Results

tintinr35

so whats the sceal with the results, when are they out?

beanyb

We go to UCD. They dont tell us things like that.

hullaballoo

You will get your results between January and March (subject to extenuating factors).

Stabshauptmann

The earliest possible date is 5 working days after the first "school board" or what ever its called meeting of the new term

JustCoz

January......2009

tintinr35

between january and march.....thats a bit of a joke! oh well
cant wait to get out of this shít hole!

rainbow kirby

tintinr35 wrote:

oh well cant wait to get out of this shít hole!

QFMFT!!

tintinr35

what??

Stargal

Quoted for Mother-****ing Truth.

They're agreeing with you.

tintinr35

i see thanks

Mr_Roger_Bongos

As said before, all examination papers recieved by UCD up until this point, left on a container ship this morning, bound for panama. UCD get them back when the ship gets to panama, and they realise it doesn't fit through the canal anymore. So they're delivered back, then UCD marks them )or flushes them down the toilet, then you get your mark.

Jonny Arson

The registrar's email sent to me has confirmed ''Semester 1 assessments will be released on Monday the 29th of January.''

Mr_Roger_Bongos

/gets out handy U.C.D. translation pocket book

Zane from MTV2 wrote:

''Semester 1 assessments will be released on Monday the 29th of January.''

Translation - Late Febuary.

Whelo10

I just got an email from UCD sayin that the results will be out on the Monday the 29th of January, whether thats January 2007, or 2008 im not sure though!!

aequinoctium

jan 29th...or so they say

fish-head

Their get out clause is they didn't say which January. Crafty Brady.

elmyra

What a pile of twat. So what you're saying is I'll be back to college when they come out and I'll have to be surrounded by people who'll ask me how I did. That's not how it works. Exam results come out when college isn't on, you get them alone, and then if you've done well you contact people as and when you want to. If wireless goes down and/or there are impossible computer queues on the 29th, I'm writing a strongly worded letter...

gubbie

elmyra wrote:

What a pile of twat. So what you're saying is I'll be back to college when they come out and I'll have to be surrounded by people who'll ask me how I did. That's not how it works. Exam results come out when college isn't on, you get them alone, and then if you've done well you contact people as and when you want to. If wireless goes down and/or there are impossible computer queues on the 29th, I'm writing a strongly worded letter...

pish posh just tell them that you did grand and if they ask for anything else then tell them you don't like discussing them. Thats what I do whether they're good or bad so that people can never tell. I always find if you tell people then you automatically judge your result some way to theirs and that can either can make you feel superior or the other one

Dave!

elmyra wrote:

What a pile of twat. So what you're saying is I'll be back to college when they come out and I'll have to be surrounded by people who'll ask me how I did. That's not how it works. Exam results come out when college isn't on, you get them alone, and then if you've done well you contact people as and when you want to. If wireless goes down and/or there are impossible computer queues on the 29th, I'm writing a strongly worded letter...

Relax, nobody really gives a sh*t how you did, they're just being polite.

Red Alert

i have my spam filter trained to spot the VP students emails. be warned 1st years, results are never out on the day you expect.

delta_bravo

DaveMcG wrote:

Relax, nobody really gives a sh*t how you did, they're just being polite.

Were you being supportive there or just plain mean?:)

Dave!

A little bit from column A, a little bit from column B......... ¬_¬

valor

how can it take so fkin long to mark some papers, so annoying

The_Minister

valor wrote:

how can it take so fkin long to mark some papers, so annoying

There are about 22000 students in UCD.

rain on

The_Minister wrote:

There are about 22000 students in UCD.

Subtract about 2,000 that aren't sitting exams (postgrads, unmodularised final years, etc), multiply that by.. ooo, say an average of five exams per student, throw in the fact that staff would like a few days off for Christmas if that's not too much to ask thankyouverymuch, and it's pretty obvious why those 100,000 papers haven't been marked yet. Not to mention that once they are marked, school boards or somesuch have to meet and agree that the marking has been done properly.
There's also the thing of people not filling in their MCQs properly and some poor eejit having to sit there and rub out every single wrongly-entered exam/student number and put it in properly (yes, I had to do this for several thousand MCQs, yes, I am bitter) which completely defeats the point of MCQs. All these things add up.

Pantsless

There is no difference between the results coming out on the 1st of Jan or the 29th April you are still going to get the same grade. Whats the point in thinking about them ? Worry when you get confirmation of your failure

Umaro

Who said we're failures.. I guarantee everyone will get at least one A grade..

Stabshauptmann

are you a betting man?

Pythia

rain on wrote:

it's pretty obvious why those 100,000 papers haven't been marked yet.

AFAIK, pretty much all the papers would be marked at this stage. If a lecturer had about 200 exam scripts, marking 20 a day would take a week and a half. Pretty quick really.

Sarn

It depends when the lecturer receives the scripts, how many modules they have to correct, number of students in a class etc. As exams were held up to the 21st December with everyone finishing on the 22nd with 2 weeks holidays....(with some time dedicated to correcting scripts) it could take a while. Most scripts should be corrected by the end of this week though.

All of the marks/grades need to be compiled for each student, med certs checked, everything double checked. As mentioned above these then need to go to an exam board (usually with another board held before this) before results are released. Also if you happened to have exams which are not modularised there may be a further delay due to scheduling of exam boards.

rain on

Pythia wrote:

AFAIK, pretty much all the papers would be marked at this stage. If a lecturer had about 200 exam scripts, marking 20 a day would take a week and a half. Pretty quick really.

The actual marking is only part of the procedure though, there's a lot of technical admin stuff that has to be done before and after the scripts are marked, and that's really what's so time-consuming.

ETA: which is pretty much exactly what Sarn said.

*whistles*

Sangre

I finished my exams on Tuesday. I get my results in October.

Pythia

Sangre wrote:

I finished my exams on Tuesday. I get my results in October.

That's what you get for going to Trinity.

seraphimvc

Sangre wrote:

I finished my exams on Tuesday. I get my results in October.

emm...may i ask...is it only 1 subject??;)

my 1st yr fren (engineering) did only 1 test for the Xmas.........:rolleyes:

EDIT:

btw,are u really doing any proper 'all subjects' exam week like test in trinity??cause',my fren,seems is so free since the school open from last september ,classes are not much(bad timetable anyway,you may get a class on 9am then the other one on 3pm...),few homework...

such a big difference from our 1st yr science student!!

Stepherunie

We just found out our provisional results will be posted on Blackboard - handy out - originally they wanted people to collect them in the office - a slightly stupid and unhelpful idea for the nine of us who are off on Erasmus at the moment. Not sure when they'll be in but I'd say fairly soon as we're all back at college at the moment.

Sangre

seraphimvc wrote:

emm...may i ask...is it only 1 subject??;)

my 1st yr fren (engineering) did only 1 test for the Xmas.........:rolleyes:

EDIT:

btw,are u really doing any proper 'all subjects' exam week like test in trinity??cause',my fren,seems is so free since the school open from last september ,classes are not much(bad timetable anyway,you may get a class on 9am then the other one on 3pm...),few homework...

such a big difference from our 1st yr science student!!

No, I sat exams in all my subjects (3).

Also, I think Trinity Science has an extra year over UCD.

seraphimvc

Sangre wrote:

No, I sat exams in all my subjects (3).

Also, I think Trinity Science has an extra year over UCD.

just make this clear first,i am not doing 'general science ' in UCD,so i don't really know about the detail of doing tat course,but ,most the 1st yr students (science courses) are doing many similar subs this yr.i kinda heard something from my frens' course...

extra year???general science student normally do 4 yrs for a degree.Trinity student do 5 yrs???:eek: :eek: :eek:

plus,only 3 subs??tats all???great,now you are talking in the UCD board,which everyone here at least taking 4 subs for the Xmas exam....:p (us 1st yr scince student normally take 6)

tintinr35

Stepherunie wrote:

We just found out our provisional results will be posted on Blackboard - handy out - originally they wanted people to collect them in the office - a slightly stupid and unhelpful idea for the nine of us who are off on Erasmus at the moment. Not sure when they'll be in but I'd say fairly soon as we're all back at college at the moment.

are our results being put on BB too???

Chakar

tintinr35 wrote:

are our results being put on BB too???

If you mean Arts then no.You'll have to use SIS.

Stepherunie

tintinr35 wrote:

are our results being put on BB too???

I don't think so it was just our course that they're doing it for as far as I know, it was brought up at the programme board meeting last week.

Easygainer

singingstranger

Roffle.

Heyes

Out of curiosity has any results been given out for ucd exams yet ?

Sangre

Since you're not even back yet I'd doubt it.

Heyes

Sangre wrote:

Since you're not even back yet I'd doubt it.

im not in ucd, its for a friend.. just enquiring.

Stepherunie

28th or 29th - can't remember which date they're going up on SIS web for one and all.

Some courses are giving provisional results before that. 3rd and 4th Radiography are getting there radiography related results this week.

Vorsprung

We've been told it'll be the 1st week February for us, think they have case reports to finish off, then the board meeting to sign off on everything. Going up on SIS too I think.