"So, omg how did your exam go?" (Exam Autopsy Thread)

Umaro

Ireland in Europe today, went pretty well. The MCQ was alright and the fact that the lecturer had given us the essay questions a few weeks in advance meant I was pretty well prepared.

How is everyone else getting on with their exams?

stereoroid

Physics for Engineers 1: it was weird, in the sense that I thought part of it was very easy (the Physics), and part of it very difficult (the Calculus). I'm not going to say any more about this course unless asked privately.

redcar

Cross Cultural Management, was a fair paper.

muboop1

stereoroid wrote: »

Physics for Engineers 1: it was weird, in the sense that I thought part of it was very easy (the Physics), and part of it very difficult (the Calculus). I'm not going to say any more about this course unless asked privately.

i done this lasy year... found totaly pointless... just a repeat of the leaving cert...

for those who done physics at honour level an easy pass just based on experiments alone!

for those who didnt do this for the leaving... well its possibly the worst constructed crash course iv ever encountered...

i got an A!!!!

tywy

muboop1 wrote: »

i done this lasy year... found totaly pointless... just a repeat of the leaving cert...

for those who done physics at honour level an easy pass just based on experiments alone!

for those who didnt do this for the leaving... well its possibly the worst constructed crash course iv ever encountered...

i got an A!!!!

Are you taking Physics in 2nd year?

As non modularised Elecs in 2nd year we had to do it, if you think 1st physics is bad, 2nd year physics is HELL!

MatthewVII

4th Medicine MedSurg MCQs:

Medicine was a load of pants, nephrology questions, probably set by the Mater, were disgusting and it was the worst paper in recent times

Surgery was awesome. Got out after 15 minutes, probably set by our friends in Vincent's. Best paper ever, barely any statistical knowledge needed.

Stepherunie

Oncology.

Ugh - two questions on the shortest lecture of the course - I don't have the eye for ultrasound so asking me to describe what I see is like asking someone to describe what they see in banks of white snow.

Other than that not bad. Could have been a lot better, could have been a lot worse.

Raphael

Analytical and Quantum Mechanics - The one I was most worried about, thought it went well. Only did 3 questions and was supposed to do 4, but I did those 3 pretty well, since they were all stuff I'd studied.

And since the lecturer is awesome and corrected all 23 scripts and put them online tonight, I know I got a C for the exam, C- for the module. Rock on!

Riamfada

Archaeology of Identity

predictable and easy ! well it was to do, getting the grades in are a differnt story !

princess-sprkle

Irish politics and policy.

probably the best way to sum that one up!

abelard

Eased into it today with Japanese (electives are fun!!!11!). Grand paper, few tricky bits.

Land law at midday tomorrow. In for the long haul tonight.

/dies

delta_bravo

Russian went quite well this evening

Blut

princess-sprkle wrote: »

Irish politics and policy.

probably the best way to sum that one up!

Whatd you think was bad about the paper? I think everyone was banking on a health care question so it wasnt ideal, the Irish economy question was fairly general and okish for a backup tho.

Waltons

Had a practical today for object-oriented programming. It was a bit strange having an exam in the computer labs but it wasn't too bad at all; hopefully anyway

sitstill

Educational Psychology and the Adolescent Learner (EDUC40010) went quite well all around yesterday!

princess-sprkle

Blut wrote: »

Whatd you think was bad about the paper? I think everyone was banking on a health care question so it wasnt ideal, the Irish economy question was fairly general and okish for a backup tho.

banking on the health question! the other ones were grand, i just wasn't as prepared for them really.

redcar

Marketing... each question would cover a seperate topic she said... lies... all lies, it was like flippin pic and mix.

remus808

Waltons wrote: »

Had a practical today for object-oriented programming. It was a bit strange having an exam in the computer labs but it wasn't too bad at all; hopefully anyway

Makes so much more sense though!! I'm in 1st CS and all our exams are hand-written.. totally pointless coding on paper..

Scraggs

Absolutely bottled my exam there. So raging with myself. :mad::(:mad::(

Stepherunie

Advanced Radiographic Practice Presentation.

Not too bad all things considered - did a topic that no one else has done, most have done the same topic so ended up with 6 questions at the end of the presentation unlike everyone else's 2.

Think I rocked it though overall.

Didn't help that the guy in before me had mentioned me as a shining beacon of advanced practice though!

the evil lime

Umaro wrote: »

Ireland in Europe today, went pretty well. The MCQ was alright and the fact that the lecturer had given us the essay questions a few weeks in advance meant I was pretty well prepared.

I thought, given how much it was worth, that the exam was nearly too easy. We'll see what I'm saying when the results come out though.

*Hank Scorpio*

the evil lime wrote: »

I thought, given how much it was worth, that the exam was nearly too easy. We'll see what I'm saying when the results come out though.

that was the geography course just entitled 'Europe' yeah?

i did that as an elective, i hardly ever went to lectures tbh, i did the question on McNeill's book New Europe, the actual question was slightly changed from the one he gave us in preparation, i was writing all the way to the end of that exam, had about 6/7 pages, i overheard people coming out saying they wrote 12 pages so i was a bit anxious when i heard that. I didn't study as much as i wanted for it due to other exams but i'm hoping i did ok.

the Mcq's weren't bad, alot i knew outright, others i was able to narrow it down to 2 possible answers or 3

the evil lime

*Hank Scorpio* wrote: »

that was the geography course just entitled 'Europe' yeah?

No, it was the Commerce course "Ireland in Europe"

Waltons

karmabass wrote: »

Makes so much more sense though!! I'm in 1st CS and all our exams are hand-written.. totally pointless coding on paper..

Agreed. I don't mind answering questions about aspects of programming, or trying to work out what a program would do though, as it's a good skill to have an idea what a program does just by looking at it. Writing pages of loops is not fun though.
Having said that, our OOP marks are given for code that works and it was a bit nervewracking when I built my code, broke the past hour's work and had to spend 20 mins trying to find out what the hell was wrong

kf1920

redcar wrote: »

Marketing... each question would cover a seperate topic she said... lies... all lies, it was like flippin pic and mix.

I thought they were separated? maybe i just missed a bit, i was just glad to get out!

armada104

kf1920 wrote: »

I thought they were separated? maybe i just missed a bit, i was just glad to get out!

They were for the most part but some of them were a bit vague and open to interpretation. Question 1 was particularly nonspecific.

MatthewVII

Clinical Medicine Long cases:

Mater: Most students seem to be happy. day 1 brought some awkward colon cancer questions, with transverse colectomies being the order of the day. Day 2 brought VERY nice cases; gallstones, pancreatitis, cellulitis and stroke were thick on the ground

Vincent's: Day 1 seemed okay with a few breast and bowel cancers. Day 2 was a bit trickier, although most people seem to have gotten on okay.

Colmcille's, Loughlinstown: Overall people have seemed happy. Lots of gastrointestinal medicine to keep most people on their toes.

With day 3 left to go, it seems like most people are getting on well. No real horror stories as there were last year.

simonrooneyzaga

theres no point disecting an exam afterwards! you'll just drive yourselves batty!

Paul Tergat

just our of first exam, nailed aspects of financial theory

NEXT

MizzLolly

Irish Painting - eeeeeeeekkkkk!!!! None of the predicted topics came up .... NONE of them!!!


Didn't find it ALL that bad though, which worries me coz everybody else came out looking exasperated!!!!! :eek:

muboop1

tywy wrote: »

Are you taking Physics in 2nd year?

As non modularised Elecs in 2nd year we had to do it, if you think 1st physics is bad, 2nd year physics is HELL!

im in chem eng, dont have it this semester, although i might in second semester! but this year has seriously stepped up in hardness...

thermodynamics... what the hell is this stuff???

drdre

Scraggs wrote: »

Absolutely bottled my exam there. So raging with myself. :mad::(:mad::(

What exam was it, I think i have 99% failed economics. ((((((

ShaneU

sociology of environment was easy today, theory tomorrow is a completely different bitch though.

redcar

Intro to Psychology... meh.

FledNanders

drdre wrote: »

What exam was it, I think i have 99% failed economics. ((((((

What economics exam were you doing?

drdre

FledNanders wrote: »

What economics exam were you doing?

I was doing 2nd year commerceIntermediate Microeconomics

redcar

drdre wrote: »

I was doing 2nd year commerceIntermediate Microeconomics

Question: How bad is that? Cause I am doing that next semester and I am not liking the sounds of it at all.

drdre

redcar wrote: »

Question: How bad is that? Cause I am doing that next semester and I am not liking the sounds of it at all.

Its really easy if you study.I just didnt put my head down and study it.:(

remus808

Got lucky with Intro to Psy today.. the only topic i'd studied came up, and i remembered more than I thought I would so ended up with a pretty sweet essay.. and then the MCQ's were pretty common sense at times..

nice start to the proceedings for me

Pythia

redcar wrote: »

Question: How bad is that? Cause I am doing that next semester and I am not liking the sounds of it at all.

I did it two years ago. It was fine, most people from my class did very well indeed.

Stabshauptmann

redcar wrote: »

Question: How bad is that? Cause I am doing that next semester and I am not liking the sounds of it at all.

I cant remember anything about the subject so to refresh my mind I flicked through my notes (have all the subjects I studies on my computer). Its the only subject in 3 years I have no notes for, only the course outline. I honestly cant remember what the lecturer looked like or anything. Got a 2.1 though; so I imagine it couldnt have been that bad

redcar

Interesting. Cheers guys!


Corporate Finance today... Jimmy thank God for you giving the paper.

drdre

redcar wrote: »

Interesting. Cheers guys!


Corporate Finance today... Jimmy thank God for you giving the paper.

He always gave the paper, But still so many people failed it the 1st time

The paper will be exactly what he tells you.
Good luck, I have Financial accounting today

Garret

pretty sure i totalled corp finance

mac123

finance was simple, great subject!

Stepherunie

Trauma Imaging. Much nicer than the sample paper,

Felt I did ok to good in it. One of the questions was kind of unclear in that it divided into two sections but both were kinda asking you the same thing.

Main problem was the 4 page answer booklets - I write every second line due to very poor writing skills when in a rush so I ended up with about 10 booklets at the end.

Cannibal Ox

Achieving the Millennium Development Goals, straightforward enough. He told us what was coming up, and we'd already done an essay on each of the topics. I wish they all did that.

x keo21

redcar wrote: »

Question: How bad is that? Cause I am doing that next semester and I am not liking the sounds of it at all.

im in 3rd arts and i done it got a B plus. the mcq continous assesment is the worst mcq youll ever do but the end of exam is actually easy obviously this person never looked at the previous exam papers, own fault if you ask me.

drdre

Financial Accounting went ok today, A few of the Q1's came up in past papers.Question 2 was just the same as mentioned in lecture, nothing too difficult but the 2nd notes got me, the one with the invetory.

Frank Grimes

Well 2nd year sociological theory didn't turn out to be the nightmare it could have been! Thanks has to go to whoever put Gramsci on the compulsory section!

*Hank Scorpio*

psychology 1st year elective today, intro to child development, handy enough, same format as the mid sem exam, 10 mcqs, 10 short questions, one essay, we were given the topics before hand to study. 1 or 2 of the mcqs were a tad tricky i thought, in that alot of the possible answers i would have said were correct for the actual phrasing of the question

Honestly if you want an easy elective next year(after summer i mean, its only on this sem 1) pick this as quick as you can.