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    #3032
    kaiser soza
    Closed Accounts Posts: 407 ✭✭kaiser soza


    Might be time to set up a taxi pool with anyone in the same areas.


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    #3033
    ScissorPaperRock
    Registered Users Posts: 2,708 ✭✭✭ScissorPaperRock


    mp3guy wrote: »
    What do you mean this weather?

    Probably means the freezing, and you know, all the ice.


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    #3034
    Xxhaylsxx
    Registered Users Posts: 197 ✭✭Xxhaylsxx


    And maybe just all the snow :D


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    #3035
    LeixlipRed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,081 ✭✭✭LeixlipRed


    If the exams do go ahead people should be forewarned that not being able to make it due to weather related excuses won't cut it. You'll still have to repeat.


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    #3036
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    would probably help those who dont live in Maynooth if they put the exams back a week would also rock with more time to study!! :)


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    #3037
    mickstupp
    Registered Users Posts: 1,764 ✭✭✭mickstupp


    Just out of interest...

    If someone genuinely cannot make it to their exam(s) and so has to repeat in the summer... does anyone know what the marking penalty is? Does it differ per department?

    I'm assuming if the reason was illness rather than transport, there'd be no penalty?


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    #3038
    meganj
    Registered Users Posts: 424 ✭✭meganj


    As far as I know there is no penalty for repeating exams, at least in every year except final year where I think there's some sort of cap on the grade you can receive.

    Also you can only repeat a certain number of exams, and no continuous assessments. I had to resit an exam once because I was sick which was lame but there was no penalty you just have to pay a lot to resit each exam.

    Repeats suck.


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    #3039
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    mickstupp wrote: »
    Just out of interest...

    If someone genuinely cannot make it to their exam(s) and so has to repeat in the summer... does anyone know what the marking penalty is? Does it differ per department?

    I'm assuming if the reason was illness rather than transport, there'd be no penalty?

    doesnt it cost money to repeat a module!?


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    #3040
    LeixlipRed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,081 ✭✭✭LeixlipRed


    What do you mean penalty? There's no penalty for having to repeat.


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    #3041
    alexi_mcg
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14 ✭alexi_mcg


    I phoned the examination office who say that exams are definately going ahead as planned. I asked if there would be a penalty for repeating as I'm in final year, she said that I can repeat up to 15 credits (for me that's 3 exams) and still get an honours degree, but any more than that and I can't. Also if you have to repeat you don't graduate til Oct.


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    #3042
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    alexi_mcg wrote: »
    I phoned the examination office who say that exams are definately going ahead as planned. I asked if there would be a penalty for repeating as I'm in final year, she said that I can repeat up to 15 credits (for me that's 3 exams) and still get an honours degree, but any more than that and I can't. Also if you have to repeat you don't graduate til Oct.

    anything about it costing money? My friend in UCD said it cost him so much to repeat a module but that was several years ago


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    #3043
    leopoldbloom
    Registered Users Posts: 210 ✭✭leopoldbloom


    It's something like €50 per module to a maximum of €200.


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    #3044
    mickstupp
    Registered Users Posts: 1,764 ✭✭✭mickstupp


    LeixlipRed wrote: »
    What do you mean penalty? There's no penalty for having to repeat.
    Oh. I thought if you failed, or didn't have a valid excuse for missing/failing your exam, like some sort of illness... that there'd be some penalty in the marks for your repeats. As in, that there might be an upper limit to the mark allowed. I should say I got this impression from the English department site last year, said something about repeat essay marks being capped at 40 or 50%. I just assumed there'd be a similar set up for written exams. I mean it made sense to me... otherwise there's the potential for people to deliberately fail something they're not doing particularly well in, for the opportunity to have three months study time for a full-marked repeat exam. Doesn't seem fair in certain circumstances... like say classes where there's competition for places, like first year Psychology etc. (are there any others?)

    Anyway I don't know... I just assumed that if you weren't verifiably sick there'd be a penalty in your repeat exam marks.


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    #3045
    LeixlipRed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,081 ✭✭✭LeixlipRed


    If you miss exams in final year due to this weather you will have to repeat but they'll waive the 15 credit restriction. They're tough but fair, so no one panic!


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    #3046
    Devia
    Registered Users Posts: 712 ✭✭✭Devia


    As far as I know your mark is capped at 50% in repeats if you failed the subject or didn't have a legitimate reason for missing it. At least that used to be the case..

    I think they cost around €50 per module. Again, that could have changed since I last checked.

    EDIT:

    Yeah they have raised the price:
    The fee to repeat 1,2 or 3 modules is €60 per module, irrespective of the method of assessment. A fee of €240 is payable when there are 4 or more modules to repeat.


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    #3047
    LeixlipRed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,081 ✭✭✭LeixlipRed


    mickstupp wrote: »
    Oh. I thought if you failed, or didn't have a valid excuse for missing/failing your exam, like some sort of illness... that there'd be some penalty in the marks for your repeats. As in, that there might be an upper limit to the mark allowed. I should say I got this impression from the English department site last year, said something about repeat essay marks being capped at 40 or 50%. I just assumed there'd be a similar set up for written exams. I mean it made sense to me... otherwise there's the potential for people to deliberately fail something they're not doing particularly well in, for the opportunity to have three months study time for a full-marked repeat exam. Doesn't seem fair in certain circumstances... like say classes where there's competition for places, like first year Psychology etc. (are there any others?)

    Anyway I don't know... I just assumed that if you weren't verifiably sick there'd be a penalty in your repeat exam marks.

    There is no "valid" excuse for missing exams (I don't mean this in the sense that you can't miss exams for valid reasons, just in terms of the rules). Only in exceptional circumstances to they even care about the excuse. You sit the exam or you don't and hence you repeat.


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    #3048
    funky penguin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,352 ✭✭✭funky penguin


    People have various reasons for repeating. I honestly don't know the process, but I do believe that if you have no good reason for doing it, then you should be capped.

    Bleh, mildly drunken opinion, ignore me.


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    #3049
    LeixlipRed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,081 ✭✭✭LeixlipRed


    If I tell you you need a good reason to repeat what will you do? Make one up.


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    #3050
    banquo
    Registered Users Posts: 9,487 ✭✭✭banquo


    LeixlipRed wrote: »
    If I tell you you need a good reason to repeat what will you do? Make one up.

    The man has a point! Still, it requires proof. I'm repeating 3rd year for an illness and I had to provide (as anyone who saw the thread will remember!) a plethora of stuff: sick notes, dates of doctor visits, all my various blood test results, etc. Though I know a few lads who got away with ''I'm, like, soooo depressed''.

    I know of one guy who started 2nd year on the full grant and dedcided at the start of the year: ''Right. I'll piss away this year havin' the craic and get it again for free next year''. He went into his exams and wrote sad songs. And they called him. He didn't even have to make a case.


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    #3051
    mickstupp
    Registered Users Posts: 1,764 ✭✭✭mickstupp


    Devia wrote: »
    As far as I know your mark is capped at 50% in repeats if you failed the subject or didn't have a legitimate reason for missing it. At least that used to be the case..
    Thank you!


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    #3052
    Rozabeez
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,878 ✭✭✭Rozabeez


    Sweet, essay extensions for my year! I love you, college.


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    #3053
    Duddy
    Registered Users Posts: 1,134 ✭✭✭Duddy


    My brother in LYIT has his exams postponed - no fair:(

    Its a bit strange that they didn't postpone ours, the schools are closed... I mean, most students don't have a soccer-mom vehicle at their disposal!:D


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    #3054
    Rozabeez
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,878 ✭✭✭Rozabeez


    Schools are closed for many reasons, burst pipes, parents unable to get children there, teachers unable to get in. A lot of the schools in the area aren't as accessible as the college, nor will we be sitting in a freezing cold classroom from 9am-4pm. Poor kids, unable to cope with these ARCTIC WEATHER CONDITIONS (I'm watching the news..)


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    #3055
    Michellenman
    Registered Users Posts: 11,195 ✭✭✭✭Michellenman


    Rozabeez wrote: »
    Schools are closed for many reasons, burst pipes, parents unable to get children there, teachers unable to get in. A lot of the schools in the area aren't as accessible as the college, nor will we be sitting in a freezing cold classroom from 9am-4pm. Poor kids, unable to cope with these ARCTIC WEATHER CONDITIONS (I'm watching the news..)


    Current temp in the arctic? -35 degrees. :rolleyes: rte exaggerate so much its unreal.


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    #3056
    mickstupp
    Registered Users Posts: 1,764 ✭✭✭mickstupp


    Boards.ie... procrastination be thy name.

    I need to turn off this computer.


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    #3057
    Rozabeez
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,878 ✭✭✭Rozabeez


    Haha! I know, was cracking up. Gonna paint my dog white and claim he's a polar bear. Will you be my penguin?


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    #3058
    Michellenman
    Registered Users Posts: 11,195 ✭✭✭✭Michellenman


    Funky penguin. Paging Funky Penguin


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    #3059
    Rozabeez
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,878 ✭✭✭Rozabeez


    Where is he? :(


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    #3060
    LeixlipRed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,081 ✭✭✭LeixlipRed


    I heard a kid went to school in the snow once and died. But he was eaten by a fox. A snow fox! But that fox had escaped from a zoo. But the the fence in the zoo was damaged by snow fall. Snow fall from a fake snow machine. The snow machine was brought to Ireland by a eskimo. An eskimo who emigrated to California when he was six...


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    #3061
    Michellenman
    Registered Users Posts: 11,195 ✭✭✭✭Michellenman


    LeixlipRed wrote: »
    I heard a kid went to school in the snow once and died. But he was eaten by a fox. A snow fox! But that fox had escaped from a zoo. But the the fence in the zoo was damaged by snow fall. Snow fall from a fake snow machine. The snow machine was brought to Ireland by a eskimo. An eskimo who emigrated to California when he was six...

    Jesus, what're the chances? Very sad altogether.


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