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cooker3

So how did everyone do.

I passed 5 but failed one, funnily enough it was 1 I didn't expect to fail so that is quite annoying being 4th year and all.
How about the rest of yous?

red_osama

2.1
not as high as i had expected in some of them, but happy to have passed them all

Cina

54 average, one short of a 2.1 but sure hey, still passed them all. 41 in Probability aswell heh, how lucky!

tq

what does "X - Failed an Examination Element" mean?

Call Me Jimmy

two thirds of a lousy percentage short of a 2.1, god damn. Passed them all though (I also got 41 in probability) and somehow I passed langauges and computability.

They must have given me marks for writing so little yet making more mistakes than most people.

Stargal

How do you determine your overall grade? Is it based on the mean (i.e. the average of all your results) or the mode (i.e. if you got 3 2:1s and 2 firsts you'd automatically get a 2:1)?

Sorry if this sounds kinda silly. I'm doing a Masters and it didn't show my overall grade on the results page, so I have to figure it out myself

cooker3

tq wrote:

what does "X - Failed an Examination Element" mean?

You failed exam but passed continous assesment I think. So you will be repeating exam unless you get compensated

red_osama

tq wrote:

what does "X - Failed an Examination Element" mean?

I thought it meant that you failed continuous assessment but passed the exam

Eccentric

stargal wrote:

How do you determine your overall grade? Is it based on the mean (i.e. the average of all your results) or the mode (i.e. if you got 3 2:1s and 2 firsts you'd automatically get a 2:1)?

Sorry if this sounds kinda silly. I'm doing a Masters and it didn't show my overall grade on the results page, so I have to figure it out myself

You get the average of your results, then:
# 1.1 not less than 70%
# 2.1 not less than 63%
# 2.2 not less than 55%
# 3.0 not less than 50%
# Pass not less than 40%

red_osama wrote:

I thought it meant that you failed continuous assessment but passed the exam

No, it means you failed the exam but passed the CA.

"W" - means you passed the exam but failed the CA.

cognos

I was 100% sure that I failed probability so I'm thrilled that I managed to get 61 in it, everything else was between 80 and 90 so im happy enough.

Kenny_D

Aww my average was 69.66 . No repeats this year thank god. Next exams are xmas finals.....

Crucifix

A first! Found yesterday though, just had it confirmed today.

Suaimhneach

Passed them all, for the first time ever.
Madness.

GavMan

Bit pissed off really. Failed Project and Process Management(CA305). Whats bugging me is that i was joint top of the class in the CA results but somehow contrived to fail the exam so badly. I just don't understand that.

:|

Passed my one exam

red_osama

i'm now convinced that computer applications is a joke of a course. just studied the day before most of my exams and came out with an avarage of 65 with all my results in the 60's.

Zen 2nd

red_osama wrote:

i'm now convinced that computer applications is a joke of a course. just studied the day before most of my exams and came out with an avarage of 65 with all my results in the 60's.

So I must assume from that post that the day before you studied you were completely dumb to computer applications?

Also why are you complaining if you find the course easy?

By the by I passed all my exams too :cool:

rugbug86

i failed one (35%) but got over 60 in all the others so i can compensate, provided i dont fail labs this semester!

phreak

only had the 1. got 80%

StickyMcGinty

scraped a 40% in OS, but came out with a 67% average.

and to yer man who thinks computer applications is a joke of a course, come back to me and show me your 1.1 is a few years time!

anybody else feel they've dumbed down CASE in the last few years? i got 84% in algorithms and complexity and last year its was a tough subject to get 40% in!

gizmo

Well I wouldn't call it dumbed down, especially for our year. But yes, A&C was radically overhauled this year and those that failed it horribly last year all aced it this year.

...despite the fact they did sfa work for it.

pushpop

Well

To fail one in fourth year is unfortunate. There was a mix up with the cryptography CA this semester so everybody will be getting updated results in semester 2. I really think that this whole "fail one and get a pass degree" strategy is ludicrous, as I know people who studied for weeks before the exams and failed one, and then people who crammed a day before the exam and passed, so the mediocre student who cant be arsed studying gets rewarded instead of the diligent one. I only hope this suggested revamp of the marking scheme for final year gets the go ahead. I understand that DCU are trying to maintain standards blah blah blah, but if it is consistently ranking around the middle in league tables and losing out funding to bigger universities, then I think they may need to look elsewhere to help improve things.

cooker3

I'd be interested in knowing the IS/SE fail rates.
I don't know an SE who passed everything, 3 out of 6 IS people passed that I know of, actually they being all the IS females interestingly enough.

GavMan

cooker3 wrote:

I'd be interested in knowing the IS/SE fail rates.
I don't know an SE who passed everything, 3 out of 6 IS people passed that I know of, actually they being all the IS females interestingly enough.

Well in IS3/SE3 there seems to be very few fails that i've heard of. I actually only know of three people that failed at least one subject. Myself being one, and i'm seriously unimpressed too

cooker3

GavMan wrote:

Well in IS3/SE3 there seems to be very few fails that i've heard of. I actually only know of three people that failed at least one subject. Myself being one, and i'm seriously unimpressed too

It's the ying yang affect, we get the hard exams so to balance it out you get the easy exams the next year

StickyMcGinty

cooker3 wrote:

It's the ying yang affect, we get the hard exams so to balance it out you get the easy exams the next year

i'll take that deal!

ah any past papers i look at from previous years in CASE look much harder than the ones we're given..

is it still true that you need to get an honours in at least 2 out of the 4 years to get an honours degree?

GavMan

VinnyL wrote:

i'll take that deal!

ah any past papers i look at from previous years in CASE look much harder than the ones we're given..

is it still true that you need to get an honours in at least 2 out of the 4 years to get an honours degree?

Nah, whatever you get in your finals is you're degree. none of that aggregation over a couple of years bollox

cooker3

GavMan wrote:

Nah, whatever you get in your finals is you're degree. none of that aggregation over a couple of years bollox

yep exactly which is a problem when you do graphics

Will

here cooker3, what are the best subjects to take next year? anything to stay well clear of?

cooker3

I think there was a thread about this a few weeks back
But to sum up avoid graphics with your life.