Exams

drdre

So everyone, how are you set for the exams.i think im dead in economics.they lecturer gave no hints or tips at all.he is a a$$hole.so i think i will be failing this.and hopefully pass the other 6.
I have still not started studying seriously i donot know whats wrong with me.im not taking things serious enough.

So how are you doing and are you set for all your exams

Cannot wait till 26th may:D

pretty*monster

Ok... english I've done enough to bullsh*t my way through so long as the questions are broad enough, which they usually are.

Pilosophy... tricky, medieval's ok if the right question pops up, ditto soul and aesthetics.
I actually have the questions (or as good as) for political philosophy, the rationalists, ethical theory, Foucault and philosophy of being so I have no excuse but I still need to prepare my answers for some and I haven't a notion of being, because the course was all over the place and I only went to about three lectures (and one of those was during the election an I didn't take any notes).
I haven't a notion of Philosophical anthropology or ethics so I'm going to try and wing them.
Technically I should be sorted for Hume and Kant because I did an essay on it and the same topic's going to come up but... Kant' mental, I can't remember it all at once.

But I'm banking on acing logic (because it's blissfully simple and... logical) and hopefully that'll pull up m average...

tintinr35

i think ill pass politics but i failure in history of art imintent me thinks uugggggggghhhhhhhhi hate blackrock and i hate repeats!!!

snickerpuss

Yeah i'm trying to do medieval art at the moment and i haven't got a clue. I'm hoping my decent essays/slide exams and modernism/irish art papers will get me through.
Am so dead for irish its not even funny but i think i have about 20odd% so if my lingustics and scot's gaelic paper goes okay i might not fail.

I don't wanna have to go back to blackrock. *shudder*

panda100

snickerpuss wrote:

I don't wanna have to go back to blackrock. *shudder*

yeah thats why Im studying there today...thought studying in blackrock might instill the fear into me.....and its working..this place is creepy (cept for the lovely seats and free ballygowan water)

ferdi

almost certain to fail....alot

snickerpuss

Yeah at least since i failed something last year it won't be such a big shock/problem if it does happen.
Wow cheerful i know!

Riamfada

Im bracing myself for a series of fails this time... Boo after passing everything at xmass

tintinr35

snickerpuss wrote:

Yeah i'm trying to do medieval art at the moment and i haven't got a clue. I'm hoping my decent essays/slide exams and modernism/irish art papers will get me through.
Am so dead for irish its not even funny but i think i have about 20odd% so if my lingustics and scot's gaelic paper goes okay i might not fail.

I don't wanna have to go back to blackrock. *shudder*

what are u doin for Medieval? im doin gothic architecture, rayonist and i dont really know what im doin for the rest!!! went to the su shop yesterday and got all the modernism readings.........ya 24 euro and not a notion of me reading them all

Mr.Nice Guy

I'm not making any plans for August let's put it that way.

elmyra

Hey MNG I covered Luther, Erasmus and Calvin and all the reformation stuff today. Planning on doing Richlieu and the 30 years war and the counter ref tomorrow....the fear has finally hit obviously, but seriously just take it one exam at a time and start today, if you can do six topics in a weekend you can definitely pass, even four or five would cover you if you were lucky.

snickerpuss

tintinr35 wrote:

what are u doin for Medieval? im doin gothic architecture, rayonist and i dont really know what im doin for the rest!!! went to the su shop yesterday and got all the modernism readings.........ya 24 euro and not a notion of me reading them all

I photocopied them during the year and didn't read them. She seems to ask about Clement Greenberg and what he thought about modernism so i might study that.
I'm doing Gothic Arch, Romanesque Arch, Maybe Inular Manuscripts but i don't know anything about them!
How are you for 19thc French? I'm so screwed its not funny. She mentioned Romanticism/Millet and that whole city to the country thing. Then Haussmanization and Manet. Oh and David.
So i'm so so dead for that.


On a total side note, who are you in art history? Are you the chap with glasses who sits at the back on the right?

Red Alert

Maths - i've a leg up because practically nobody else ever came in for it.
Antennas - terrible, have done very little on it.
Digital Communications - know half, will wing the rest
Communication Systems - My 5th option, although open book.
Digital Electronics - Know enough to wing most of it.
Biomedical - Need to do really well in this for next year, know most of it ok ish.
Radio Frequency Systems - Huge course, with plenty of 'trap' questions. Doing ok in it.
Optoelectronics/Filters - A bit wobbly. Will sort it out tomorrow.
Applications of DSP - Got 20% bagged already. Lecturer has set consistently easy exams.

Could be worse i suppose!

Scraggs

Psychology [x1]...royally fúcked! the lectures i did manage to attend were spent on boards *curses wireless in Th L*
Linguistics [x2]... Absolutely ****ed havent a clue where to even start, and I have to do well in the exam coz I barely passed my continuous assessment.
Gaeilge [x2]... Really looking forward to this as I know I can do well if I put some effort in.... especially looking forward to Scríobhnóireacht an Lae Inniu paper as I find it so interesting and actually enjoy studying it.

Oh and then I've a stupid essay to write worth 70% for Irish Studies...its so lame uch...

tintinr35

snickerpuss wrote:

I photocopied them during the year and didn't read them. She seems to ask about Clement Greenberg and what he thought about modernism so i might study that.
I'm doing Gothic Arch, Romanesque Arch, Maybe Inular Manuscripts but i don't know anything about them!
How are you for 19thc French? I'm so screwed its not funny. She mentioned Romanticism/Millet and that whole city to the country thing. Then Haussmanization and Manet. Oh and David.
So i'm so so dead for that.


On a total side note, who are you in art history? Are you the chap with glasses who sits at the back on the right?

19th century french she kept mentioning courbet so im def doin him!! but thats only one question dunno WTF to do for the others!! i was talking to nicola figgis and she said to focus on whats on blackboard......then again thats an awful lot!!!

ya im the guy with the glasses who sits at the back!!! thats not fair tho cause there are too many women for me to speculate!!!

drdre

ferdi wrote:

almost certain to fail....alot

same as me:D

rainbow kirby

Well... I only have 3 exams.
Unix Operating System: Set for the Unix part, the C programming part needs a bit of revision. If only C wasn't so retarded with how it deals with strings, and I was better at dealing with regular expressions, I'd be ok. Think I'll pass though.

Data Structures and Algorithms 2: Should be ok, just need to do a LOT of revision. I've got a relatively OK practical mark, so hopefully that'll carry me a little.

Maths for Computer Science: Blecch. Not *totally* fux0red, but just need to look at a lot of problems. I have a feeling that actually doing the problem sheets, and not having spent the lectures online, would have been a good idea.

besty

I have 4 exams, starting Tuesday. I have the 4 questions prepared for that so not too bothered. The problems begin on Friday with Commercial Law and then Land Law on Saturday morning. After that, 6 days to M.E.R. and then it's happy days!

drdre

besty wrote:

I have 4 exams, starting Tuesday. I have the 4 questions prepared for that so not too bothered. The problems begin on Friday with Commercial Law and then Land Law on Saturday morning. After that, 6 days to M.E.R. and then it's happy days!

i hate all the readings in mer.i havenot even started yet and have 2 days to do the whole mer course:mad: .but i have heard that its hard to fail the subject.

TheVan

Corporate Finance Law on Monday....having trouble with it
Tues, international business law, should be fine
Sat, Land law.....hopefully with the little break it will be ok but I aint looking forward to it
Friday, MER.....yuck....thats the politest word I can use for it!

Exar Khun

so you could say, we're all going down together..... or is that just weird.

arbeitsscheuer

Well... Purely focussing on the 3 exams I have this coming week:

Tuesday - War and Peace 20th Century International Relations

• Origins of WW1
• Versailles
• Build-up to WW2
• 1941 as Turning Point of WW2
• Origins of Cold War
• Atomic Bomb
• Cuban Missile Crisis

Thursday - Northern Irish Troubles (from War to Peace?)

• Origins of conflict
• Unionist and Nationalist Perspectives
• Roles of the Main Combatants
• Settlements, Peace Moves
• Good Friday Agreement and its Consequences

Friday - The Irish Experience 1919-2000

• No idea... boned.

None of which I've started yet.

snickerpuss

tintinr35 wrote:

ya im the guy with the glasses who sits at the back!!! thats not fair tho cause there are too many women for me to speculate!!!

Eh well i'm the chick with glasses and curly blonde hair who sits a few rows in front of you, generally looking bored/tired. If that helps...since i guessed correctly who you are!
Yeah i'll definately be doing courbet. I'm trying to revise modernism which is the only one i'm looking forward to!

Chinafoot

SebtheBum wrote:

Tuesday - War and Peace 20th Century International Relations

• Origins of WW1
• Versailles
• Build-up to WW2
• 1941 as Turning Point of WW2
• Origins of Cold War
• Atomic Bomb
• Cuban Missile Crisis

Tbh all I'm doing there is
Origins of WW1 (both long and short term although rumour has it, it'll be a July Days question)
War becoming a Global War
Atomic Bomb
Origins of the Cold War
Cuban Missile Crisis

I know I'm most likely shooting myself in the foot but I *hate* this course.

Sebthebum wrote:

Friday - The Irish Experience 1919-2000

• No idea... boned.

So screwed for this one. Going to try and focus on,
War experiences North and South (ie: social policy)
Women's movemet
Craig's government
The Liberal Aagenda

I also *hate* this course.

Waltons

Got 4 exams.

Programming on Tuesday shouldn't be too bad. Looking at the sample paper he gave us (which he said was probably harder than the exam will be) I was able to do all of it. Helps that we've already done 40% of the course too!

History of Psychology....I mistakenly thought I'd have an interest in this. Went to a good few of the lectures but everything just went in one ear and out the other. Still, there are a load of shorter questions rather than essays, so I'll probably be able to pull through ok.

Information & Society. I did Info Studies last semester too, and I'm expecting pretty much the exact same questions to come up for this. Essays too, so there's a good chance for waffle

Finally, Quantitative Economics. Have 30% of the marks for this already, and the maths isn't too hard at all so I doubt it'll go too badly. In the case it does, attempt marks FTW

Hermione*

SebtheBum wrote:

Well... Purely focussing on the 3 exams I have this coming week:

Tuesday - War and Peace 20th Century International Relations

• Origins of WW1
• Versailles
• Build-up to WW2
• 1941 as Turning Point of WW2
• Origins of Cold War
• Atomic Bomb
• Cuban Missile Crisis

Thursday - Northern Irish Troubles (from War to Peace?)

• Origins of conflict
• Unionist and Nationalist Perspectives
• Roles of the Main Combatants
• Settlements, Peace Moves
• Good Friday Agreement and its Consequences

Friday - The Irish Experience 1919-2000

• No idea... boned.

None of which I've started yet.

Seb, are you doing all my course?!

War and Peace: Should be able to bull**** quite easily on Richard's part of the course, or at least on the origins of World War I. Praying for containment or atomic bomb from Mitch. God knows what other random waffle I'll give them.

NI: War to Peace: lots of stuff on Blackboard but it's really difficult to read stuff on blackboard. Lecture notes are also there, which is good, cos his lectures were so boring I stopped going in February. Hoping civil rights or O'Neill will come up, cos I've covered that for history

Irish Framework: Fortunately, I ilove Ireland in the 20th Century (it's my first choice for both ucd and tcd next year) so with any bit of luck, I should be able to waffle authoritavely (sp?). Problem is, I know the basics of it so well, I've done very little in-depth reading cos what's easy for me always bores me :rolleyes: Hoping my in-depth knowledge of Irish foreign policy (thanks Fanning!) will prove useful. Also, WT Cosgrave and Dev, the liberal agenda (since I come from a very liberal home, and my dad's a product of the sixties, so I've grown up on this type of stuff), and possibly the recent transformation of Ireland. Since there's so little documents available, even historians have to speculate so I'll just substitute my speculation! Presumably at some stage, I'll also bore them with my my vague and unstantiated knowledge of Northern Ireland :rolleyes:
Atm, am realising the advantages of growing up in such a politically aware household

Sangre

Lets see now...

9th - International Business Law (1st plz)
-Principle of autonomy
-Current trends in dispute resolution
-Security & predictability in WTO
-Amicus curaie briefs in WTO

20th - Evidence (2.1 plz plz plz)
-Hearsay
-Confessions
-Improperly obtained evidence
-Privilege
-Legal/evidential burden
-Bad Character
-Identification

26th - Equity (2.1 plz)
-Common mistake
-Wife & Bank - undue influence
-estoppel/legitimate expectation
-Specific Performance
-Mutual Wills

27th - Criminology (1st plz)
-Feminist Criminology
-White Collar Crime
-Environmental Criminology
-Genetics

30t - Jurisprudence (2.1 plz)
-Marxist Law
-Law/morality debate
-HLA Hart
-American Realists
-Natural law in Ireland
-Kelsen and the Revolutions

Equity is in the evening and criminology is the next morning, not cool.

Jonny Arson

Friday 12th - Expanding Horizons: Ireland, Europe and the World, AD 800-1800s

study done so far? 2 hours = funk all, 4 days left.... I need to kick myself up the ass badly!

If Viking Dublin, Anglo-Norman castles, Anglo-Norman urban/rural settlements all come up I'm laughing but I don't have a notion of the rest of the course. I should be ok, 12% in bag and with a guess another 16-20% in the bag on top of that... there's no excuses for failing.

TheVan

Ok so people are doing detailed lists? Well here's mine:

8th - Corporate Finance Law

Charges over Book Debts
Insider Dealing
Ultra Vires, Agency and Turquand's Rule
Debt Factoring
Promoters' Liabilities

9th - International Business Law

Amicus Curiae Briefs
The principle of "prompt and effective" in the WTO
The Light shed on the DSU by EC Bananas
Current trends in international dispute resolution

13th - Land Law

Easements
Words of Limitation
Merger of Law and Equity
History of Freehold Tenure
Lease/Licence Distinction
Contractual Licenses
Co-Ownership
Adverse Possession
Ownership Above and Below the Surface

19th - Managing Employee Relations

Fordism
Post-Fordism
Globailization and Europeanization
Social Pacts and Partnership Agreements
HRM and Personnel Management

drdre

loadz of people are doing the same exam as me the MER on 19th may.
its so much reading.:mad:

Blush_01

Ooh, I like this game.

11th - 18th Century Literature
Evelina
Pamela
A School for Scandal
She Stoops to Conquer
Shamela
The English Novel (Fielding and Richardson)
Poss. Women's Issues

22nd - 19th Century Literature
The Importance of Being Earnest
King Solomon's Mines
North and South
Poss. A Drama in Muslin/Bleak House
Victorian Issues
Not a clue

29th - Medieval Texts and Manuscripts
Accurate transcription of set piece from manuscript
Translation of above into idiomatic English
Font distinctions
Hocleve
The Owl and the Nightingale
Findern

31st - Gender and Sexuality in Shakespeare
Queer theory in Shakespeare
Lesbianism and lesbian visibility in two of Shakey's plays
Poss. Romeo and Juliet with Othello with reference to homo- and hetero- eroticism in the early modern period.
Bestiality in A Midsummernight's Dream and The Tempest.

31st - Language in Ireland
Hiberno-English grammar
Stage Irishness
The D4 accent - fact roysh or, loike, fiction
Shelta (maybe - it's a bit sensitive though!)
Analysis of Hiberno-English writing
Hiberno-English as Irish thoughts through English words

2nd - Irish Theatre Controversies
By the Bog of Cats
Translations
In the Shadow of the Glen
The Plough and the Stars
Poss. Playboy
Stage Irishness as a means of reaching an international audience
Controversies surrounding the plays and their performances - riots at the performances etc.

Not three bad, really. Medieval will probably be the worst because it's so technical, but half of Hiberno is the same, and Hiberno and Shakey are on the same day which is poo on a stick.

HappyCrackHead

My exam starts in aprox. 8 hours.

Amount of hours study done aprox. : 0

Thoughts: Attempting Suicide (walking in front of traffic or losing enough blood in order to pass out and hopefully be found before losing TOO much)

18AD

Yeah, I'm in at 9:30 for geology *sigh*

This no-study-done lark always happens. But I always seem to get by ok. *crosses fingers*

Blush_01

You'll all be fine. We're college students, it's what we're supposed to do.

HappyCrackHead

I fear this is one im not gonna coast through

in fact i kind of feel like screaming... A LOT

18AD

It will randomly work out!

HappyCrackHead

18AD wrote:

It will randomly work out!

what?

how?

rainbow kirby

You will be touched by His Noodly Appendage, with all the answers, at some time during your exam.

18AD

Be sure to be in full pirate regalia though!

HappyCrackHead wrote:

what?

how?

I'm not quite sure. I was quoting Leon Phelps. And hey, it worked out for him

HappyCrackHead

I'm an atheist.... though i did consider pastafarianism for a time as an acceptable religion. the FSM is an acceptable deity from a purely secular point of view.

oh one other thing. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH*

*that's me screaming inside my head

Pythia

HappyCrackHead wrote:

pastafarianism

Mmm, pasta. Good choice!

tintinr35

List cause i clearly have Fúck all else to do:

Tuesday 9th Politics Paper 1
Civic republican and contractarian thought
international relations theory

Thursday 11th Politics Paper 2

Political research (AKA Satan's subject)

Saturday 13th History of Art Paper 1

Modernism

Monday 15th History of Art Paper 2

Irish Art

Wednesday 17th Politics Paper 3

Comparative Politics

Thursday History of Art Paper 3

19th century french painting

Saturday 20th History of Art paper 4

Medieval Art and Architecture

Monday 22nd:D Politics Paper 4

Non-Democratic Regimes
Democratic theory
Post communist russia


from 12:30 onwards on monday my braincells will be taking a beating!!!

Chinafoot

Might as well..

Tuesday 9th - History Paper 1
War and Peace
- Origins of WW1
- War becoming a global war
- Origins of the Cold War
- Decision to drop the atomic bomb
- Cuban Missile Crisis

*screwed*

Thursday 11th - English Paper 1
18th Century literature
- Pamela
- Shamela and Joseph Andrews
- Gulliver's Travels
- School for Scandal
- She stoops to conquer

*will be very much blagging my way through this one*

Friday 12th - History Paper 2
The Irish Experience
- Changing role of women
- Social policy north and south during the war
- Craig's N.I. government
- The Liberal Agenda

*screwed for this one*

Tuesday 16th - History Paper 3
The Age of Charlemagne
- Charlemagne's Ancestors
- Reforms at Charlemagne's Court
- Military campaigns
- The Coronation

*Should be grand*

Saturday 20th - History Paper 4
Sexuality & Society in Medieval Ireland
- The Church and the Secular World
- Augustine
- St. Brigit
- Longes mac nUislean

*fine for this one. she pretty much gave us the paper*

Monday 22nd - English Paper 2
19th Century Literature
- Jane Eyre
- North and South
- A Drama in Muslin
- Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry
- Importance of Being Earnest.

*Shouldn't be too bad*

Hermione*

Peachy, you have FIVE exams ... why didn't I do English?!
/smacks self across forehead for lack of foresight two years ago (actually, four in my case )

Chinafoot

/pets Denise.

Uhmmm I have 6.

arbeitsscheuer

Well, in fairness, it's not like she's doing maths.

I have 8, reckon Denise must hav 8 too (given that she seems to be doing the same subjects as I).

Boned. Completely, utterly, painfully boned.

If I should fail, think only this of me... I'll be back next year.

TheVan

I have 4 .... thank god for B&L being semesterised from the start....had 3 at christmas so no worrying about them!

Hermione*

peachypants wrote:

/pets Denise.

Uhmmm I have 6.

Umm, ya, so you do ... and I was actully quite good at maths and physics in school (Leaving Cert physics, basically if you can do maths you're grand! )

Indeed, Sebastian, I have eight ... and need a II.I so badly! My chances are not good though :mad:
Aren't you repeating? I don't think you can repeat twice, dear.

ferdi

i had 7...i now have 6....this time tomorrow i'll have 5

snickerpuss

I have 9 stupid exams, i should have taken english! Why Irish want 5 papers and oral i don't know.
So glad i didnt start today i have done NO work! Although i dont feel so bad from reading about everyone else doing no work.
I swore i wouldnt do no study again...

Vainglory

snickerpuss wrote:

I have 9 stupid exams, i should have taken english! Why Irish want 5 papers and oral i don't know.
So glad i didnt start today i have done NO work! Although i dont feel so bad from reading about everyone else doing no work.
I swore i wouldnt do no study again...

Yeah I had 9 exams this time last year...damned Philosophy with their 5 papers..