So, how was your exam?

Dave! · 01-12-2005 8:42pm #1

I figure this could be the thread where people come to to say how they feel about the exam they just did, be it good, bad, or indifferent

For me, just home from Early Medieval World exam, it went really well

I wrote about St.Patrick and his context.... easy enough really! I was pretty scared bout this cos I didn't know anything, so I was relying on my continuous assessment, but I'd say I did quite well on the essay! Everything up til the 3rd paragraph actually had factual information in it! :eek: I'm pleased with that

So how'd it go for everyone else? My friends all seemed to find it easy too -- with a choice of 8 titles, you're bound to find something you like, eh?

Riamfada · 01-12-2005 8:43pm

I did the reasons for the cult of Paddy in the 7th century. I kicked his ass. I think. Nice 3.5 pages done.

beanyb · 01-12-2005 8:47pm

I've a question about this exam, cos I'm in 2nd year history and just wanna see how it works this year!!

You only had to write one essay???

Riamfada · 01-12-2005 9:04pm

You are going to love this beanyb

1 exam
1 hour
1 question

8 questions given..... 8 topics will be up given in class choose one. 50%

Ruskie4Rent · 01-12-2005 9:17pm

Bleh! I'm indifferent about it. I did the Viking one, for some reason, and i'm wishin i did one of the Patrick ones. Its cos I was reading over my notes and stuff from what i learned on patrick just before the exam and i'd say i could've put more facts in it.
The one I wrote about the Vikings didn't end up being too long and I'm sort of pissed off about it.

Mr.Nice Guy · 01-12-2005 10:04pm

Grimes wrote:

You are going to love this beanyb

1 exam
1 hour
1 question

8 questions given..... 8 topics will be up given in class choose one. 50%

Hmm. Interesting. How did you approach it? Did you dive straight in or did you plan out stuff or what?

Riamfada · 01-12-2005 10:32pm

i did a rough work plan for the cult of st patrick question and then.... well.... i did it!

Macka · 02-12-2005 2:42pm

Man that exam was so easy, Charlemagne, thank you very much. Why was he crowned Emperor? Couldn't have been a better q considering it was the only one I studied....
5 pages... I'm happy:)

Dave! · 02-12-2005 9:11pm

So how'd Comparative go for you fools?

Went pretty good for me... I was able to ramble for about 3 pages. I don't mind that there's barely any information in it, once it's not a blank page

I did the reasons for the terror question, and I was kinda controversial, lol... I was all like "they only did it cos it was necessary, omahgawwddd :rolleyes:" and that

I tend to do that, when I've nothing factual to say, I start coming up with radical (or not so radical) opinions and going on about them.

In my mocks for the leaving I couldn't remember about Hitler, so I started going on about how he's a sh*te leader and he had no foresight (foreSIGHT

) and all this... I failed

Hopefully Goughy will appreciate my opinion more

Ahh I love that man... I was quite pleased when he showed up

He was kinda distracting though, cos I wanted to jump into his arms and hug him for bein so cool!

Sorry

(also sorry for the 7000 smileys

)

Scraggs · 02-12-2005 11:15pm

DaveMcG wrote:

sorry for the 7000 smileys

"I'm no good at judging the size of crowds Ted, but I'd say there's about seventeen million of them out there"
Father Dougal

Dave! · 02-12-2005 11:32pm

Scraggs wrote:

"I'm no good at judging the size of crowds Ted, but I'd say there's about seventeen million of them out there"
Father Dougal

lmao

orangerooster · 03-12-2005 12:19am

DaveMcG wrote:

Hopefully Goughy will appreciate my opinion more Ahh I love that man...

As an aside to history lecturers who were deadly I have two questions:
A) Did Hugh Gough play music over his powerpoints this year (if so did he do conducting signs with sheets of paper?)

Did you have Edward James who kicks Goughs ass purely due to his knowing Terry Pratchett and interest in fantasy?

The history exam definitely sounds kinda handy compared to last years. That said my English this year is DEFINITELY easier than last years-2 hours, seen papers wtf?

Dave! · 03-12-2005 11:48am

orangerooster wrote:

As an aside to history lecturers who were deadly I have two questions:
A) Did Hugh Gough play music over his powerpoints this year (if so did he do conducting signs with sheets of paper?)
Did you have Edward James who kicks Goughs ass purely due to his knowing Terry Pratchett and interest in fantasy?

The history exam definitely sounds kinda handy compared to last years. That said my English this year is DEFINITELY easier than last years-2 hours, seen papers wtf?

A) YEAH!

He played classical music sometimes (for the last lecture he played Beethoven's 9th for the whole thing), I didn't notice him conducting with sheets of paper though.

Yeah I had Edward James too, he's pretty cool alright, but I'm not a Lord of the Rings fan, so that didn't do much for me

But he's pretty cute with his little dickybow

Ruskie4Rent · 03-12-2005 9:02pm

I prefared Edward James, just because he was such a steriotypical academic type( posh accent, dickey bow, funy little goaty....).
My exam was good, better than Medieval, and I got a nice question for the reasons for the french revolution. Now its time to kick back and enjoy not studying for my next exam, in tue. week so i have a decent amount of time left.

Ruskie4Rent · 13-12-2005 2:27pm

So I had an Intro to Programing exam there. Not as pleasant as I had imagined it would be but I'm content with it. How did everyone else do?

Waltons · 13-12-2005 2:37pm

I thought it was grand. Just tried out the two programs I wrote and they're both grand so I've got fairly high expectations

Pythia · 13-12-2005 2:42pm

Tax was grand. Stats tomorrow but it's only half a course so shouldn't be too bad. (hopefully!)

Dave! · 13-12-2005 4:15pm

Went grand for me

I'd say I got a C or thereabouts... I don't really mind what mark I get as long as I pass!

Fintan showed up

He was wearing his leather jacket!

I've seen a chopper beside all the bicycles in college... is there any chance that's his?

I also stumbled across this picture, which only adds to my theory...

BKtje · 13-12-2005 4:56pm

rofl@pic

Easiest exam ive had in a long time. Was so easy that i started to think that i must be doing something wrong but we'll see

If i do as well as i thought then along with my practicals im gonna get a very sexy mark

13-12-2005 5:01pm

That exam couldn't have been easier. The simplest questions were asked imo. Could have easily been a lot harder. Managed to get all 4 questions done.

(The guy on the left seems to REALLY like Fintan.

)

BKtje · 13-12-2005 5:14pm

all four questions eh. Doubt i woulda had the time to properly do them all so the 25mins i had elft over i just spent re-checking my work.

13-12-2005 5:30pm

Yeah i was a bit shocked that I got the four done too. Planned to do 3 of them but decided to the whole nine yards. Had 5 minutes to check over them too. If any of them was hard, it was Q4, but it was a pretty nice test overall.

Waltons · 13-12-2005 5:31pm

Yeah, I was the same. I did 2 and 3 and then started to do 1, realised I couldn't be bothered and just looked over the stuff I'd done

Dave! · 13-12-2005 5:36pm

yeeshk all 4! I did 2 and only barely got them done! I spent about 20 minutes going through the paper and planning a bit, though. I looked at the clock at half and I was on like question 1a! :eek: Had to start paying more attention, lol.

Scraggs · 13-12-2005 6:00pm

Had my first exam today -Language Acquisition and Disruption.
Despite having the questions beforehand i still think i managed to fail

It was really embarrassing also, I sat in the wrong seat like a f.u.cking eejit [i just cant count these days] and when they went round checking student cards ur man was like ur in the wrong seat and was so nice about it which made me feel even stupider... i then had to get up and move which i did noisily [not intentionally] thus disturbing everyone...o the embarrassment...

anyway one down, four to go [and an essay worth 70%]

Waltons · 13-12-2005 6:07pm

/me offers Scraggs a hug

Scraggs · 13-12-2005 6:09pm

*accepts with grattitude...

mickomack · 13-12-2005 7:05pm

Had physics yesterday which was grand and Maths 2 today which was ok also 2 down 4 to go!

orangerooster · 13-12-2005 7:10pm

Had my first exam today also, Critical readings, despite managing to end up in the serpentine hall twice I eventually got to the correct centre where I think I did quite well.

BKtje · 13-12-2005 7:28pm

lmao orangerooster.
So that multiple choice answer sheet was in the right place then was it

orangerooster · 13-12-2005 7:50pm

Indeed it was!

selephonic · 13-12-2005 8:18pm

mickomack wrote:

Had physics yesterday which was grand and Maths 2 today which was ok also 2 down 4 to go!

Hey Mickomack, looks like I'm in your class then, good luck with maths tomorrow

Scraggs · 14-12-2005 11:47am

Had language use and communication this morning... it went ok... The quaetion on netspeak was good, kept thinking of boards...

Have cúlra na nualitríochta anocht ag a sé. Kinda bolloxed no idea what i'm gonna write! gonna study my ass off in the coming hours...when not surfin boards of course...

anyway 2 down, 3 to go [and a b!tch of an essay worth 70%]

BKtje · 14-12-2005 12:11pm

Had that "How the Earth Works" malarky. Went better than i thought but overall i stil think i failed (thats what happens when u go to like 5 lectures and only do half the tutorials work marks and then do sfa study).

37% ish overall i figured

Ah well i should pass the repeats.

Ruskie4Rent · 14-12-2005 1:13pm

Bloody repeats! I'm gonna hate doin them.
I'm goin to all of my tutorials and most of my lectures next semester.

Scraggs · 14-12-2005 1:21pm

^^me too...

rainbow kirby · 14-12-2005 2:10pm

Ruskie4Rent wrote:

Bloody repeats! I'm gonna hate doin them.
I'm goin to all of my tutorials and most of my lectures next semester.

You do realise exactly how many years I've been saying that to myself now?

Cannibal Ox · 14-12-2005 4:05pm

^:D

That RDS place is bloomin' freezing.

BKtje · 14-12-2005 4:39pm

I'm goin to all of my tutorials and most of my lectures next semester.

I promised myself that after my stint in DIT that i would attend everything in UCD. That promise lasted about a week before the first hangover kicked in and i was begging the phone to just gimme another 10 bleedin minutes (which of course it didnt ...so i cheated).

..next semester is another...umm semester (and a year too i guess

)!

Red Alert · 14-12-2005 7:48pm

the simonnscourt is much warmer than the other place, they've got some big ass gas heat-age there. but i think the ice rink is using the simmonscourt.

we were absolutely destroyed today. the guy is known to set very tricky exams but this one took the biscuit. very long, and every single damn question had a trick. what a way to start the finals! he's more or less knocked a fair percentage off our degrees and confidence which is going to bring the rest of the subjects down. he really went out of his way to set a hard paper...

i nearly bawled after the exam and if you'll excuse me i'm going to do the same now </rant>

Waltons · 14-12-2005 7:54pm

/me also offers Red Alert a hug

PaulDoh · 14-12-2005 10:32pm

B-K-DzR wrote:

Had that "How the Earth Works" malarky. Went better than i thought but overall i stil think i failed (thats what happens when u go to like 5 lectures and only do half the tutorials work marks and then do sfa study).

37% ish overall i figured

Ah well i should pass the repeats.

That test was a load of my @rse. Half the stuff wasn't even covered in the lectures or tutorials.

Ruskie4Rent · 15-12-2005 12:17pm

Did an all nighter studying for my last exam. Not a good idea cos I couldn't even remember the questions by the time I was halfway into my essayssssssssssssssssssssssssss.
Sorry I fell asleep on the keyboard.

TrickyRicky · 15-12-2005 2:50pm

Globalisation & Marketing management down, consumer behaviour, market research & Ireland in EU left, the joys of final year.........(sigh)

rainbow kirby · 15-12-2005 3:13pm

I had my first exam today... digital systems. It's a pain in the ass... the exam went about as well as I could have hoped, no worse, no better. So I'm quietly satisfied.

humbert · 15-12-2005 3:17pm

I don't do computers anymore but from what I've heard daltons exams have a history of being a pain in the ass....

Macseamusa · 15-12-2005 4:51pm

the industries hall is roasting, we had a girl that fainted on the first day, poor thing. invigilating is easy but boring. If anyone is going for a postgrad, become an invigilator for any exam you can, the pay is €12.65 an hour to walk up and down a hall, looking a students, making sure they arnt cheating.

Riamfada · 15-12-2005 5:01pm

Who has Archaeology for tomorrow?

Waltons · 15-12-2005 5:06pm

Macseamusa wrote:

the industries hall is roasting, we had a girl that fainted on the first day, poor thing. invigilating is easy but boring. If anyone is going for a postgrad, become an invigilator for any exam you can, the pay is €12.65 an hour to walk up and down a hall, looking a students, making sure they arnt cheating.

Yeah, christ that place is hot. And bloody noisy

Riamfada · 15-12-2005 5:13pm

Archaeology?

BKtje · 15-12-2005 5:20pm

I got stuck beside that fan yesterday while doing my accounting exam. Good god that was a pain in the ass. Was bliss tho whenever it stopped.

So, how was your exam?

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