The 'How was your Exam?' Thread

Pythia

So everyone, how did you do?
Will I be seeing you in Blackrock or were you happy with the paper?
Anything come up unexpectedly?
Was it just as you hoped?
Tell all in this thread!

TheVan

All in all, it went pretty well.

In question 1, on debt factoring, there was a small bit referring to defective products and I was aware of the problem but just didn't know it...ggrrr!

Also the problem question on insider dealing was over a page long :eek: , took 10 minutes to read and decipher!

In the end, I reckon I did fairly well, I reckon a good 2:1.....

Now to study for international business law for tomorrow... :eek:

JustCoz

One down, four to go, woohoo! Corporate finance law, twas ok, could have gone better, forgot a few case names etc. Sounds like you're pretty happy with yourself anyway theVan!

failsafe

Strategy .. expected it to be a nightmare but not that bad! Just found out that I answered one question with the complete wrong answer (which is 33% down the drain!) Ah well, at least it's one down... roll on thursday!

Riamfada

History - easy enough but answered part 2 on The Pesant Revolt when i could have done a better essay on the consequesnces of the 100 year war. Part one wasnt so bad "deal with the remergence of heresy in the 12th-13th century"

ferdi

Grimes wrote:

History - easy enough but answered part 2 on The Pesant Revolt when i could have done a better essay on the consequesnces of the 100 year war. Part one wasnt so bad "deal with the remergence of heresy in the 12th-13th century"

if you ask me the heritics got what was coming to them

the evil lime

Could have been worse.

Could have been a lot better.

I'm pretty sure I passed though (thank god for continuious assesment!).

Chakar

Contemporary Irish Society and Culture 1st year
Did the first question on the Catholic Church that was alright I focused on the Catholic socialisation of the individual through the education system what did they do like self denial and consquence was repression of sexual love and passion

The second question was on the sociological theories of consumption that what I did, okay though.

Third question on how does the modernisation theory apply to the economic growth of the Celtic Tiger that was easy!

History Making Of Europe
The two questions I did were the purpose of the first crusade that was grand.The second question was the effects of the Black Death on western Europe,very easy did an essay on that topic with the exact same question.

Got International Politics on Thursday Sociology in Practice on Friday.

rain on

i was invigilating first year history, first year social policy and first year architecture. muchos eye candy, especially guys in green t-shirts for some reason. also i counted three beards in my section.

Chakar

rain on wrote:

i was invigilating first year history, first year social policy and first year architecture. muchos eye candy, especially guys in green t-shirts for some reason. also i counted three beards in my section.

I don't like you any more...

kittenkiller

the evil lime wrote:

Could have been worse.

Could have been a lot better.

I'm pretty sure I passed though (thank god for continuious assesment!).

Ditto to be sure to be sure.
Went in with 15% of it already.
Tomorrow's is the same but tis a whole load of essays.
Yuck!

anonymous_joe

Quants. May have passed. Hurrah.

meowCat

rain on wrote:

i was invigilating first year history, first year social policy and first year architecture. muchos eye candy, especially guys in green t-shirts for some reason. also i counted three beards in my section.

I invigilated 1st law, spanish, something with Irish culture, ex physic and programming for engineers. Eye candy? Hm, didn't look, tbh.
But loads of girls in horribly applied fake tan. There was one girl with weird hands. Her knuckles were distinctively darker than the rest of the patchy hand. Uagh. :eek: Looks so dirty! Was a wee bit surprised about the high percentage of girls in the ex physic section.

And got absolutely soaked on way from RDS to no10 bus stop. Took ages to dry in front of radiator with plenty of hot tea. Still, have a massive sore throat now

Red Alert

Crap! When's your next exam? Do the max dose of Lemsip Max Strength like I do and it always is gone in a day!

Serendipitous

failsafe wrote:

Strategy .. expected it to be a nightmare but not that bad! Just found out that I answered one question with the complete wrong answer (which is 33% down the drain!) Ah well, at least it's one down... roll on thursday!

I bet that was question 4 ..... horrible horrible question !! I wouldnt worry though because there have already been complaints filed about it. I had strategy too was expecting it to be a monster of an exam but i got through it. 1 down 5 to go

failsafe

It was question 4 indeed! I've been talking to two other people who did the exact same thing as me! But what the hey, i have a good mark from the CA and i'm just glad it's over. Financial Management here we come!

drdre

i did crap in economics theory.i will be repeating for sure.so will hopefully get grinds in summer and do well.
is there any way i can do my repeats in summer instead of december as it will be my final year.

HappyCrackHead

2nd history I : Early Modern Europe; Renaissance to Enlightenment

I did: Erasmus, Calvin and The Council of Trent. A lot of waffle, it'll get a 2.iii

WOOT no study

singingstranger

drdre wrote:

i did crap in economics theory.i will be repeating for sure.so will hopefully get grinds in summer and do well.
is there any way i can do my repeats in summer instead of december as it will be my final year.

You're modular next year, you should be timetabled to do the repeats the next time the subject is offered. If the subjects you're taking now are being offered again the first semester I'd wager that you'll have to take those ones at Christmas. Might wanna talk to the Programme Office to check that though.

Serendipitous

drdre wrote:

i did crap in economics theory.i will be repeating for sure.so will hopefully get grinds in summer and do well.
is there any way i can do my repeats in summer instead of december as it will be my final year.

No afraid u have to wait until next semester, repeats will be at Christmas time. I wouldnt think the worst though economic theory is usually marked pretty decently.......... thought i failed last year but passed somehow so i wouldnt worry about it

rain on

meowCat wrote:

Eye candy? Hm, didn't look, tbh.

:eek: did you not get sufficiently bored?

meowCat

rain on wrote:

:eek: did you not get sufficiently bored?

It's true, invigilating is sort of boring. But we actually were quite busy. We had very few invigilators and had to take care of the x seats too.

Additionally, these were all 1st years. Ways too young for me. When looking at the boys, I just cannot perceive them as anything male - they are babies to me.

So, it's more entertaining for me to bitch about the girlies queer sense of fashion and beauty.

rain on

meowCat wrote:

It's true, invigilating is sort of boring. But we actually were quite busy. We had very few invigilators and had to take care of the x seats too.

Additionally, these were all 1st years. Ways too young for me. When looking at the boys, I just cannot perceive them as anything male - they are babies to me.

So, it's more entertaining for me to bitch about the girlies queer sense of fashion and beauty.

yeah i was discussing the age thing with some of the other invigilators - my reasoning is that first years could easily be 19 or 20, and i'm 21, so it's not too much of a gap.

Riamfada

Actually there was one particularly hot invigilator yesterday doing my row. She was dressed in all black with dyed red hair...tasty. And 22 so its cool

elmyra

My English paper was um....

One yummy question (Merchant's Tale)

One meh-I-waffled-but-it-wasn't-totally-****e question (Nun's Priest's Tale).

The invigilator I've had for the past two days is soooo hot, he's got rugby player shoulders and general hotness goin' on. I think he's deadleh and now plan to take exams on in whatever subject area he's invigilating.

panda100

yeah theres a really cute invigalator who looks like freddie Prince Junior out in the RDS.He gave me an extra pad of paper today...I think I could be in there........:D
First exam yesterday went brill,2nd one 2day went crappy...I think I got too excited after yesterdays one and so didnt study too well last night(watched the oc instead)

elmyra

I walked in behind you yesterday and I accidentally said 'hey panda' but you didn't hear me....unfortunately my friends did...I'm pretty sure they're worried about both how I did in that exam yesterday and my sanity!

Yesterday's exam was good though!

meowCat

elmyra wrote:

I think he's deadleh and now plan to take exams on in whatever subject area he's invigilating.

We are not getting subject areas though. We usually get halls. Like I got assigned to the RDS Shelbourne. That's mostly 1st years, I think.

Riamfada

Shelbourne is only 1st years as far as I know. Cradlesnatcher

meowCat

Grimes wrote:

Cradlesnatcher

Hey! I said I didn't look

Hot invigilator guys? Hm... cannot remember any guys at all, tbh. Ah, no. There was this one guy who was supposed to do Simmonscourt and didn't realise that there's more than one hall and ended up invigilating with us. He was cute, I suppose.

panda100

elmyra wrote:

I walked in behind you yesterday and I accidentally said 'hey panda' but you didn't hear me....unfortunately my friends did...I'm pretty sure they're worried about both how I did in that exam yesterday and my sanity!

Yesterday's exam was good though!

I bet I looked stressed...I block everyone and everything out before I do an exam so was in my own pre exam panda world....sorry about that elmyra...do say hi again:)

Pythia

Grimes wrote:

Shelbourne is only 1st years as far as I know. Cradlesnatcher

There's nothing wrong with romantic liaisons with firsties!

Waltons

Programming earlier, in which I think I did pretty well Think I spotted Irlrobins too, if he was invigilating

Chakar

Pythia wrote:

There's nothing wrong with romantic liaisons with firsties!

Are you speaking from personal experience??

Lamia

Ah Programming. Didnt like it at all at all but think i scraped a pass I still love Fintan though.

Seraphina

first exam today
irish grammer, was grand enough, wasn't expecting hassle, was probably the easiest exam i'll have
only 8 to go!

Blowfish

Lux16 wrote:

Ah Programming. Didnt like it at all at all but think i scraped a pass I still love Fintan though.

If you found it difficult, I seriously recommend avoiding computer science in 2nd year. That exam was by far the easiest i've done in my 3 years of comp. sci.
Fintan is cool though. I loved his illustrating programming by using the example of making tea.

pretty*monster

English today... bit of a wash-out to be honest.

ferdi

2nd arch paper 1 wasnt great

singingstranger

2nd year German language. Utter pisstake. Out of there after an hour.

Waltons

Blowfish wrote:

If you found it difficult, I seriously recommend avoiding computer science in 2nd year. That exam was by far the easiest i've done in my 3 years of comp. sci.
Fintan is cool though. I loved his illustrating programming by using the example of making tea.

I would agree about the easyness, especially since the questions in which we had to write methods were very similar to some of the labs we'd done during the year, only easier.

Red Alert

methods... you OOP people sicken me!

besty

International Business Law this morning. We had the paper before going in which sounds great but it was a real struggle to get all of the 4 essays down in time. My hand feels like it's going to fall off - definitely the most I've ever written in a college exam, 15 pages or something crazy!

selephonic

rain on wrote:

yeah i was discussing the age thing with some of the other invigilators - my reasoning is that first years could easily be 19 or 20, and i'm 21, so it's not too much of a gap.

What about us mature student 1st years? I reckon I'm far too old for any of the invigilators

BKtje

yeah i was discussing the age thing with some of the other invigilators - my reasoning is that first years could easily be 19 or 20..

...or 23

Programming was tougher than expected but still so very easy.

Did Organisational Behaviour today and remembered why i did Comp Sci. I really really really hate essay type questions. I always end up all over the place

Still passed the exam..but did i pass it enough to cover the CA (thats continuous assesment and not cellular automata for those of u who may SEP on the brain!) that i missed. We'll see.

Was ina good mood coming home with the sun out and 2 exams of 5 done with.

anonymous_joe

Organisational Behaviour today. What a load of bull****. :rolleyes:

Didn't do too badly.

Font22

i too had international business law. i was kinda happy but have to see how it is marked. i even had time for a break, ate a banana and had a little drink!

singingstranger

anonymous_joe wrote:

Organisational Behaviour today. What a load of bull****. :rolleyes:

Didn't do too badly.

Effing loved OB!

anonymous_joe

singingstranger wrote:

Effing loved OB!

Did you do it this year?

You have the fat sexist bitch?

Joke of a subject. Did no study, as in none at all. Still quite confident I passed. Absolutely no relation to the real world, could have been interesting, instead just a continuous example that technical jargon does not an intellect make.

tintinr35

Pythia wrote:

There's nothing wrong with romantic liaisons with firsties!

there is if they are under 18;)

Chinafoot

Anyway, today I had History - War an Peace 20th century international crap.

It was ok. Got through it anyway. Feel like my hand is going to fall off. It was the first exam where I was there right til the end.


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Next off-topic post will earn the poster a ban