OMG EXAMS & \o/ Semester 2

Suaimhneach

So! Who's completely and utterly fuc|<ed? And who's ready?

This year I am hoping to pass everything...! \o/

I dont gots a semester two tho, just 8 months of fun work experience!! It's gonna be weird not going back. And still going to cmte meetings and occassionally beering...

Amz

Well it's going to be interesting ...

gizmo

...especially with my finals this time around.

rugbug86

i've got 5 - sorted for 4

crappin bout the other

i do have a semester 2. lots and lots of labs.

yeay!

cooker3

I'm screwed. Still only the finals, nothing important like.

:|

I have 2. One's grand and the other eh not so much
I'm sick of the library after spending one day there

phantom_lord

I missed nearly all my lectures, and haven't started studying yet. dam poker...

DemocAnarchis

Its going to be interesting alright...

johnny_ultimate

Only two assignments to finish, no exams, back Feb. 4th or so.
CS1 FTW

cooker3

phantom_lord wrote:

I missed nearly all my lectures, and haven't started studying yet. dam poker...

Do you even know what course your doing.

phantom_lord

cooker3 wrote:

Do you even know what course your doing.

ssshhh, I wanna play that student event.

I opened the books last night, but ended up multi tabling my way through the night. time for bed!

cooker3

phantom_lord wrote:

ssshhh, I wanna play that student event.

I opened the books last night, but ended up multi tabling my way through the night. time for bed!

Of course when you say multi-tabling I assume you mean you put books from each subject on differant tables and studied them!

phantom_lord

It's odd, the only writing I've had to do in the last six months was to put my name on the board for the cash games in the fitz.

Cina

CASE2. This semester is seriously a MAJOR step up from last year innit? So much more to learn etc. Especcially Networks, it's bloody huge. And the weird thing is I feel like I've learned less. Still though, should be fine .. I hope.

cooker3

Cina wrote:

CASE2. This semester is seriously a MAJOR step up from last year innit? So much more to learn etc. Especcially Networks, it's bloody huge. And the weird thing is I feel like I've learned less. Still though, should be fine .. I hope.

this is something you will notice throughout the 4 years, just learn to accept it.

rugbug86

and its not just CASE it happens in, it happens in MOST courses

(i say most, i exclude some arty farty courses where hours decrease after 1st year and there's no quality lab time :P)

Prufrock

Yep fairly screwed. Have 6 and I'm screwed for 2. My own fault though so can't complain. CAIS.

Scráib

Exams don't start until Saturday for me, which isn't so bad. Four to do, I should be ok I think!

Whats worrying me more is that Semester 2 is my final semester - I haven't a clue what I'll be doing come Summer, let alone this time next year! How will I survive outside of DCU!?

cognos

Prufrock wrote:

Yep fairly screwed. Have 6 and I'm screwed for 2. My own fault though so can't complain. CAIS.

If thats CAIS2 I'd guess networks and probability are the 2 of 6 that ur screwed for, im CASE2 and thats my situation.

Just realised on my way home today (when I say a new 07 car!) that I wrote the date as 16/1/06 on my answer book for my test this morning, anyone know of thats likely to cause problems (like marks off for stupidity?)

Suaimhneach

Go back to the company you worked for in Intra. Also, careers service etc!!
FRFG3 dont have exams til Sat either. Wahts with that. I have four in a row!

cooker3

Well I think I speak for a lot of CA4 here when I say after todays exam it looks like it's a pass degree at best.

gizmo

Don't worry Rob, we've taken this to Eoin Byrne (Edu & Welfare in the SU) and the cogs have already begun turning to rectify the situation.

rugbug86

oooh what happened!!

eh,had my first one today. nice to settle me in. i'd be hoping for at least 70% in it.

tomorrow? not so hopeful! it'll be my downfall.

StickyMcGinty

cooker3 wrote:

Well I think I speak for a lot of CA4 here when I say after todays exam it looks like it's a pass degree at best.

yea i heard sinclar stung yous bad...

you sould have seen algorithms and complexity this year, easiest exam i've had so far, and the past paper yous did was a nightmare

Scráib

First exam tomorrow, gah! Why do the registry always put our (Fiontar) exams on a Saturday? Its happened to me every year except first year!

cooker3

rugbug86 wrote:

oooh what happened!!

eh,had my first one today. nice to settle me in. i'd be hoping for at least 70% in it.

tomorrow? not so hopeful! it'll be my downfall.

We basically got a really horrible paper, bit more to it but thats sums it up. As simon said su and class reps are trying to sort it out. Go our lovely class reps

:|

Do you think they'll be able to do anything about it?

cockmynut

gizmo wrote:

Don't worry Rob, we've taken this to Eoin Byrne (Edu & Welfare in the SU) and the cogs have already begun turning to rectify the situation.

You're pure evil, Simon. Pure, pure evil. :cool:

CASE2 exams haven't been that bad. I didn't go in for Data Structures and Algorithms so I'll have a couple of repeats. Languages + Computability and Probability next week though.

*Prepares for MASS FAILURE*

rugbug86

was it CA3 in the sports hall that all stood up bang on 3 and left? Bad exam? or easy?

still thought it was funny. except for the one guy still left. on his own.

GavMan

rugbug86 wrote:

was it CA3 in the sports hall that all stood up bang on 3 and left? Bad exam? or easy?

still thought it was funny. except for the one guy still left. on his own.

He must have been a ****in idiot. It was CA3. Multiple choice paper and he always uses the same questions. I was done in like 15mins. And i took my time

rugbug86

he was still there at the end.

complete hilarity.

i had about 4 minutes to spare in my exam and he was still sitting there scratching his head.

Kenny_D

Haha I cant believe someone stayed in for the entire AI paper. Had all the answers marked off in exactly 15 mins. Next 20 mins involved shading in boxes and checking over answers. Last half hour or so was spent looking at the clock. lol

Kenny_D

cockmynut wrote:

You're pure evil, Simon. Pure, pure evil. :cool:

CASE2 exams haven't been that bad. I didn't go in for Data Structures and Algorithms so I'll have a couple of repeats. Languages + Computability and Probability next week though.

*Prepares for MASS FAILURE*

Does Jane Horgan still teach Probability. If she does, you'll prob be in for a hard exam. She screwed CASE2 last year. Around half the class (about 35 people) had to repeat

rugbug86

oh and to keep with the flow of the thread...

i've had 2 exams. 3 mroe to go.

thursdays was legend - best exam ever

yesterdays not so good. i'll be lucky to get 25% to compensate nevermind 40!!

cognos

GStormcrow wrote:

Does Jane Horgan still teach Probability. If she does, you'll prob be in for a hard exam. She screwed CASE2 last year. Around half the class (about 35 people) had to repeat

We wish! Surley she couldnt screw us any more than Dr. Shakira looks set to. I've never come anywhere near close to failing an exam before but thats about to change. Only hope is that he's trying to impress with a great pass rate in his class so he goes easy on us.

cooker3

cognos wrote:

We wish! Surley she couldnt screw us any more than Dr. Shakira looks set to. I've never come anywhere near close to failing an exam before but thats about to change. Only hope is that he's trying to impress with a great pass rate in his class so he goes easy on us.

oh you know you have never had Jane Horgan if you actually wish to have her!

StickyMcGinty

good aul darragh o brien screwed us today anyway, bastard

gizmo

Really? What did he do Vinny?

Smellyirishman

rugbug86 wrote:

was it CA3 in the sports hall that all stood up bang on 3 and left? Bad exam? or easy?

Yeah, that was great.

Today, not so much. He just asked kind of obscure stuff and left out a memory addressing thing that a lot of people were banking on (not me, although I was regretting having not covered it going in) because he hinted at it in the last lecture. He always manages to find things that I have no recollection of ever seeing, no other lecturer has that ability! It's wasn't as bad as OS last year though.

Oh well, only UML left now and at the moment it's looking like 5-0.

lau1247

two done and three to go..

Digital and systems,
Probability and stats,
Analogue and control systems

Two hard ones are done.. reckon it should be alright..
Three left.. lets hope I'm still this upbeat by the end of the week

cockmynut

GStormcrow wrote:

Does Jane Horgan still teach Probability. If she does, you'll prob be in for a hard exam. She screwed CASE2 last year. Around half the class (about 35 people) had to repeat

Nope, our lecturer is Adel Sharkasi. He knows his stuff but continuous assessment went woefully for me and I generally find maths-related stuff very difficult to follow.

"Then wtf are you doing in CA?", you ask...

public_enemy

cockmynut wrote:

"Then wtf are you doing in CA?", you ask...

Yeah, you should like... drop out and do journalism or something...

fobster

Finished there yesterday with financial theory, paper was grand, 6 questions answer 4. Stupid thing was about 3 of the questions were on the same topic and had a lot of crossover questions, kept on repeating myself again and again.

Suaimhneach

Two down, three to go. Next three are in a row, at 9.30 I am not a morning person at all at all!!

Seriously.

Kinda feel prepared for the next two, but the final one I;ve no work done for and am kinda unsure of what excatly to study loike...

StickyMcGinty

gizmo wrote:

Really? What did he do Vinny?

This is only his second year doin the module, so he said he'd base the entire exam paper on last years main and repeat paper.

fair enough, i didnt expect him to give it exactly as last years, but i worked out that about 40 odd marks of the 200 available were last years questions.

he even went so far as to tell us to bring a calculator to the exam for the address translation question, and then didnt even give it on the paper.

i dunno, maybe him and sinclar go out on the beer together or somthin, i dont usually moan about exams as usually its my fault if i fail them but this paper really annoyed me

Cina

cockmynut wrote:

Nope, our lecturer is Adel Sharkasi. He knows his stuff but continuous assessment went woefully for me and I generally find maths-related stuff very difficult to follow.

"Then wtf are you doing in CA?", you ask...

Heh, I thought Adel was a woeful lecturer, mainly because I couldn't understand him. But his exam was very, very fair. Especcially in comparison to some of the ones Jane Horgan used to give, ouch.

cognos

Cina wrote:

Heh, I thought Adel was a woeful lecturer, mainly because I couldn't understand him. But his exam was very, very fair. Especcially in comparison to some of the ones Jane Horgan used to give, ouch.

Yeah I wasn't expecting it to be but it was a fair exam - I still did very very bad tho. Ah well at least they're over now and the rest of em were handy enough. Results are out the 15th I think ... should be interesting.

Suaimhneach

Over now!

Results are the 15th of Feb!

rugbug86

Ah Jes why would ya say that!!

Hmmm... results the day after the RAG ball.

Results the day of the bungee.

Results the day of the rag trip.

Maybe I won't get my results!!

cooker3

rugbug86 wrote:

Results the day of the bungee.

If I was doing bungee and got my results, I probably ask them to cut the rope.

rugbug86

cooker3 wrote:

If I was doing bungee and got my results, I probably ask them to cut the rope.

:P its never that bad!










I hope!