Tag: A Exam


  • EQE: 9 Mar 2023 – A Exam – no copy (sorry) and my comments

    Updated 14 Mar 2023 Thursday was the e-EQE A Exam (0930-1330 CET – 240 mins). Sorry, I do not have a copy available (I was not a benchmarker), but please post any comments you have. The EPO normally makes official copies of the exams available in the compendium in the week after the EQE.  I…

  • Updated 15 Mar 22: added blurry preview window problem.Updated 14 Mar 22: remedy for frozen chat window added Updated 10 Mar 22 to add problem with missing words in answer. Today was the e-EQE A Exam (0930-1330 CET – 240 mins). If you want to try yourself, see here for files in English: A-printable-EN (2022),…

  • Final preparations Updated 11 Mar 22: added entry photo requirements.Updated 10 Mar 22: clarify printing must be done before starting FLOWlock Browser. This is a detailed exam schedule for A 2022, indicating unscheduled break times.  External Resources at www.epo.org are available online during the exam. For all other materials, you will need to have them on paper. If…

  • Yesterday was the e-EQE A Exam. If you want to try yourself, see here for complete copies with first the printable parts and the online only parts. The online parts have been extracted from answers, so they may not be perfect. The font is also quite small (would normally be 7 pages). A 2021 – complete…

  • This was a great initiative – Russell IP hosted almost 10 hours of free tutoring last week, primarily for candidates affected by the cancellation of  EQE 2020. From across Europe and further afield, almost 400 candidates attended the five webinars. Recordings of the webinars, copies of the presentations, and several templates are now available on…

  • I have been asked by a couple of people to go through the list again, so see below for the update of this post from Dec 2018. It has not changed much (removed A EM 2011), but I have added some general guidance, as well as a list of not-recommended papers. With so few combined…

  • ** See amended advice here: EQE 2021 – which legal texts to use? **  The syllabus is defined in Regulation on EQE (REE) A.13 and IPREE R.2 and R.22 (latest: OJEPO 2019,SE2). R.22 specifies that legal texts valid on 31 Oct in the year before the exam are relevant. This cut-off was intended to simplify EQE…

  • EQELIBRIUM camps – learning by doing EQE papers

    A vital part of any exam preparation is to practice exams. At the EQE, you will need to make a thousand micro-decisions on each paper about where to start, what you need to do, in which order to do it, what to write, what not to write, things not to be forgotten and when to…

  • I sat the paper under exam conditions in Munich as a bench marker to give the examination committees some materials for their marking discussion. If you want to try the paper yourself, here are the compendium copies in English, French & German. The invention, a cell culture container (such as a multi-well plate) is something…

  • I am happy to have been picked again to “guinea-pig” the EQE papers on behalf of the epi. I will be doing all the papers again – A, B, C and D. Although we are called “bench markers”, we do not calibrate the exam or set a base level. The Examination Committees and markers rely…