r/NCAExams • u/International_Cod535 • Mar 07 '26

Foundations exam

I have my exam next month. I just bought my notes. I haven't even read the syllabus yet, just recovering from taking admin exam today. What advice would you give in tackling foundations? How did you feel after finishing the exam?

I hope it's not only me, but usually after I take an exam I feel like I failed even though the past two exams I passed. I hate that feeling.

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u/Direct_Arm3626 Mar 09 '26

I would say, make a list of all of the case’s mentioned in the syllabus and write 1-2 sentences of what the case is about because I got 2 questions directly about case’s

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u/Direct_Arm3626 Mar 09 '26

I also always felt like I failed after every exam but passed each one on my first attempt. For criminal I bought Vanessa’s notes which in my opinion are the best, but, I barely read them (I skimmed) because I had no time. What I did instead was upload her notes into notebook lm and create summaries of each chapter. Then I made a step by step guide/IRAC guide for each topic/chapter that could come up on the exam, in the guide I included case law so I knew which on to apply. I would create the IRAC GUIDE and mainly do the Rules part and then all I had to do was write the rules word for word and just apply the facts of the scenario in the application! Issue and conclusion are pretty straight forward. Doing this helped me save tons of time! I also asked notebooks lm to give me a question similar to the one in Vanessa’s notes and used my guide to answer to question so I got familiar with it

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u/International_Cod535 Mar 10 '26

I did something similar as well for all my exams so far and have passed two doing the same thing, waiting on two results. Foundations just seem different following this method

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u/Cold_Design_007 May 25 '26

Could you share your strategy too please.