Schols Schols Schols, information and venting thread.

devinejay

Firstly good luck to all you guys, it must be tough but it'll be worth it!

Also, how much do you think your first year laid a foundation for Schols? Is it possible to make a decent comeback after a sloppy start?

JC 2K3

That's gonna depend entirely on your course.

I do Computer Science and putting in a decent effort in first year (not the best I could have done, but good enough to get a first) has definitely helped me this year, in terms of everything, not just schols.

Brian

Our Schols are going to be more based on 1st year than the current system. Damn.

PurpleFistMixer

Baza210 wrote: »

Our Schols are going to be more based on 1st year than the current system. Damn.

1st year material? Well... that's... probably good, since I'm guessing 1st year stuff is easier than 2nd year stuff.

Brian

Not easier to study. From what I've experienced so far, 1st year stuff is boring, general, and a lot of the time irrelevant.

I'd much rather be examined on 2nd year stuff.. real Engineering. [Chemistry, will you please die?]

Baza210

Baza210 wrote: »

real Engineering.

Oh yeah, I remember that.

Brian

Hehe, anything not to do with rotary engines isn't Engineering to me :P

tolosenc

Good luck all who are in tomorrow! Or any other day!

*prays for questions on Discourse Representation Theory and the English Passive Construction*

mathew

Baza210 wrote: »

Hehe, anything not to do with rotary engines isn't Engineering to me :P

Schols is gonna be very different for you.. Especially since there'll be no consolation of exemptions..

They're gonna have to examine 1st year stuff more than they are now.. A fair bit of first year material lays foundations for 2nd year too tho..

If you do well in first year you might as well put in the effort for 12weeks and go for it. 12weeks isn't that long, and the benefits are well worth it :-)

devinejay

Looks like college is gonna be pretty dull for the next six months or so, first trying to salvage first year, then building on that crumbly foundation to take a stab at schols! I suppose it is a better deal than having to master all that extra second year stuff too.

Is it going to be end of semester 1 exams - Christmas day - schols exams? That would suck.

Anyone have their heads explode with scholsyness today?

mathew

Schols next year will be the last week/two weeks of the christmas holidays.. So the beginning of January.

devinejay

Fair enough. Christmas holidays were always overrated!:rolleyes:

tolosenc

Had epiphany during exam. Awesome.

Tried to argue a rather controversial(well, as linguistics goes...) topic in another question, we'll see how that goes. Overall, better than expected, though I ran out of time at the end today...

mathew

at least you have it all started..
930 tomorrow morning for me.. Hope it goes as well...

claire h

Hang on in there folks!

timmywex

mathew wrote: »

Schols next year will be the last week/two weeks of the christmas holidays.. So the beginning of January.

Thats one long summer holiday if you get exemptions!

PurpleFistMixer

timmywex wrote: »

Thats one long summer holiday if you get exemptions!

Except exemptions don't exist any more. ;p

The Walsho

Never really thought about schols before. Entered my head recently so have subscribed to this thread.

Good luck to everyone doing them, and well done for deciding to them in the first place. Let us know how they're going for you

mathew

mathew wrote: »

Schols next year will be the last week/two weeks of the christmas holidays.. So the beginning of January.

Will all years still be able to do them?

tolosenc

PurpleFistMixer wrote: »

Except exemptions don't exist any more. ;p

What about new scholars, though?

Podge_irl

obl wrote: »

What about new scholars, though?

They'll have to take summer exams just like everyone else. Personally I have no problem with it - schol exams are supposed to be something different from end of year exams and are supposed to be a tough test. I dislike the idea of people taking them just with a view to getting exemptions for a longer summer holiday.

JC 2K3

Emm.. but you said yourself, they're a tough test... It's not easy to get exemptions..

mathew

Thats one down... only 4 to go
Heres hoping the rest are as nice as todays was..

Podge_irl

JC 2K3 wrote: »

Emm.. but you said yourself, they're a tough test... It's not easy to get exemptions..

No its not. I dislike the practice of people taking them who are only aiming for exemptions though - that's not really the point of them.

JC 2K3

What is the point of them then?

You think that exemptions should be a consolation prize for those who believe they can get over 70%, but don't achieve that? You don't think someone who doesn't feel they can get 70%, but might be able to get 60% should take them?

Jim_Are_Great

To people who have taken an exam: what's the deal with signing the big tome? Why would they possibly need to know my father's name?

mathew

Apparently its tradition..

Does anyone know what all the fields mean? didnt understand the latin so I just kinda coppied the one above me. Was the second column middle name?

Jim_Are_Great

Hah, no - It goes full name, father's name, place of birth, secondary school.
... for some reason.

Podge_irl

JC 2K3 wrote: »

You don't think someone who doesn't feel they can get 70%, but might be able to get 60% should take them?

Nope. They're scholarship exams. They're not supposed to be there just to give people the opportunity to take their exams early and have a nice summer break. Scholarship is a very old tradition in Trinity (the oldest really), part of the ethos of them is that it is supposed to be people putting themselves forward for application to scholarship. There isn't meant to be a consolation prize.

mathew

Jim_Are_Great wrote: »

Hah, no - It goes full name, father's name, place of birth, secondary school.
... for some reason.

oh... woops... Ah well...