Past Papers Down

Seifer

Access to past exam papers is down. It's giving some weird database error. UCD ftw...

Down since yesterday..

I went to bed hoping they'd be up at some stage this weekend..

looking more doubtfull by the second

delta_bravo

Somehow, im not surprised. Theyre all gone of sis anyway. Ill check the exams and logistics section. Various pages off the ucd webiste have vanished recently, such as the guide to gpa and degrees

Raphael

Nooooooooooooo!

Not good, not good, not good!

MuddyDog

was wondering where they had all gone alright. Maybe them IT people deleted them when they were doing the blackboard upgrade.....wouldn't at all be surprised.

Vorsprung

That's really, really ****....:(

princess-sprkle

not in the least bit suprised. it is a bit ridic though.

Stepherunie

For the first time ever i can see a good point to my modules all being new with no sample papers.......

I doubt the loss has anything to do with the BB upgrade - they were working fine since.

The exam timetable when you log into sis web is also down.

Red Alert

Exam papers are hosted on ucd's www server, the links page is off the SIS. But I can't find the folder they're all in.

seraphimvc

if anyone find a way to get pass paper/when the system is recovered,do tell and maybe post the link ,would be greatly appreciated:)

drdre

Guys you should have downloaded them.You had a whole semester.
I know they should not have been taken off at this stage , but thats life

delta_bravo

drdre wrote: »

Guys you should have downloaded them.You had a whole semester.
I know they should not have been taken off at this stage , but thats life

Yeh i did that. Learnt my lesson last year. Lecturer took them all down by october because he was going to basically replicate the old ones in my exam, luckily i got a copy

Red Alert

I don't think a lecturer can remove past papers but I could be wrong.

drdre

delta_bravo wrote: »

Yeh i did that. Learnt my lesson last year. Lecturer took them all down by october because he was going to basically replicate the old ones in my exam, luckily i got a copy

There should be a thread where someone whats a past paper just put up what you want and someone might be able to send it through email.Thats the only solution at the moment

conor2007

backups are great

reinstalled tiger and luckily enuf copied all the stuff in my college folder over to my pc :rolleyes:

delta_bravo

I have a 'Renaissance to Enlightenment' paper from last year if anyone needs it

Seifer

drdre wrote:

Guys you should have downloaded them.You had a whole semester.

And I suppose we should download all our notes from Blackboard and lecturers' websites too. But what if my pc fails? Better print everything out so...

A reasonable level of competence isn't too much to expect from the UCD IT services.

ferdi

Seifer wrote: »

And I suppose we should download all our notes from Blackboard and lecturers' websites too. But what if my pc fails? Better print everything out so...

A reasonable level of competence isn't too much to expect from the UCD IT services.

bang on...this is such a pain in the ass, i'd really love another look at those history papers:(

delta_bravo

Seifer wrote: »

A reasonable level of competence isn't too much to expect from the UCD IT services.

Yes it is. This may not be their fault tho, would the exams and logistics dept have something to do with the uploading of past papers?

woop

oh jesus god no!

Stepherunie

More than likely - like BB is quite obviously IT domain, the exams paper looks far more like an Exams office system

imp

Seifer wrote: »

And I suppose we should download all our notes from Blackboard and lecturers' websites too. But what if my pc fails? Better print everything out so...

A reasonable level of competence isn't too much to expect from the UCD IT services.

So... we shouldn't back up our stuff because there's a possibility of our backup failing?

lolli

Ah surely they'll be back up tomorrow

Stepherunie

I'm sure they will, out of curiosity did anyone think to email either past.papers@ucd.ie or assessment@ucd.ie to point out that the links were down?

drdre

Stepherunie wrote: »

I'm sure, out of curiosity did anyone think to email either past.papers@ucd.ie or assessment@ucd.ie to point out that the links were down?

They never bloody reply

Cannibal Ox

Stepherunie wrote: »

I'm sure they will, out of curiosity did anyone think to email either past.papers@ucd.ie or assessment@ucd.ie to point out that the links were down?

Yeah, haven't heard from them yet.

Chakar

I have the past exam papers for Sociological Theory III, Sociology of Environment and Governance in Society. If anybody wants me to email them, just send me a private message.

Seifer

imp wrote:

So... we shouldn't back up our stuff because there's a possibility of our backup failing?

There is a point where you have to break the endless chain.

Stepherunie wrote:

I'm sure they will, out of curiosity did anyone think to email either past.papers@ucd.ie or assessment@ucd.ie to point out that the links were down?

Tried ringing, no answer, left a message. To be fair to UCD, they do try and ensure that crap like this happens when there's no one around to help, ie. the weekend.

Cannibal Ox

Red Alert wrote:

Exam papers are hosted on ucd's www server, the links page is off the SIS. But I can't find the folder they're all in.

I think I stumbled onto the directory with all of the past papers by accident. I'm not exactly sure whether I should even be in there in the first place, so...I dunno if I should be posting the link. Mods?

drdre

Cannibal Ox wrote: »

I think I stumbled onto the directory with all of the past papers by accident. I'm not exactly sure whether I should even be in there in the first place, so...I dunno if I should be posting the link. Mods?

Ah you can post the link.Its fine

irish.rugby.fan

Please do ....

Joneser

Lucky for me i THINK my first exam is on tuesday, but im really starting to get paranoid about whether i have one tomorow since the timetables have gone down, im not sure what to do, maybe just get up really early and see if they are working?

Fuzzy_Dunlop

Joneser wrote: »

Lucky for me i THINK my first exam is on tuesday, but im really starting to get paranoid about whether i have one tomorow since the timetables have gone down, im not sure what to do, maybe just get up really early and see if they are working?

You can still access your timetable here

NicsM

I was perfectly calm until I discovered this...

Raphael

Cannibal Ox wrote: »

I think I stumbled onto the directory with all of the past papers by accident. I'm not exactly sure whether I should even be in there in the first place, so...I dunno if I should be posting the link. Mods?

Unless there's something in there that wasn't previously available, then I don't see why not.

drdre

Ninaluna wrote: »

I was perfectly calm until I discovered this...

Dont worry that always happens.

princess-sprkle

Cannibal Ox wrote: »

I think I stumbled onto the directory with all of the past papers by accident. I'm not exactly sure whether I should even be in there in the first place, so...I dunno if I should be posting the link. Mods?

poooooooooost it!! gwan.

Cannibal Ox

Link

The papers are organised by year, but other then that there doesn't seem to be any pattern to how they put them up so...you may have to look through a thousand odd papers from each year to find yours...

Raphael

Wow that's a mess. Nice find anyway, if I get truely desperate I might end up actually searching for mine... ^^;

drdre

Cannibal Ox wrote: »

Link

The papers are organised by year, but other then that there doesn't seem to be any pattern to how they put them up so...you may have to look through a thousand odd papers from each year to find yours...

Great find, but it will take ages trying to find them through those numbered files , Good luck to whoever needs them

Cannibal Ox

Yeah...bit of a mess...if you find your course, all the papers are grouped together as far as I can see. I found the politics papers for 2006 by luck, they begin at 200646768 if anyone needs them.

princess-sprkle

Cannibal Ox wrote: »

Yeah...bit of a mess...if you find your course, all the papers are grouped together as far as I can see. I found the politics papers for 2006 by luck, they begin at 200646768 if anyone needs them.

i could kiss you! i was looking for politics.

drdre

princess-sprkle wrote: »

i could kiss you! i was looking for politics.

, You are so happy,Im not as i hate exams.

Cannibal Ox

More stuff....Sociology for 2005 begins at 200542036 and ends at 200542047. Politics begins at 200542048 and ends at 200542064. If anyones looking for Integration Fragmentation its 200542055, and the International Justice papers are 200542052 and 200542061.

EDIT: 2004, Politics starts at 200439343 and ends at 200439358. History and English are before and after it if anyones looking for them. Also, I really didn't need to see the gynecology exam paper.

drdre

Cannibal Ox wrote: »

More stuff....Sociology for 2005 begins at 200542036 and ends at 200542047. Politics begins at 200542048 and ends at 200542064. If anyones looking for Integration Fragmentation its 200542055, and the International Justice papers are 200542052 and 200542061.

It looks like you are doing alot of study, What course are you doing?

delta_bravo

I would say that theres a slim chance this years papers may even be on that storage thing.

Chakar

The papers for the individual subjects in Arts and for courses are grouped together. So if you have a past exam paper used last year, you can use the number written on the paper or as the name of the paper (e.g. 20064567) to check for other exam papers for later years.

That will narrow down the search presumably you have the papers and thus the number.

Cannibal Ox

delta wrote:

I would say that theres a slim chance this years papers may even be on that storage thing.

They're not, the last time it was modified was 9th October 2007 and that was the 2006 papers. I don't think they upload them until well after the exams are finished.

drdre wrote:

It looks like you are doing alot of study, What course are you doing?

Politics and Sociology.

Politics for 2003 start at 200336105 and end at 200336124. I'm done....let us never speak of this again.

Joneser

can anyone tell me when the matrices and vectors exam is on? (MATH10090), for some reason i can find it on the list

seraphimvc

for all sake,somebody just hack into the system and take our exams paper to us.PM me if someone is doing the favor,you can have my student number...

erg....sorry..exam's pressure....:o

drdre

seraphimvc wrote: »

for all sake,somebody just hack into the system and take our exams paper to us.PM me if someone is doing the favor,you can have my student number...

erg....sorry..exam's pressure....:o

I will pay 100 euro per paper.:)
Anyone want to do that