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

RandolphEsq

Equity tomorrow. What are people predicting/hoping for with injunctions. I would like some sort of essay on Campus Oil principles and deviation from them or an essay on Anton Piller, Marevas.

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FeDespair

+1 on the casenotes, they were going to be my last resort.........today they were the first thing I answered. I always read papers back to front so I was chuffed when I saw loads of cases I knew...how wrong I was with the rest of the paper!

Troels Hartmann

Someone said above that he can't fail everyone..... In theory that is correct but wasn't there one year recently where the pass rate plunged to 25%? Pretty sure it was EU but may have been constitutional. Just remember it from one of the reports

That would seem to disprove that theory unfortunately

LadyLawGa

jenspondolik wrote: »

Who was it who said a little about a lot? More like a lot about a very very niche little

+1

How can they expect us to write an essay on those very very niche topics

jenspondolik

sunshine and showers wrote: »

There goes the old myth that the examiner is not out to get you and trick you into failing. :rolleyes:

Who was it who said a little about a lot? More like a lot about a very very niche little

sunshine and showers

Troels Hartmann wrote: »

Id love to ask the examiner why he felt it necessary to to include such a vast array of irrelevant facts in such a scattergun way

There goes the old myth that the examiner is not out to get you and trick you into failing. :rolleyes:

XxMCRxBabyxX

So sorry to hear that it wasn't a great paper guys! I guess all you can do now it's look at the fact that's it's over now :-)

Bring on the freedom!

FeDespair

Seriously?! Was he actually having a laugh? That was absolutely ridiculous.

I know these are serious exams and all that crap but come on, how do they expect people to pass them when they give such ridiculous papers?

Im gonna get mine rechecked just so I know he read all the absolute tripe I wrote.
Totally deflated!

jenspondolik

Lily Belle wrote: »

Seriously, judging on the consensus here, 3 1/2 questions might have got you over the line! He can't fail everyone

I could see loads bopping out looking happy enough def no hope if u saw the stardard of my answer well tort and const awful too so at least I've the work done!! Exhausted and drained.

Have wine and magazine I'll be grand

Lily Belle

jenspondolik wrote: »

Bloody shocking I did three and a half Q's the worst yet. I covered 2004 citizenship well but I didn't know what those cases were about so I left it. I did a page on pringle with no facts or detail and half a freedoms q just so so depressing

Seriously, judging on the consensus here, 3 1/2 questions might have got you over the line! He can't fail everyone

jenspondolik

That's what I thought every yr says pass high. I'm in a restaurant having steak and wine on my own until I get my bus at three. On my own drinkin wine that's how bad it was. I was flicking through and I was like I know what you're asking here here and here but it's no where in manuals etc and I know u must luck beyond manuals but if I'd read Craig and de whatever I'd still be at a loss. Well feck it as I said they can fire me if they want. Never failed and exam til company but I would've been so upset if I'd worked hard and still not be able to do it. I feel that's what happened to loads even people doing prep courses and essays and lectures and all. Its not fair how can u know what's on the syllabus when is monetary policy etc ever really a big area. My manual actually says its behind the scope of the fe1s!! Rant over

Troels Hartmann

sunshine and showers wrote: »

I actually have no words. Except thank god I wasn't the only one who had no bloody idea what that citizenship problem was going on about. Confusing as f*ck.

Id love to ask the examiner why he felt it necessary to to include such a vast array of irrelevant facts in such a scattergun way

Lily Belle

jenspondolik wrote: »

Yea like did a masters on questions like what came up but these are entry exams we're not prepping for academic articles/theses but practical application of facts today was to catch us out

What's going on like?! Is it maybe because the pass rate has been so high previous years? First exam iv ever not been able to hope for the 'maybe he'll mark it easy' approach because I couldn't attempt enough questions!

Lily Belle

FE1 student wrote: »

Mine too and I left after 45 minutes. Absolutely devastated I have been crying since 10.15.

There was seriously watery eyed territory on the luas on my way home. Between the tears, thrown together appearance and dazed expression, I'd say everyone just wrote me off as strung out!

Lily Belle

You guys I'm so sorry it went bad for most people too but I'm genuinely relieved im not the only who thought that was a horror. I genuinely didn't even recognise the paper, it resembled previous papers so little. Could only do 2 questions. I never in my life thought I wouldn't be able to attempt three (didn't even know that citizenship one was citizenship!). Going to put it behind me but devastated about another year away from blackhall and really concerned about the re-sit (a third of the topics on the paper weren't in my manual?!).

So... Anyone wanna chuck it all in, come to LA with me and try make it as a movie star? ðŸ˜Ž

Ashashi

Absolutely horrendous. Vote no to Lisbon.

southcounty

Wat was that bakery licence thing about? So confusing!

jenspondolik

dashdoll wrote: »

Really disappointing to heat that EU was such a crap paper for people today.

I honestly don't understand the need for these exams to be so difficult and time consuming especially for people who have degrees and masters in law etc...seems somewhat futile.

Anyway, Im so glad to be finished since yesterday. My weekend is going to consist of wine, house of cards and more wine! :-)

Yea like did a masters on questions like what came up but these are entry exams we're not prepping for academic articles/theses but practical application of facts today was to catch us out

Arcturus2112

sunshine and showers wrote: »

I actually have no words. Except thank god I wasn't the only one who had no bloody idea what that citizenship problem was going on about. Confusing as f*ck.

Yeah, the never-ending story. Oh how I rambled on that one..

lawbear

dashdoll wrote: »

Really disappointing to heat that EU was such a crap paper for people today.

I honestly don't understand the need for these exams to be so difficult and time consuming especially for people who have degrees and masters in law etc...seems somewhat futile.

Anyway, Im so glad to be finished since yesterday. My weekend is going to consist of wine, house of cards and more wine! :-)

a friend of mine is putting the house of cards series on my hard drive….im planning on staying in pyjamas all day tomorrow…watching episode after episode...

dashdoll

Really disappointing to heat that EU was such a crap paper for people today.

I honestly don't understand the need for these exams to be so difficult and time consuming especially for people who have degrees and masters in law etc...seems somewhat futile.

Anyway, Im so glad to be finished since yesterday. My weekend is going to consist of wine, house of cards and more wine! :-)

sunshine and showers

I actually have no words. Except thank god I wasn't the only one who had no bloody idea what that citizenship problem was going on about. Confusing as f*ck.

lawbear

Are these exams marked with the bell curve marking system does anyone know? I always wonder too if when marking these exams they have in mind how many people in numbers they need to go through to blackhall and things….as in if so many people failed…they would have to mark accordingly presumably as they need a certain amount to go through no??? clutching at straws

Arcturus2112

A scandalously bad paper... Absolutely shocking.

Troels Hartmann

jenspondolik wrote: »

I was just going to say that. All the new cases that wouldn't be in manuals texts etc. I mean if you think about the timescale from last sitting to this it didn't leave much time for researching brand new 2014 cases. The last set of results was late November like so thats a joke

I wonder how often it happens in practice that a lad in a tracksuit and hoodie walks in off the street into a solicitors practice and says "Story bud! I need a solicitor to tell me about the scope and limits of the exclusive Union competence with regard to monetary policy, as the beaks said in the Pringle case. Know what I'm sayin, yehhhh?"

southcounty

FE1 student wrote: »

Mine too and I left after 45 minutes. Absolutely devastated I have been crying since 10.15.

Same boat absolutely devastated!!

jenspondolik

Troels Hartmann wrote: »

Is it just me or did that EU paper seem like it had been co-written by Eoin Carolan, the Constitutional examiner?

ie. Several essays on very minor, discreet horse-sh*t issues which never arise in practice ..... just like recent Constitutional papers

I was just going to say that. All the new cases that wouldn't be in manuals texts etc. I mean if you think about the timescale from last sitting to this it didn't leave much time for researching brand new 2014 cases. The last set of results was late November like so thats a joke

Troels Hartmann

I know it sounds like a cliché ...... but these blasted things aren't worth getting upset over.

Unless your firms are total a-holes (and generally they are not) ther will be quite understanding that you missed one or more. These exams are hard as hell so there's no shame in not getting them this time around. Remember - they're well used to prospective trainees failing! So it comes as nothing new to them

It's easier said than done but this stuff isn't worth crying over. Don't give em the satisfaction

FE1 student

Pepp1989 wrote: »

That was the last exam I had to pass to get into blackhall. Devastated isn't the word. Awful paper.

Mine too and I left after 45 minutes. Absolutely devastated I have been crying since 10.15.

Troels Hartmann

Is it just me or did that EU paper seem like it had been co-written by Eoin Carolan, the Constitutional examiner?

ie. Several essays on very minor, discreet horse-sh*t issues which never arise in practice ..... just like recent Constitutional papers

jenspondolik

Bloody shocking I did three and a half Q's the worst yet. I covered 2004 citizenship well but I didn't know what those cases were about so I left it. I did a page on pringle with no facts or detail and half a freedoms q just so so depressing