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

Twinings2016 · 13-10-2020 06:53PM

Hi there! Does anyone have the exam grid from city colleges and/or any predictions for Constitutional this sitting? Am very over-whelmed by it!

illy.m · 13-10-2020 06:53PM

Does anyone remember what came up in Equity in the last sitting? I can't locate my paper.

Dliodoir2021 · 13-10-2020 06:57PM

Company / Contract papers

Would anyone be able to email me any of these papers from the last two sittings? I have notes for all subjects if anyone wants them in exchange

FE.ONE · 13-10-2020 07:05PM

Could somebody please send me on an up to date Criminal grid if they have it? Have been working off a 2018 one until now, not doing myself any favours. Have plenty to swap in return!

nmurphy1441 · 13-10-2020 07:50PM

Fe123 wrote: »

How long does it take people on average to fully learn a topic ðŸ˜

Depends really! For example, I’ve no undergrad and I took up EU law in May for the August sitting and I passed it. So 3 and a half months! Tort and Constitutional would take longer I think and the rest would be shorter or around the same!

fe1student2803 · 13-10-2020 08:00PM

DFMCD190384 wrote: »

I found it hard too but he is a very decent marker. I wrote out all of my topics and then I used a recording app on my phone. I recorded all my legislation and sections and found that after a couple of listens I was singing it back to myself. Worked for me. I covered Sexual Offences, Non Fatal Offences Against Person, Murder Manslaughter, theft offences, all the Defences and also MR and AR. Hope this helps.

EmmaO94 wrote: »

I too found it really difficult - not helped by most people calling it an 'easy' FE1! I failed it first time - got my topics all jumbled up and confused in my head.

Second time (passed with 58 thank god!) I studied grids to help narrow it down and just poured over past papers. It helped to be aware that there's a lot of topic mixing in this paper, so be prepared for that.

As they say, study a mile-wide but an inch deep, and I think that's particularly pertinent for the papers where a lot of topic mixing is involved; you don't want to get stung by a nasty 'part b' etc of a question!

From memory, I studied homicide (guaranteed question), rape & sexual offences (also pretty much guaranteed), manslaughter, assault etc, offences against property, right to silence & bail. Hope this helps!

Thank you both so much!

APower79 · 13-10-2020 08:35PM

Hi. Did anyone sit criminal in March? Any surprises and what were the essay questions please? Thanks!!

Lawlaw12 · 13-10-2020 08:48PM

APower79 wrote: »

Hi. Did anyone sit criminal in March? Any surprises and what were the essay questions please? Thanks!!

There was an essay on omissions, and I think that was the only essay Q!

Although one of the problem questions was an 'answer (a) AND (b)' question and part B was to advise them on the presumption of innocence, so that was basically an essay Q presumption of innocence

APower79 · 13-10-2020 09:06PM

Lawlaw12 wrote: »

There was an essay on omissions, and I think that was the only essay Q!

Although one of the problem questions was an 'answer (a) AND (b)' question and part B was to advise them on the presumption of innocence, so that was basically an essay Q presumption of innocence

Thank you. And do we need to know the sentences for offences, eg sections of the 1997 Act? I don’t remember being told we needed to know them. Thanks again

shaunadennyham · 13-10-2020 09:22PM

APower79 wrote: »

Thank you. And do we need to know the sentences for offences, eg sections of the 1997 Act? I don’t remember being told we needed to know them. Thanks again

I just learnt the act and tbh they’re all usually 1990something and the sentences are 3 months, 6 months, 12 months, 7 years, 14 years or life !!

Lawlaw12 · 13-10-2020 09:24PM

APower79 wrote: »

Thank you. And do we need to know the sentences for offences, eg sections of the 1997 Act? I don’t remember being told we needed to know them. Thanks again

If you can remember the sentences it's good to throw them in in your conclusion, but I doubt you'd lose marks for not having them.
The elements of the offence and the caselaw would be more important imo

EmmaO94 · 14-10-2020 09:29AM

Lawlaw12 wrote: »

If you can remember the sentences it's good to throw them in in your conclusion, but I doubt you'd lose marks for not having them.
The elements of the offence and the caselaw would be more important imo

My lecturer said the sentences weren't on the syllabus so to forget about them (don't know if that was strictly true!!) so I totally left them out and still passed

One less thing to worry about!

nmurphy1441 · 14-10-2020 09:38AM

Any tips/topics to cover for property?

fe1student2803 · 14-10-2020 09:49AM

Does anyone have a criminal law grid up to March 2020?

lawDani · 14-10-2020 09:58AM

any body have copies of last two sitting of contracts exams? SOS

fe1fi20 · 14-10-2020 10:06AM

Do you guys still think we will need the hard copy acts even though the exams are online?

maggie95 · 14-10-2020 10:27AM

fe1fi20 wrote: »

Do you guys still think we will need the hard copy acts even though the exams are online?

I would say so; I can't imagine them letting us have the various acts open on our computers as they won't be able to see what we're actually looking at so it could be anything.
(This is just my guess, maybe I'm wrong!)

StabiloLaw · 14-10-2020 10:59AM

fe1fi20 wrote: »

Do you guys still think we will need the hard copy acts even though the exams are online?

We needed the hard copies for online August sittings, and we had to flick through to show there was no writing on them.
They could have requested to see the page at any time and that kinda thing!

awsah · 14-10-2020 11:05AM

StabiloLaw wrote: »

We needed the hard copies for online August sittings, and we had to flick through to show there was no writing on them.
They could have requested to see the page at any time and that kinda thing!

Did they do that in practice,like I dont want to be in the middle of writing a question and then they stop me to ask to show my book! Do they ask to look around the room after the first time also, I feel like we should get more time if so!

StabiloLaw · 14-10-2020 11:19AM

awsah wrote: »

Did they do that in practice,like I dont want to be in the middle of writing a question and then they stop me to ask to show my book! Do they ask to look around the room after the first time also, I feel like we should get more time if so!

They said they can, but it didn't happen for me.

I imagine if you start looking off to the side, or are acting a bit suspicious, they can ask to see around to make sure you're not trying to sneak notes?

But no, once I started, they didn't say a word to me and I only pulled zoom up off minimise to say I needed to use the bathroom.
Honestly forgot she was even there otherwise.

Iso_123 · 14-10-2020 11:51AM

I was wondering if anyone doing company/who passed company previously would be able to tell me which topics they covered for the exam? so far I have;
Incorporation and SLP
Directors and directors duties (incl frauduent/reckless trading)
Restriction
Shares/share transfer
Minority shareholder oppression/Foss and Harbottle
Corporate borrowing
winding up

(I am planning on adding authority to this) will this be enough for the exam? should I add in anything else?

kayleee123 · 14-10-2020 12:49PM

Hi Guys, might be a stupid question but I was wondering if future employers could see attempts made / failed for FE1 exams? I just added constitutional to my exams for this sitting - I'm not overly sure of my chances but said i'll give it a go anyway and see how I get on with a month solid work on it. My other subjects should be fine (fingers crossed) but i'll drop constitutional again if it will show up that I failed as i'm nowhere near as prepared for it as the others but would good to get it out of the way at the same time so no harm giving it a go? Thanks

Aoibhin511 · 14-10-2020 01:24PM

kayleee123 wrote: »

Hi Guys, might be a stupid question but I was wondering if future employers could see attempts made / failed for FE1 exams? I just added constitutional to my exams for this sitting - I'm not overly sure of my chances but said i'll give it a go anyway and see how I get on with a month solid work on it. My other subjects should be fine (fingers crossed) but i'll drop constitutional again if it will show up that I failed as i'm nowhere near as prepared for it as the others but would good to get it out of the way at the same time so no harm giving it a go? Thanks

If you already have a contract your firm will likely send you an email shortly after results asking whether you passed etc
If you don't, then I'm not sure sorry

legallyginger · 14-10-2020 01:26PM

Has anybody still not received an email regarding the exam being online etc? Small bit worried now and cant get through to LS

Lallers96 · 14-10-2020 01:29PM

Early this week has passed and no update since 5.59pm Friday with the news that the exams were in 4 weeks time with no update on how they'll be conducted. Great.

fLawless123 · 14-10-2020 01:41PM

legallyginger wrote: »

Has anybody still not received an email regarding the exam being online etc? Small bit worried now and cant get through to LS

I haven't received any emails from LS re the exam being online either. Have sent an email on Mon asking about it but no replies....

LS3 · 14-10-2020 01:44PM

Just called and got through to a girl that says they havent finalised details yet but are hoping to have details by end of week early next week at the latest. I asked about invigilators and she said it wont be like that and will be a software we download and basically watches your tabs etc. They still dont sound like they really know whats going on.

Lawlaw12 · 14-10-2020 01:49PM

LS3 wrote: »

Just called and got through to a girl that says they havent finalised details yet but are hoping to have details by end of week early next week at the latest. I asked about invigilators and she said it wont be like that and will be a software we download and basically watches your tabs etc. They still dont sound like they really know whats going on.

Thanks for sharing that!
Did they say that they're definitely going ahead on the same dates? Because 'early next week' is only 2 weeks before the exams...surely they'll have to give us enough notice to put arrangements in place

awsah · 14-10-2020 01:52PM

LS3 wrote: »

Just called and got through to a girl that says they havent finalised details yet but are hoping to have details by end of week early next week at the latest. I asked about invigilators and she said it wont be like that and will be a software we download and basically watches your tabs etc. They still dont sound like they really know whats going on.

This makes me sad and mad! :mad::(

LS3 · 14-10-2020 01:57PM

Lawlaw12 wrote: »

Thanks for sharing that!
Did they say that they're definitely going ahead on the same dates? Because 'early next week' is only 2 weeks before the exams...surely they'll have to give us enough notice to put arrangements in place

Still sounds like theyre aiming for the same dates. They send out the exam numbers last minute anyway so no difference there

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