The 'how did your exam go?' thread?

Tom65

As the thread title said.


I just had the International Politics II exam. It was grand. One of those exams that doesn't go better or worse than expect. Just breezed by.


And all of yours?


EDIT: Mods, there's an extra question mark at the end of the thread title and it's annoying the hell out of me, can you one of you edit it...please?

Stepherunie

Pathology: Minging - well completely blanked one question. EMQs weren't too bad though, but meh - could have been better.

lemon_sherbert

Law of Tort - not too bad,fair choice of questions, but I think I probably rushed it a bit, oh well, one down

Waltons

Operating Systems - Pretty ok, only worth 30% anyway.
Financial Economics - Happy with this; fluffed one or two parts, but overall very pleased

redcar

Intermediate Microeconomics - As good as economics can go really.

Frank Grimes

Tom65 wrote: »

I just had the International Politics II exam. It was grand. One of those exams that doesn't go better or worse than expect. Just breezed by.

Yeah, had that one too. Besides getting one of the MCQs wrong that I shouldn't have, it all went fine; great way to kick off the exams! It's the one tomorrow I worried about!

niamherz88

Law of tort!! Went ok I thought!! Propably could have done a bit more study but all things considered think i passed!!! Really worried bout contract tho!!

simonrooneyzaga

dont you just hate disecting exams once their finished!!!

Paul Tergat

Strategy today was fine, nice paper...


1 down 6 to go!

Dave!

Data Structures & Algorithms II - was okay... Was almost exactly like the sample paper, so if I had spent more time studying I could have gotten an A! But alas, I'm a lazy bugger. Worked out that I should get at least 55% from it... plus I've done a load of course work and did okay on it. Should be okay for it.

Now, to study for my next 3 exams................. GRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGG

stereoroid

Yesterday was the drawing exam for the Graphics & Communication in Design course, which was very good, I thought. I messed up a little on part the opening question, trying to figure out what something looks like from incomplete drawings, but did OK on the following two questions. I'll get penalised for neatness, though: it's tough trying to do drawings accurate to 0.1mm in a dimly-lit corridor in the science hub. I had shadows from the instruments obscuring lines I had drawn.

Tomorrow: Maths, and there's way too much new stuff to remember. I should get back to that now.

spudington16

Introduction to Social Psychology - nice!

Frank Grimes

Analysing Politics done and dusted now thankfully. I can actually study stuff I'm half way interested in from here on in!

Tom65

Frank Grimes wrote: »

Analysing Politics done and dusted now thankfully. I can actually study stuff I'm half way interested in from here on in!

I have no idea how that went. It was a different kind of exam, so I don't know if I wrote what they were looking for.

Donald-Duck

DaveMcG wrote: »

Data Structures & Algorithms II - was okay... Was almost exactly like the sample paper, so if I had spent more time studying I could have gotten an A! But alas, I'm a lazy bugger. Worked out that I should get at least 55% from it... plus I've done a load of course work and did okay on it. Should be okay for it.

Now, to study for my next 3 exams................. GRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGG

I spent about 6 pages doing the removal in a list because of the way he wanted us to lay it out:mad:

dajaffa

Clinical exercise practical - random questions that came out of left field a bit but I managed ok (I hope!). I was really annoyed thou because the other class got a dream of a paper that I would've aced!

Neurology practical - again questions not quite what we were expecting but both classes got similar papers and I'm safe enough for passing anyway.

lemon_sherbert

Financial Accounting 1, not so bad, but it didn't balance:( two down, four to go

princess-sprkle

I'm pulling an all nighter for post communist Europe tomorrow, fingers crossed its an easy paper. I may cry if its not

Breezer

Disability for Healthcare - Some evil MCQs on topics we hadn't even covered. Nice short answer questions. Hoping for a B overall.

German ab initio - I couldn't translate some of the questions but I doubt they were trying to trick us with a beginner language so I just did what seemed to make sense. So based on that, really nice, hoping for an A to drag up my GPA!

Now, there's there easy ones done... Much harder to come

Bluefox21

lemon_sherbert wrote: »

Financial Accounting 1, not so bad, but it didn't balance:( two down, four to go

how far were you out in question three? Can't see where I went wrong was 70 out :pac:

aequinoctium

Analysis yesterday. easy.

lemon_sherbert

Management Principles; :mad: horrible horrible exam... there goes my GPA

Bluefox21 wrote: »

how far were you out in question three? Can't see where I went wrong was 70 out :pac:

I was 3 out!, such an odd error, though to be honest, I didn't do accounting for leaving, so there are many places I could be making mistakes

Zamboni

Spanish Ab Initio yesteday evening.
Legend.

Hasta Luego

stereoroid

Maths for Engineers III: nothing wrong with the exam, if you have a photographic memory for advanced calculus and a love for Maths.

I have neither, I think Maths is a means to an end, not an end in itself. There was enough new Maths in one 12-week course to last us a whole year, and I had to cram Maths that I knew a couple of months ago, but which had been sandblasted from my brain by a deluge of new Maths.

So, next semester we'll be getting snarky comments from the lecturer about how much we've forgotten. I think I passed, though. :rolleyes:

Donald-Duck

Operating Systems(20060) was very straight forward.

Willum101

intermediate macroeconomics. kinda nasty but i expected that. hopefully i waffled enough to get through haha

Pride Fighter

I had a Roman Sculpture exam but I dont like dissecting past performances, I look forward to the future.

*Hank Scorpio*

1st one today, Applied Psychology 1st year, doing it as an elective.

I took this one for granted really, I knew I would just go over it the whole day before but spent most of the day WRITING the notes and not enough time learning them, I got up early today to go over them but I was so knackered nothing would stay in me head :P

Only 1 hour exam, MCQ's, short questions, fill in blanks. Was ok-ish, hoping I'll scrape a B as I really need it for my GPA

Stepherunie

Competanc y Test; Think of your worst day where everything goes wrong, multiply it 100. That's what happened.

Somehow passed it - god knows how.

gubbie

stereoroid wrote: »

Maths for Engineers III: nothing wrong with the exam, if you have a photographic memory for advanced calculus and a love for Maths.

I have neither, I think Maths is a means to an end, not an end in itself. There was enough new Maths in one 12-week course to last us a whole year, and I had to cram Maths that I knew a couple of months ago, but which had been sandblasted from my brain by a deluge of new Maths.

So, next semester we'll be getting snarky comments from the lecturer about how much we've forgotten. I think I passed, though. :rolleyes:

Well good news. Unless its integration or differentiation, you'll probably never use most of it again

tribulus

Renal Pharmacology today. Very handy although I managed to f*ck up a question kind of by mixing up my references.

Advanced Neurochemistry on Saturday morning - what must be about 30 lectures worth of material crammed into 12.

Then at 6-8 the same day, Emerging Therapies - where half the course is pure speculation because no on has bothered to get funding to study it, great fun altogether.

Edit: I forgot how spectacular some of the women in UCD are, they all come out for exams lol.

Bowden

tribulus wrote: »

Edit: I forgot how spectacular some of the women in UCD are, they all come out for exams lol.

True that

stereoroid

gubbie wrote: »

Well good news. Unless its integration or differentiation, you'll probably never use most of it again

Integration was a big part of it, and Differential Equations (1st & second order) too, but it was too much for 12 weeks of lectures. I know these are important topics in Engineering, and so I want to be good at them. I just found there was too much to remember, even with last-minute cramming. It's stuff that I won't need to memorize in the real world. We have books for that!

Paul Tergat

Medical Law dead handy
Financial management easy

just ****ed for my 2 exams tomorrow though

:|

Breezer wrote: »

Disability for Healthcare - Some evil MCQs on topics we hadn't even covered. Nice short answer questions. Hoping for a B overall.



Now, there's there easy ones done... Much harder to come

really, I heard it was ridiculously easy, MCQs were simple....

Notorious

Intermediate Macro... what a disaster

aequinoctium

stereoroid wrote: »

I think Maths is a means to an end, not an end in itself.

i don't even know where to start.....
blasphemy!

Willum101

Notorious wrote: »

Intermediate Macro... what a disaster

i feel your pain. it was nasty wasnt it? spose thats what i get for being a slacker this semester

Breezer

wrote: »

really, I heard it was ridiculously easy, MCQs were simple....

Some of them were grand, some of them were nasty though. Everyone I spoke to afterwards seemed to feel the same way as me, including super intelligent people who have won awards for things! The SAQs were fine too.

Genetics, Perinatal and Paedatric Diseases - Oh God. This was supposed to be my good subject. EMQs were grand, then came the SAQs. Hard to know how they went really. Had to do 4 from 5 as against 4 from 6 last year which made it harder and forced me to waffle my way through one that I'm going to be crucified on, I just know it. Still though, with a good mid term and some decent stuff in there amongst the waffle I'm still hoping for a B. Isn't hope wonderful?

Paul Tergat

Reinsurance was a doddle this morning, stupid one coming up at 6 oclock which i havent even revised for, so ****ed its not even funny....definitely fail on the way

Jonny Arson

i must be the first student finished, my 3 exams were scheduled during the first 3 days and it was a mighty kick in the balls if i'm honest, woulda loved an extra 24 hours cramming for each exam!

all 3 went grand if not anything spectacularly amazing. spanish ab initio was almost too easy that i overlooked some of the most obvious material in favour of learning all those long impressive phrases that i didn't need during the exam. same with Latin America, got 2 sample questions beforehand, i didn't think they would be on the exam thus didn't prepare for them and both came up , f**k it anyway

yeah finished UCD forever now :cool: :eek: not sure i've done quite enough to get that first class honours but after the sheer mentalness of the past 6 weeks (and the whole 4 years in general) i'll be very happy with a high 2.1!

milkado

financial accounting one was grand cause was basically the same as last years exam papers, don't know what people mean by things balancing though!!

ant043

neurophysiology was a disaster. Cannot say much more :mad:

FledNanders

Notorious wrote: »

Intermediate Macro... what a disaster

Was John Sheehan your lecturer?

Tom65

Early Modern Ireland was a fairly unpleasant paper, though I think I made the best of it.

Raphael

Intro to Programming II was a walk in the park, did all 4 questions in 45 minutes, then sat around waiting to leave.

Unfortunately, I have actual hard exams next week.

dajaffa

Yesterday's musculoskeletal practical was a bit off, my half of the class got a bit of a random question but sure I managed something, though my handling wasn't great as I've 5 manips to do in 5 mins!

Today's Neurology written was similar, one lovely question, but kinda bluffed the other. We got small specific questions whereas last years paper was the 3 big broad areas. Again safe enough though. Four down, four to go!

Waltons

Health Economics earlier, was pretty similar to past papers. Ronseal!

Ballerina

ant043 wrote: »

neurophysiology was a disaster. Cannot say much more :mad:

is that the neurophysiology that was on at 6pm yesterday?...just judging by the time of post i dont know how you got out that quick...

anyway it was a disaster for my too,not unexpected though.i didnt really study it at all at all because i knew it would still be like reading a different language...had fun guessing

ant043

yeah that was the one. Think i just blotted it out at time and its just hit me how shockingly bad i did.

dajaffa

ant043 wrote: »

yeah that was the one. Think i just blotted it out at time and its just hit me how shockingly bad i did.

Ah you might suprise yourself. Last year I attempted all 100 questions and literally was only certain about one of them + I ended up doing grand. In fact nobody in my class had to repeat it which was very suprising to us all!