜Š

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.

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.

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.

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

spygirl

So how was property?

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.

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! ðŸ˜Š

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