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

Tom Young

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moeby

lawDani wrote: »

I JUST WENT ON TO THEIR SITE;

I DONT KNOW WHY ITS NOT COMING AS A LINK HERE BUT THATS COPIED FROM MY SEARCH BAR - sorry for shouting..

Yep, thats the link i was trying to post. That is the crowd I called. I called the Irish number on that page and they didnt seem to know what I was talking about at all. I've sent an email anyways so hopefully it gets sorted by Thursday morn!

LawStudent96

Lawlaw12 wrote: »

I'm worried about this too, there's nothing we can do if it happens to cut-out mid-exam

I'm in the same boat, probably plenty of people around the country with similar internet issues. If ("if" being the operative word) you get a response to your email about it, please post

moeby

Wonderstruck wrote: »

If you're having trouble writing a link you can write like

Wonderstruck[at]domainname[dot].ie or if that doesnt work pm me and i can drop it in here, I have a ten year old account and you only have one post so I presume I am old enough I can post links

Yeah it said I couldnt post the link as my account was new. The user above me just posted the link so no need, but thank you. I called the Irish number on that page and the woman seemed to have never heard of BetterExaminations though. I explained the situation (i.e I received an email from BetterExaminations, reset the password and attempted at signing in and the link expired) and she told me I must have the wrong number. Yikes.

If anyone gets through to them and finds a solution, please let me know. Thanks in advance.

Lallers96

Hazel774 wrote: »

Where are you getting instant fail from?

What everyone seems to be saying about this eye-monitoring tech

Jeremiah25

lawDani wrote: »

haha! SAME! and i got on to the web team in LS and they cant fix it as 'it didn't come from them' im going to loose my mind.
i emailed BetterExaminations.... its a JOKE

That's ridiculous. Did they offer any avenues of help at all?

Wonderstruck

moeby wrote: »

Which email did you use to contact BetterExaminations? I tried calling them and the woman on the other line told me they are called "TerminalFour". I mentioned I was sitting online exams with BetterExaminations and I was having trouble logging in and I was told I must have called the wrong number as she hadn't heard of them.

I got the details off of BetterExaminations . com

Unfortunately, the forum wont allow me to post the link here.

Any contact details for this crowd would be much appreciated! Thanks

If you're having trouble writing a link you can write like

Wonderstruck[at]domainname[dot].ie or if that doesnt work pm me and i can drop it in here, I have a ten year old account and you only have one post so I presume I am old enough I can post links

lawDani

I JUST WENT ON TO THEIR SITE;

https://www.betterexaminations.com/about-us/contact-us/

I DONT KNOW WHY ITS NOT COMING AS A LINK HERE BUT THATS COPIED FROM MY SEARCH BAR - sorry for shouting..

13545327

Does anybody have any idea about the time limit for these exams?
The PPC exams were also online and allowed six hours to complete the exams. They hardly expect us to be as fast typing as you would be through writing. Maybe some but certainly not all and that would be seriously unfair! Although nothing surprises me with this shower.

moeby

lawDani wrote: »

haha! SAME! and i got on to the web team in LS and they cant fix it as 'it didn't come from them' im going to loose my mind.
i emailed BetterExaminations.... its a JOKE

Which email did you use to contact BetterExaminations? I tried calling them and the woman on the other line told me they are called "TerminalFour". I mentioned I was sitting online exams with BetterExaminations and I was having trouble logging in and I was told I must have called the wrong number as she hadn't heard of them.

I got the details off of BetterExaminations . com

Unfortunately, the forum wont allow me to post the link here.

Any contact details for this crowd would be much appreciated! Thanks

Wonderstruck

rightytighty wrote: »

Did anyone hear back about judicial assistant? Getting ridiculous now

Radio silence! I know they recruit quite a lot of them but weird they didn't at least give people panel numbers or something!

I've already started my in office training!

At least it will look less bad if they offer me it and I turn it down now, I was told I could apprentice in-house a few hours after the JA interview but courts don't need to know that

lawDani

Jeremiah25 wrote: »

Has anyone else's sign up link expired?

Just tried to set up my password for the first time and got that. Problems already

haha! SAME! and i got on to the web team in LS and they cant fix it as 'it didn't come from them' im going to loose my mind.
i emailed BetterExaminations.... its a JOKE

bozzer198

What are people studying for tort ? Usually go through papers but haven't time atm ,thanks in advance

rickmatt

Aoibhin511 wrote: »

Pick 2 of the following:
i. Shatter v. Guerin [2019] IESC 9.
ii. McCrystal v. Minister for Children [2012] IESC 53.
iii. M v. Minister for Justice and Equality [2018] IESC 14.
iv. DPP v. JC [2015] IESC 31.

Its even more random than for EU from what I can see, only 2 cases have ever come up more than once. But unlike EU they tend to be more recent cases, so if you're up to date you could get lucky

Thanks for that Aoibhin511, I might just leave it

Aoibhin511

rickmatt wrote: »

Hi anyone have the March 2020 Constitutional Exam Paper?

Or even just the Casenote Q?

Is the casenote question for Constitutional similar to the EU one? i.e. pure random and not worth studying? Or is it much more doable?

Pick 2 of the following:
i. Shatter v. Guerin [2019] IESC 9.
ii. McCrystal v. Minister for Children [2012] IESC 53.
iii. M v. Minister for Justice and Equality [2018] IESC 14.
iv. DPP v. JC [2015] IESC 31.

Its even more random than for EU from what I can see, only 2 cases have ever come up more than once. But unlike EU they tend to be more recent cases, so if you're up to date you could get lucky

rickmatt

Hi anyone have the March 2020 Constitutional Exam Paper?

Or even just the Casenote Q?

Is the casenote question for Constitutional similar to the EU one? i.e. pure random and not worth studying? Or is it much more doable?

Jeremiah25

Lallers96 wrote: »

I was fine with a typed exam but it's a dealbreaker with the potential instant fail if I move my eyes away from the screen. I always look up and around me when I'm thinking and also ill have to look at my legislation.

Every decision they make they continue to lower my opinion of the law society.

They can't or won't fail anyone for looking away from your screen during the exam. Imagine the uproar. I'm sure if any suspicion arises you will be asked to show your room etc.

rightytighty

Did anyone hear back about judicial assistant? Getting ridiculous now

fe12020oct

Does anyone have any sample answers for company that they might be willing to share? Would really appreciate !

Hazel774

awsah wrote: »

I spoke to LS about this as there is a lot of construction going on in my area and the electricity can be intermittent, all she said was that there had been a lot of calls about people saying they were worried about sharing wifi with housemates/ construction in area etc. She said this was all new to them as well and they were figuring things out.

I understand that this is all new to them, everyone know that, but why do they have to figure things out two weeks before we are due to sit the exam

Wow, do they actually think that that's an appropriate answer two weeks before the exam?

If they weren't going to have everything sorted by now they should have just postponed it a week or two, this is so annoying

Thanks for letting me know though

awsah

Hazel774 wrote: »

Has anyone got an answer about what will happen if our wifi goes during the exam?

I have strong wifi in my house, but it's unfortunately been cutting out a lot over the last few weeks so I don't know what I'm going to do if it goes during the exam. Obviously we have no control over whether or not there will be an issue with our wifi during that 3 hour period, so I feel that we should be advised in advance on what to do if that happens.
We can't be expected to stop mid-answer and start trying to deal with tech issues, we will totally lose our train of thought.
I've emailed about it, but (unsurprisingly) they haven't responded

I spoke to LS about this as there is a lot of construction going on in my area and the electricity can be intermittent, all she said was that there had been a lot of calls about people saying they were worried about sharing wifi with housemates/ construction in area etc. She said this was all new to them as well and they were figuring things out.

I understand that this is all new to them, everyone know that, but why do they have to figure things out two weeks before we are due to sit the exam

arubamuuu

Jeremiah25 wrote: »

Has anyone else's sign up link expired?

Just tried to set up my password for the first time and got that. Problems already

Mines has expired too, a great start for sure haha

EDIT: sent an enquiry on the betterexaminations website and they sent me a new link that worked. Didn't take too long to wait for new link

Lawlaw12

Hazel774 wrote: »

Has anyone got an answer about what will happen if our wifi goes during the exam?

I have strong wifi in my house, but it's unfortunately been cutting out a lot over the last few weeks so I don't know what I'm going to do if it goes during the exam. Obviously we have no control over whether or not there will be an issue with our wifi during that 3 hour period, so I feel that we should be advised in advance on what to do if that happens.
We can't be expected to stop mid-answer and start trying to deal with tech issues, we will totally lose our train of thought.
I've emailed about it, but (unsurprisingly) they haven't responded

I'm worried about this too, there's nothing we can do if it happens to cut-out mid-exam

Hazel774

Lallers96 wrote: »

I was fine with a typed exam but it's a dealbreaker with the potential instant fail if I move my eyes away from the screen. I always look up and around me when I'm thinking and also ill have to look at my legislation.

Every decision they make they continue to lower my opinion of the law society.

Where are you getting instant fail from?

Hazel774

Has anyone got an answer about what will happen if our wifi goes during the exam?

I have strong wifi in my house, but it's unfortunately been cutting out a lot over the last few weeks so I don't know what I'm going to do if it goes during the exam. Obviously we have no control over whether or not there will be an issue with our wifi during that 3 hour period, so I feel that we should be advised in advance on what to do if that happens.
We can't be expected to stop mid-answer and start trying to deal with tech issues, we will totally lose our train of thought.
I've emailed about it, but (unsurprisingly) they haven't responded

Lallers96

I was fine with a typed exam but it's a dealbreaker with the potential instant fail if I move my eyes away from the screen. I always look up and around me when I'm thinking and also ill have to look at my legislation.

Every decision they make they continue to lower my opinion of the law society.

Jeremiah25

Has anyone else's sign up link expired?

Just tried to set up my password for the first time and got that. Problems already

Law20213

illy.m wrote: »

Anyone else considering not sitting this typed exam? I haven't done much typing for the past 6 months, and I need a pen and paper to plan my answer. This is just how my brain works. I feel that sitting the exam this time under the current rules will affect my grade. Did someone on here say that the LS will try to arrange some other sitting or did I dream about that?

I agree with the above are the society allowing people to do online written exams like august or are they holding a sitting in December?

Leaving cert is going ahead in person on the 16th nov.....can’t see why we can’t do the same.

We need have options can’t just be a typed exams for all as it doesn’t suit majority of people

illy.m

Anyone else considering not sitting this typed exam? I haven't done much typing for the past 6 months, and I need a pen and paper to plan my answer. This is just how my brain works. I feel that sitting the exam this time under the current rules will affect my grade. Did someone on here say that the LS will try to arrange some other sitting or did I dream about that?

FE1new

lsheehaneire wrote: »

Hi guys , just wondering if anyone is legal support staff and if your working through level 5 restrictions?

Yes I'm a legal sec working full time. I've been working from home since March.

lawDani

lsheehaneire wrote: »

Hi guys , just wondering if anyone is legal support staff and if your working through level 5 restrictions?

hi there, yes i am. working full time as a legal Sec. and sitting EU and Contact. i haven't been told to work remotely, nor can I.