Schols

ilovemybrick · 12-03-2007 11:40PM #1

To the rest of you going for them. Good luck.

Moorsy · 12-03-2007 11:46PM

You should be in Bed already! I saw how late you were posting last night, off to bed with ya!!!

ApeXaviour · 13-03-2007 02:48AM

I heartily second the OP's statement.

13-03-2007 11:20AM

Yep, good luck to everyone.

Awayindahils · 13-03-2007 01:56PM

Hey to everyone else doing them atm, best of luck..avoid the postmortems, particularly with the sillily smart people...

And don't look up too often.

Crash · 13-03-2007 02:41PM

Hey guys, best of luck. You'll do spiffing.

Comhra.... · 13-03-2007 04:11PM

Good luck, enjoy and have some fun when you are signing the big book. They ask what profession your Father is in. Mine was an astronaut!

Awayindahils · 13-03-2007 04:54PM

Comhra wrote:

Good luck, enjoy and have some fun when you are signing the big book. They ask what profession your Father is in. Mine was an astronaut!

I only got to sign a photocopy and they only wanted to know what his name was...:(

Far less fun than getting to tell them what he does.

Andrew 83 · 13-03-2007 06:14PM

Good luck!

BrenC · 13-03-2007 07:26PM

Good Luck with the exams everyone!

xebec · 13-03-2007 07:38PM

Good luck from me too! Bad memories of this time two years ago, but make sure to have fun afterwards!

europerson · 13-03-2007 09:53PM

Good luck to all you would-be Scholars. Remember it's all a bit of fun, and you'll look back on it very fondly.

Tricity Bendix · 14-03-2007 10:50AM

Awayindahils wrote:

I only got to sign a photocopy and they only wanted to know what his name was...:(

An absolute travisty of a disaster! There's little point in doing schols if you don't get to see the Big Book.

On that note, best of luck, one and all.

14-03-2007 10:55AM

Yep, best of luck!

ApeXaviour · 14-03-2007 12:43PM

europerson wrote:

and you'll look back on it very fondly.

Lies...

Sparks · 14-03-2007 01:06PM

europerson wrote:

Remember it's all a bit of fun, and you'll look back on it very fondly.

Damn lies!

Awayindahils · 14-03-2007 01:08PM

ApeXaviour wrote:

Lies...

Sparks wrote:

Damn lies!

Stop scaring the current schol students, who shouldn't be online right now and are.

Pet · 14-03-2007 01:44PM

Awayindahils wrote:

Stop scaring the current schol students, who shouldn't be online right now and are.

You need it though.

On another note, ****ing FLORA OF IRELAND. WHAT THE ****. just, WHAT.

Schols 1; Ronan 0.

ApeXaviour · 14-03-2007 01:47PM

Awayindahils wrote:

Stop scaring the current schol students, who shouldn't be online right now and are.

Awayindahils banned until schol exams are over.

europerson · 14-03-2007 02:43PM

Pet wrote:

FLORA OF IRELAND

Is that discussing (native) flowers and their distributions and stuff? I'm imagining questions like: "Discuss the pros and cons of rhododendron growing out of control in forests" and "Ranunculaceae in Ireland. Discuss their importance". I'm sure it could be argued, but it sounds difficult.

Crash · 15-03-2007 01:27AM

Yeah, heard Bio 1 wasn't a nice paper.

King.Penguin · 15-03-2007 08:49PM

that would have been a paul dowding question for bio2. I think it was paul anyway.

very answerable to be honest if you covered it but if you didn't....

roro can u keep a copy of your exam and either sohw it to me or scan it or something?

cheerz best of luck with the rest of the papers

shay_562 · 17-03-2007 04:06PM

Maths = cackfest.

Depressingly, that line demonstrates more mathematical knowledge than I managed to show in the entire bloody paper yesterday. Ah well. Partial exemptions are a kind of exemptions...

28-03-2007 11:44PM

Almost over for everyone I take it? Happy with how they went? Glad when they're over?

europerson · 29-03-2007 10:01AM

I think BESS doesn't finish till tomorrow, and most of our Schols babies seem to be BESS people this year.

shay_562 · 29-03-2007 12:00PM

I think BESS doesn't finish till tomorrow, and most of our Schols babies seem to be BESS people this year.

50% are BESS (to the best of my knowledge, myslef, Hils, ilovemybrick and Pet are the only boardsies doing it this year, and ilovemybrick is Philosophy and Pet is something Science-y), but with Hils banned (hee!) we suddenly drop to just 1/3. Which is kinda irrelevant, but then, I'm mostly just avoiding putting the final touches to my Gen Paper essay right now, so I'm grateful for the distraction.

To answer the questions: Not especially happy with how they went, wish I had been able to put all my efforts into them, but then, I made my choice last year about what I wanted this year to be, and I got that, so I can't exactly complain. I'm glad I did them - even if I don't get a thing from them, it's good experience to have, and it motivated me to keep up with my work this year, which I probably wouldn't have done otherwise. Still, the whole "living on campus" thing would be nice if through some freak chance it happens...

Pet · 29-03-2007 12:24PM

I'm not finished until tomorrow.

I'm not entirely happy with how they went; I have mixed feelings. Let me explain:

-On one hand, I only started working in the second week of February, and a lot of my time was spent catching up on and making up for bad attendance and laziness in Michaelmas term. So for how well I've done with that in mind, I really can't complain. Also, it got me to STUDY, something that's genuinely never happened before in my LIFE. I look at some of my reading lists, and I've done all the suggested reading. The people who know me are amazed. So, I guess it was quite a learning and character-building experience. Or so I attempt to convince myself..

-However...7 weeks or no, I worked my ass off during that period, and my only motivation was the idea of getting a scholarship. I wasn't in it for bronze or silver. I just don't work that way. It was an unrealistic expectation, however, and my exam performance was sadly lacking, so it's completely out of the question now. There's also the gaping void where my social life/hobbies for the past 2 months should have been, and my currently dangerous proximity to academic burnout.

I'll have to come back to this thread in a few weeks to decide if it was all worth it. Common sense says yes, brain/heart says NO FUCKING WAY, at least at this point and time. But that's exhaustion, moodiness, overcaffeination and apathy speaking.

Bottom line: Schols requires work. There's no way around it. I woulda-shoulda-coulda, if only if only if only, but that's it. Hindsight's a bitch.

Tacitha · 29-03-2007 03:58PM

Would you think about going for it again in third year, then, if it doesn't work out? I know a few people who got it that way.

shay_562 · 29-03-2007 05:04PM

Not a chance. The main thing that made it worth it this year was the fact that it was work I'd have needed to do one way or another; while I have respect for their work ethic, I can't understand how people motivate themselves to re-learn all this stuff again having already moved on, while simultaneously avoiding failing 3rd year.

ApeXaviour · 29-03-2007 05:24PM

shay_562 wrote:

while simultaneously avoiding failing 3rd year.

While you make an analytical sort of sense, I really can't agree. It's easier the second time round. Plus it puts you in an absolutely crazy study mindset for the JS exams. Your study and exam method is in top game and you just tend to keep up the momentum, because you have to. It's very doable (the JS exams are, that is).

shay_562 · 30-03-2007 05:04PM

While you make an analytical sort of sense, I really can't agree. It's easier the second time round. Plus it puts you in an absolutely crazy study mindset for the JS exams. Your study and exam method is in top game and you just tend to keep up the momentum, because you have to. It's very doable (the JS exams are, that is).

I'd be skeptical, but given that you've done it and I haven't, I might just take your word for it...this time!

Oh, and also? I'M FREE! FREEEEEEE!!! Whee hee hee hee hee!!

(Someone might wanna unban Hils at some stage, but really, there's no rush. Although one of the first things she said in the Pav today was "I get to post again!"...)

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