FE-1: what the last five papers actually asked
We read every question on every FE-1 paper from March 2024 to March 2026 — all eight subjects, 312 questions — and compared them with each other. This is what came back. It is free, and there is nothing to sign up for to read it.
Where the repeats are
Repeats are not spread evenly. If you are sitting Property or EU, past papers are worth more of your revision time than they are in Tort.
| Subject | Questions set more than once | What that means for revision |
|---|---|---|
| Property | 8 | Highest repeat rate in the exam. Work the past papers. |
| EU | 5 | Heavy repetition, plus a fixed case-note slot at Q7 every sitting. |
| Company | 3 | The big essay titles come round again, word for word. |
| Constitutional | 1 | One essay repeated; the Q4 case-note slot is near-permanent. |
| Equity | 2 | Two repeats, one of them a long problem question reused almost verbatim. |
| Contract | 1 | Rare. One damages problem reused two years apart. |
| Criminal | 1 | Rare. Cover the syllabus rather than the past papers. |
| Tort | 0 | No repeats at all in five sittings. Breadth beats past papers here. |
Three that stand out
Every repeat below was checked by reading both questions side by side, not just by a similarity score. The questions themselves are described in our own words, not reproduced.
An essay on the protection of minority shareholders, asking candidates to trace it through both statute and the common law and to support the answer throughout with case and statutory authority. Our description, not the examiner’s wording.
Appeared as Mar 2024 Q5 · Oct 2024 Q8 · Oct 2025 Q5.
A question on the three certainties, requiring certainty of objects to be treated alongside one of the other two, in the context of what must exist for a valid express trust. Our description, not the examiner’s wording.
Appeared as Mar 2025 Q2 · Oct 2025 Q4.
A two-part question: a critical analysis of the rules governing the construction of wills under Irish succession law, together with a shorter treatment of how an intestate estate is distributed. Our description, not the examiner’s wording.
Appeared as Mar 2024 Q8 · Oct 2025 Q1.
The EU case-note slot
EU Question 7 has been a case-note question at every one of the last five sittings. It is not the same question each time — the list of judgments rotates — but the pool it rotates through is small.
How this was done, and what it is not
This is a record, not a prediction. Five sittings is a short run, examiners are under no obligation to repeat themselves, and a question set four times running can still disappear. Use it to decide what to revise first, not what to skip.
Every repeat we found
Twenty-one questions, listed by subject. Where a question has been set twice, working it once covers two papers.
| Subject | Times set | Which papers |
|---|---|---|
| Company | 3× | Mar 2024 Q5 · Oct 2024 Q8 · Oct 2025 Q5 |
| Company | 2× | Oct 2024 Q1 · Mar 2026 Q8 |
| Company | 2× | Mar 2024 Q1 · Oct 2025 Q3 |
| Constitutional | 2× | Oct 2024 Q6 · Mar 2025 Q6 |
| Contract | 2× | Mar 2024 Q6 · Mar 2026 Q4 |
| Criminal | 2× | Mar 2024 Q3 · Oct 2025 Q7 |
| EU | 2× | Mar 2024 Q2 · Mar 2025 Q2 |
| EU | 2× | Mar 2024 Q6 · Mar 2025 Q6 |
| EU | 2× | Oct 2024 Q1 · Mar 2026 Q2 |
| EU | 2× | Mar 2025 Q8 · Mar 2026 Q8 |
| EU | 2× | Mar 2024 Q8 · Oct 2025 Q8 |
| Equity | 2× | Mar 2025 Q2 · Oct 2025 Q4 |
| Equity | 2× | Mar 2025 Q3 · Mar 2026 Q2 |
| Property | 2× | Mar 2024 Q8 · Oct 2025 Q1 |
| Property | 2× | Mar 2024 Q6 · Oct 2025 Q5 |
| Property | 2× | Mar 2025 Q7 · Oct 2025 Q7 |
| Property | 2× | Mar 2025 Q6 · Oct 2025 Q2 |
| Property | 2× | Mar 2024 Q3 · Mar 2026 Q2 |
| Property | 2× | Mar 2024 Q7 · Mar 2026 Q6 |
| Property | 2× | Mar 2025 Q8 · Oct 2025 Q4 |
| Property | 2× | Mar 2025 Q4 · Mar 2026 Q3 |
Full model answers to eleven of these repeats
The analysis above is free and always will be. If you want the answers — eleven of the repeat questions worked through in full, with every authority checked against primary sources — they are here.
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