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

Tom Young

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lsheehaneire wrote: »

I am also hoping to start the hybrid in dec/jan. The refund probably means that the cost to sit the exam from the comfort of your own home will not be the same as would be charged to physically sit the exam in various venues , so maybe there will will be a slight refund based on the difference? It's quite clear when people are communicating with the LS individually we are all getting different answers. They told me the third week in September so technically that could be as early as the 14th ....we will have to wait and see ðŸ™ˆ

How does the hybrid work?

LawCopy16

Yeah I forgot that there would be people starting in January who would need to do them ASAP. I couldn't see them giving a partial refund though given that even if there wasn't a physical cost to holding them they would probably need the money to invest in software to hold them remotely and the timetable also said that a "full refund" would be given if they didn't go ahead. Ultimately though it's the Law Society and they definitely are just giving different answers to everyone anyway.

lsheehaneire

https://www.lawsociety.ie/Trainees/PPC-Courses/ppc-hybrid/

Dliodoir2020

Just wanting to know what experiences people had with rechecks.

The €115 cost seems prohibitively expensive but, if your mark increases is the amount refunded? What's the turnaround time?

I got 43% in Tort which I feel is quite low because I thought I passed it when I came out of the exam. Is there any point in rechecking it because it feels like the gap is too great?

Coopie

Dliodoir2020 wrote: »

Just wanting to know what experiences people had with rechecks.

The €115 cost seems prohibitively expensive but, if your mark increases is the amount refunded? What's the turnaround time?

I got 43% in Tort which I feel is quite low because I thought I passed it when I came out of the exam. Is there any point in rechecking it because it feels like the gap is too great?

Get it rechecked. It will take ages to get a refund though.

Lealaw

Just wondering with the time pressure in the exam how much are people generally able to write, obviously this differs person to person based on speed etc but it would be great to know if I am anywhere near the necessary on it? Thanks

IgoPAP

Lealaw wrote: »

Just wondering with the time pressure in the exam how much are people generally able to write, obviously this differs person to person based on speed etc but it would be great to know if I am anywhere near the necessary on it? Thanks

I do 3-4 pages per question and I have big handwriting.

Dliodoir2020

Depending on how big your handwriting is, I'd aim for 2.5 - 4 pages.

Fe1student1234

Lealaw wrote: »

Just wondering with the time pressure in the exam how much are people generally able to write, obviously this differs person to person based on speed etc but it would be great to know if I am anywhere near the necessary on it? Thanks

Honestly it depends on the question and your handwriting. Mine have ranged from 6/7 pages to some questions only writing 2.5/3 pages.
If you’ve answered the question and hit the main points in 3 pages then I’d say that’d be enough to write

Lealaw

Fe1student1234 wrote: »

Honestly it depends on the question and your handwriting. Mine have ranged from 6/7 pages to some questions only writing 2.5/3 pages.
If you’ve answered the question and hit the main points in 3 pages then I’d say that’d be enough to write

Wowzer, fair play hitting 6-7 and still completing all 5 questions, that's fast writing. Thanks for letting me know!

Coopie

Dliodoir2020 wrote: »

Just wanting to know what experiences people had with rechecks.

The €115 cost seems prohibitively expensive but, if your mark increases is the amount refunded? What's the turnaround time?

I got 43% in Tort which I feel is quite low because I thought I passed it when I came out of the exam. Is there any point in rechecking it because it feels like the gap is too great?

Get it rechecked. It will take ages to get a refund though.

IgoPAP

Being able to write reams of pages is not at all impressive or an indication of a good answer anyways. The biggest criticism found in the Examiners Report is that students write on irrelevant topics or issues, or scribe out pre-prepared answers.

A short, succinct 2 page answer that hits on all the points is much better than some rambling nonsense that goes on for 7 pages.

Fe1

Hey, does anyone have papers for or even know the topics that came up in - Property March 2020, Contract March 2020, Criminal March 2020? Any help would be much appreciated!

Fe1

'August 2020 FE-1 results. The provisional date for the release of results of the above examination is Monday 28 September.'
I guess all repeats for Tort and EU will have to be in March?

IgoPAP

Fe1 wrote: »

'August 2020 FE-1 results. The provisional date for the release of results of the above examination is Monday 28 September.'
I guess all repeats for Tort and EU will have to be in March?

Dear God. I thought its being released in the third week of September so that re-checks can be applied before the 16th? Now it's being released at the end of September? Huh?

Iso_123

Oh my god the results being released the week before the October exam is a disaster:( That certainly will not do anything for the nerves if it turns out we failed..

nicolesd

i have emailed the law society there complaining about the provisional date i think its so unfair! it leaves next to no time to prepare if we end up failing! its absolutely shocking!

Bex20

The LS aren’t going to change the date for the results and I can’t see how emailing to complain about the date is going to get anyone anywhere. People are still waiting for copies of scripts since May so the chances of even getting to see the script or get a recheck before October is highly unlikely.

The exams are normally only held in March and October. The sitting in August was an additional sitting and was mainly people for people heading to Blackhall in September or who had originally applied to sit the exams in March. It just so happened that other people were lucky they were able to benefit from it and apply to sit the exams.

I would be planning to sit/ be studying for other subjects and if needs be resit in March. In saying that I know that the LS have excepted applications after the deadline date before but that would mean studying for tort or eu now as well as anything else which could be a waste of time.

Lallers96

Half tempted not to even look at my results for fear it's bad news, because that would destroy my morale for Octobers exams and would cause a lot of stress and hassle chasing the law society on the scripts, and doing a recheck..

LJones18

Has anyone had trouble actually logging onto the law society's website?

I have been trying every day and it doesn't load up for me.

jewels652

For those starting ppc1 I got a information pack from the ls but it doesn’t seem to be the right one. How many forms should I submit ?
I have form 1, form 2A, and annexed 1 and 2A but somewhere else I see form 4,5 and 6. Can somebody please help me not getting much guidance from the ls.

Thanks

Lallers96

November is way too late. We just have to accept, as crap as it is, that if someone fails one of Tort or EU, that you'll just have to sit it in March for a resit, if you don't pass on a recheck.

aisoburke1994

I would be open to start a petition. Currently I am working abroad, so it would be great if they could be moved

Fe1student1234

Lallers96 wrote: »

Half tempted not to even look at my results for fear it's bad news, because that would destroy my morale for Octobers exams and would cause a lot of stress and hassle chasing the law society on the scripts, and doing a recheck..

I’m thinking the same tbh. Can’t afford to mess up this sitting thinking about the August ones.

LJones18

I think they definitely should be postponed given we might only get results a week or so before.

Fe1student1234

Tbh I think we have to realize there are only two examiners that are allowed correct our scripts. They had over 1000 in each exam. While I do think that the results for everyone else are a bit late in September I don’t think we could have expected them within 3 weeks when the usual process is 6.

LS3

LJones18 wrote: »

I think they definitely should be postponed given we might only get results a week or so before.

I dont think we need to be petitioning them to move the October exams. I think we need to be petitioning them to move the results date forward!

[Deleted User]

I’m actually speechless with the provisional results date. And that tort is then the FIRST exam to be held a bare week later. It’s extremely unfair. It’s worrying to be putting so much into starting a career with the LS when they clearly just do not care about us or our mental health.

I would love to do something petitionwise, preferably I’d want my results quicker but perhaps even try for another sitting of Tort/EU a month later?

Also with regards the number of students who sat them, I sat tort in Cork and there was max 50 students in the only hall used. I know there was one other cork venue and heard of 2 Dublin ones. Unless there was multiple rooms in the other venues that leaves approx 200 students.

Fe1student1234

Deleted User wrote: »

I’m actually speechless with the provisional results date. And that tort is then the FIRST exam to be held a bare week later. It’s extremely unfair. It’s worrying to be putting so much into starting a career with the LS when they clearly just do not care about us or our mental health.

I would love to do something petitionwise, preferably I’d want my results quicker but perhaps even try for another sitting of Tort/EU a month later?

Also with regards the number of students who sat them, I sat tort in Cork and there was max 50 students in the only hall used. I know there was one other cork venue and heard of 2 Dublin ones. Unless there was multiple rooms in the other venues that leaves approx 200 students.

So does your exam number have no bearing on the amount of students ? I genuinely thought that’s how it worked, my exam number was over 2000. There were three cork ones and three Dublin ones with 50 in each room. There were multiple rooms used in the venue I was in

[Deleted User]

Fe1student1234 wrote: »

So does your exam number have no bearing on the amount of students ? I genuinely thought that’s how it worked, my exam number was over 2000. There were three cork ones and three Dublin ones with 50 in each room

It may do! I just didn’t think it added up to over 2000 as I had only heard of the metropole and rochestown Park in cork and croke park and The RDS in Dublin so estimated 200. My number was in the 500s alright so perhaps the 2000 is a combination of students sitting EU and Tort?