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

Glinda!

Haha oh god well it certainly did confuse the hell out of me! In fact it has made me question my chosen career path! Hopefully in real life things wouldnt be so complicated! Was there many cases for recalls? I didnt even mention that! There was nothing about it in my notes! Im hoping it was just a side point rather than supposed to b the main part of the answer![/QUOTE]

I honestly didnt write any of what I said in the exam either just from lookin at it afterwards! Real life things are much more complicated. . but not so academic!!

chops018

Milkypops wrote: »

isnt he saying thats what he thought they might drop and not SLP?

hows it feel to finished chops??

Oh yeah, I didn't read it properly!

Hmm, it's good and bad - good to be finished, and a good exam today, but bad regards today as I think I totally mucked that up.

What have you left?

Milkypops

chops018 wrote: »

Oh yeah, I didn't read it properly!

Hmm, it's good and bad - good to be finished, and a good exam today, but bad regards today as I think I totally mucked that up.

What have you left?

I have equity left!! U mucked today up is it??

chops018

Milkypops wrote: »

I have equity left!! U mucked today up is it??

Oh sorry meant yesterday! Today was grand..

Best of luck with Equity!

sally01

For witnesses to a will, is there a requirement that they should be over 18? It doesn't say this in the Succession Act (as far as I can see) yet in the April 2012 examiner's report she refers to the fact that they should be. Can anyone shed some light on this? Am I missing something?

Cheeks22

Hi sorry if someone has already asked this but does anyone have a brief run down of important topics/guesses of whats coming up for Contract Law on Fri? My exam grid is old!

Would be MUCH appreciated, thanks

CRM1

sally01 wrote: »

For witnesses to a will, is there a requirement that they should be over 18? It doesn't say this in the Succession Act (as far as I can see) yet in the April 2012 examiner's report she refers to the fact that they should be. Can anyone shed some light on this? Am I missing something?

Sorry I read that wrong the first time.... always a good omen the night before an exam.... Yeah based on s 77 (a) dealing with capacity I would say that it is implied from such as well as if a witness was under 18 thus classified as a minor would pose problems as to attestation or the capacity to attest, as in contract -understanding of such.

sally01

CRM1 wrote: »

Sorry I read that wrong the first time.... always a good omen the night before an exam.... Yeah based on s 77 (a) dealing with capacity I would say that it is implied from such as well as if a witness was under 18 thus classified as a minor would pose problems as to attestation or the capacity to attest, as in contract -understanding of such.

Ye it does make sense I suppose. Definitely seems as though that was popped into the exam on the sly to catch people out given it's not expressly stated in the Act.

penny1500

Hi guys, the very best of luck in the exams!! Hope they go well!! Is anyone selling a recent Independent Colleges or City Colleges Tort manual and Equity manual? Thanks a mill!

katie21

Does anyone know where it would be possible to obtain past papers for the FE1 exams.
I am asking on behalf of a friend who is moving over from America in November and will be sitting them next year hopefully.
She is just looking for an idea of the standard as she is fully qualified in America.

Hokey poke

Sweet Jesus I wasn't expecting that property paper. Was anyone else totally thrown by the lack of adverse, co ownership or finding on land?

Caoileann

Is it okay to hand in legislation days in advance? I want to submit constitutional on monday but the exam isnt until thurs?

Morris_fe1s

Hokey poke wrote: »

Sweet Jesus I wasn't expecting that property paper. Was anyone else totally thrown by the lack of adverse, co ownership or finding on land?

What came up?

Tea-a-Maria

Caoileann wrote: »

Is it okay to hand in legislation days in advance? I want to submit constitutional on monday but the exam isnt until thurs?

It's fine.Someone in front of me handed in a Constitution along with Company legislation on Tuesday and there was no issue.

Lily Belle

Hokey poke wrote: »

Sweet Jesus I wasn't expecting that property paper. Was anyone else totally thrown by the lack of adverse, co ownership or finding on land?

Thrown is an understatement. Could only answer 4. Feel really hard done by, I thought I was more than covered in what I had studied. First one, confidence destroyed. The only thing is I felt I did myself justice on the four I could answer so that's something. I suppose

Lily Belle

Morris_fe1s wrote: »

What came up?

Easements, 2 succession, family property as a problem, contractual licences, mortgages, registration and covenants. Nightmare (for me at least)

CRM1

Hokey poke wrote: »

Sweet Jesus I wasn't expecting that property paper. Was anyone else totally thrown by the lack of adverse, co ownership or finding on land?

Between the lack of the above and the awkward tort paper ... I've officially thrown out my exam grids... the only thing that saved me was the question on family property... so had 4 okish and a dodgy 5th on Mortgages... Can't wait to spot the curve ball in contract tomorrow.

sophya

Answered 3 ok, felt a bit off on extrinsic evidence because the re Collins test just dropped out of my head and attempted the question about easements with no case names. But managed 5 with at least 3 pages each so hopefully it's ok

Albert_Roi

That was a tough paper. I barely got the five questions and I hardly knew contractual licences so I found that very tough to answer. Was pretty nervous reading the questions after the first two on relatively obscure topics, I hate that feeling when you get to the final two questions and you know you have to be able to answer both of them to get the 5, that happened to me today but luckily I managed to get the 5 (with an awful contractual licences answer).

So tired now after doing three in a row. They were three tough papers too. For all three, my favoured topics did not come up but luckily I still managed to answer 5 in each of them. Hard to know if I've passed them though, touch and go I'd say.

I've a bit of a break now until Tuesday for EU.

Inmyownworld

Yeah no A.P. or co-owners, was banking on them coming up. Had 4 questions and made up something on contractual licences that in no way related to it.

Well that was fun...

sophya

Made the mistake of looking at easements in the manual and now realised that I was waffling on and saying complete crap and contradicting the actual law and referred to the wrong legislation. Had statute of limitations instead of 2009 act cause adverse possession was in my head. Argh hope my other 4 questions were enough and I get attempt marks for that one.

penny1500

katie21 wrote: »

Does anyone know where it would be possible to obtain past papers for the FE1 exams.
I am asking on behalf of a friend who is moving over from America in November and will be sitting them next year hopefully.
She is just looking for an idea of the standard as she is fully qualified in America.

Hey there, you can order all the past papers and examiners reports from the Law Society of Ireland website...

michelle2000

Hi all

For the contract eu leg question - what are the main points of benefits of harmonisation? Can't seem to think of more than 2 points . Would apprreciate any help!

Stormington

Lily Belle wrote: »

Easements, 2 succession, family property as a problem, contractual licences, mortgages, registration and covenants. Nightmare (for me at least)

Nightmare sums it up nicely: no finders, no adverse and not sure if intestacy or not in one succession question. No rest though: off to do contract. Hope it isn't as messy.

Stormington

katie21 wrote: »

Does anyone know where it would be possible to obtain past papers for the FE1 exams.
I am asking on behalf of a friend who is moving over from America in November and will be sitting them next year hopefully.
She is just looking for an idea of the standard as she is fully qualified in America.

If she's fully qualified I.e. has passed the bar she may only have to do the qltt and say a few words as gaeilge. If she's got a degree only then yeah the fe1 needs to be done.

Morris_fe1s

Stormington wrote: »

Nightmare sums it up nicely: no finders, no adverse and not sure if intestacy or not in one succession question. No rest though: off to do contract. Hope it isn't as messy.

What was asked for succession?

Milkypops

my god....sounds like ye had a nasty paper for property alright...no way would i have passed this time round!

on another note does anyone have any recent equity sample answers they could send me as in 2012/2013 ones....its my last one and im so sick of reading notes....

i have the revision guid(prediction from independent colleges) and grids and also sample answers for constiutional and grid too!!

Stormington

Morris_fe1s wrote: »

What was asked for succession?

Extrinsic evidence: yay.
Not sure if invalid will/intestate lesbians: boo.

LostOutForeign

Stormington wrote: »

Extrinsic evidence: yay.
Not sure if invalid will/intestate lesbians: boo.

Why wouldn't it have been valid? I said it was definitely valid...

Awful paper though, the shock of reading it was awful - when it's usually such a predictable paper. Answered the 5 questions but really struggled with easements and contractual licences

sally01

LostOutForeign wrote: »

Why wouldn't it have been valid? I said it was definitely valid...

Awful paper though, the shock of reading it was awful - when it's usually such a predictable paper. Answered the 5 questions but really struggled with easements and contractual licences

it didn't say whether Jenny signed it herself. I said it was valid if she had and not if she hadn't