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The OFFICIAL exams and how to procrastinate yourself into oblivion thread December 08

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    #122
    1huge1
    Registered Users Posts: 6,172 ✭✭✭1huge1


    sweet, is anyone allowed in there?

    say a 1st year?


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    #123
    klong
    Registered Users Posts: 1,381 ✭✭✭klong


    1huge1 wrote: »
    sweet, is anyone allowed in there?

    say a 1st year?

    There'll be nobody there checking ID cards, I'll put it like that ;)


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    #124
    stoney66
    Registered Users Posts: 8 ✭stoney66


    is there any other 2nd year business students apart from me that is feeling hard done by with the exam timetable?6exams in 6 consequative days is a little harsh i feel!!


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    #125
    kaimera
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,396 ✭✭✭✭kaimera


    stoney66 wrote: »
    is there any other 2nd business students apart from me that is feeling hard done by with the exam timetable?6exams in 6 consequative days is a little harsh i feel!!
    i didnt think they could do that?

    6 in 6 i mean


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    #126
    stoney66
    Registered Users Posts: 8 ✭stoney66


    ya its true!!start monday afternoon nd have an exam straight through everyday til saturday


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    #127
    rmacm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,039 ✭✭✭rmacm


    kaimera wrote: »
    i didnt think they could do that?

    6 in 6 i mean

    As far as I know there's no rule that says the college can't do it, it's more of an unwritten rule that they'll try their best to time table exams so that you don't have them on consecutive days.

    But leaving aside other concerns such as availability of space etc. It's possible to schedule 6 exams in 12 days and avoid having exams on consecutive days. Of course the more exams one does the less like likely this is to occur. 7 exams in 12 days for example is impossible to do without having at least 2 exams on consecutive days.

    Yeah I got too much time on my hands.....going to start drinking soon.


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    #128
    Busi_Girl08
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    1st year Business is Monday to Friday straight.


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    #129
    1huge1
    Registered Users Posts: 6,172 ✭✭✭1huge1


    Busi_Girl08 wrote: »
    1st year Business is Monday to Friday straight.
    try first year business and german, monday to friday straight, then a 5 day break till german,
    Im very glad of that 5 day break because german needs a lot of study.


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    #130
    Polar Ice
    Registered Users Posts: 857 ✭✭✭Polar Ice


    stoney66 wrote: »
    is there any other 2nd year business students apart from me that is feeling hard done by with the exam timetable?6exams in 6 consequative days is a little harsh i feel!!

    Yup, however there wasn't really anything that could be done. I'm still trying to remember all the names from the risk articles and book.


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    #131
    ninty9er
    Registered Users Posts: 9,366 ✭✭✭ninty9er


    1huge1 wrote: »
    sweet, is anyone allowed in there?

    say a 1st year?

    You'll be allowed in, but you won't be able to log on unless you have some postgrad's ID and password.


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    #132
    Busi_Girl08
    Registered Users Posts: 17,873 ✭✭✭✭Busi_Girl08


    Im a first year Business student, and I heve my first exam in the SP Hall in the morning.

    Am I right in saying that it's in the old sports building, near the bank?


    Does anyone know whereabouts it is in the building?
    Is it easy to find?


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    #133
    ImDave
    Registered Users Posts: 1,096 ✭✭✭ImDave


    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=58166800&postcount=111

    ^ Not sure if you saw my reply to you yesterday.

    Besides, I wouldn't be too worried about it. There's going to be about 400 other people going to the exact same place, so just follow the crowd. It would be impossible to miss it.


    :( Now, back to taxation: theory and practice...


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    #134
    Busi_Girl08
    Registered Users Posts: 17,873 ✭✭✭✭Busi_Girl08


    Ah right, thanks Dave! Must have missed that! (obviously :o)

    Thanks a mil!


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    #135
    Mossin
    Registered Users Posts: 2,219 ✭✭✭Mossin


    stoney66 wrote: »
    is there any other 2nd year business students apart from me that is feeling hard done by with the exam timetable?6exams in 6 consequative days is a little harsh i feel!!
    stoney66 wrote: »
    ya its true!!start monday afternoon nd have an exam straight through everyday til saturday
    Busi_Girl08 wrote: »
    1st year Business is Monday to Friday straight.
    1huge1 wrote: »
    try first year business and german, monday to friday straight, then a 5 day break till german,
    Im very glad of that 5 day break because german needs a lot of study.

    I've no sympathy cos I've had to go through it as well. :(

    A reason 1st + 2nd yr BBS exams are like that is because of the class size!
    They try to get them out of the way early...and I think its an attempt to weed out the weaker students also, considering the drop out rate is 15 - 20% from first year.


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    #136
    1huge1
    Registered Users Posts: 6,172 ✭✭✭1huge1


    Oh really which language did you pick? Does the language part get a lot harder


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    #137
    ergonomics
    Registered Users Posts: 1,810 ✭✭✭ergonomics


    So I'm desperate here. Has anyone done the module CS4007 before? I think the title is 'Information Society 2'. I have no idea where to start so I'm hoping someone has done it before...

    Ok, I'm making progress now so let's ignore my original post. Instead I ask, how does everyone here study?

    Personally I have to write out everything in bullet points. I can't type them either, they have to be written, hence the massive writer's bump on my ring finger! Once I have something written out I pretty much know it inside out, but will generally read back it over it three or fours times to make sure I know it. It can take ages to write everything out though; I just spent 2 hours bullet pointing a 25 page article into 5 pages but now I know everything there is to know about Knowledge Societies!

    If I have to learn quotes or facts I write them out over and over and over and over again until I know them. I can't sit down and repeat something until I know it. It's such a waste of paper, but I recycle so in my head it's ok.


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    #138
    Mossin
    Registered Users Posts: 2,219 ✭✭✭Mossin


    My 1st exam is in just over 2 hours..

    I've spent the majority of today trying to learn 5 essays. I have them bullet pointed, I have them typed and I have them written by hand TWICE...and I still dont know them all inside out :(

    I only have to re-write 3 in the exam, so hopefully the 3 I know most will come up!

    BTW:
    Good luck to one and all!!

    See you all the other side of them for pints :D


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    #139
    cson
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    I write out bullet points and then I eat the paper so technically the studied material is in me. :pac:


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    #140
    bluedolphin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,421 ✭✭✭bluedolphin


    I used to have colour-coordinated highlighting... E.g. if I was reading an article, anything to do with one aspect would be in yellow, a different aspect in green and another in pink, etc. Similarly with notes in the margin, blue/black/red/green etc.

    I'd also be big into reading articles and making bullet points as I go along, but mostly they'd be argument points or paragraph ideas if a question on that topic would come up.

    I used to write full essays on very general all-question-answering topics (they'd be like 3000-4000 words!); maybe 2-3 per module.

    I absolutely rocked at note-creation. Seriously, the most beautiful, colour-coordinated, neatest notes ever; all carefully filed and sub-filed in lever-arch folders. I'm very protective of them. Mine. All mine. I still have some LC notes too...they were equally beautiful.


    I do not have perfectionist issues.


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    #141
    Peteee
    Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 2,432 Mod ✭✭✭✭Peteee


    bluedolphin wrote: »
    I used to have colour-coordinated highlighting... E.g. if I was reading an article, anything to do with one aspect would be in yellow, a different aspect in green and another in pink, etc. Similarly with notes in the margin, blue/black/red/green etc.

    I'd also be big into reading articles and making bullet points as I go along, but mostly they'd be argument points or paragraph ideas if a question on that topic would come up.

    I used to write full essays on very general all-question-answering topics (they'd be like 3000-4000 words!); maybe 2-3 per module.

    I absolutely rocked at note-creation. Seriously, the most beautiful, colour-coordinated, neatest notes ever; all carefully filed and sub-filed in lever-arch folders. I'm very protective of them. Mine. All mine. I still have some LC notes too...they were equally beautiful.


    I do not have perfectionist issues.

    Ask your doctor about Zoloft by those friendly scienticians at Pfizer to help combat your worrying OCD symptoms!


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    #142
    bazkennedy
    Registered Users Posts: 395 ✭✭bazkennedy


    failing that he'll send you to a nice room with padded walls


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    #143
    ergonomics
    Registered Users Posts: 1,810 ✭✭✭ergonomics


    There's a load of kids out the back of my house in Courtyard, making noise and being kidlike. GET OUT OF MY YARD!


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    #144
    bluedolphin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,421 ✭✭✭bluedolphin


    Peteee wrote: »
    Ask your doctor about Zoloft by those friendly scienticians at Pfizer to help combat your worrying OCD symptoms!
    Scienticians? Scientists, even? :pac:
    bazkennedy wrote: »
    failing that he'll send you to a nice room with padded walls

    Yaay! :)


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    #145
    The Don
    Registered Users Posts: 1,571 ✭✭✭The Don


    Good luck to everyone. Hope any ye had today went well.


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    #146
    rmacm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,039 ✭✭✭rmacm


    Peteee wrote: »
    Ask your doctor about Zoloft by those friendly scienticians at Pfizer to help combat your worrying OCD symptoms!

    CBT in combination with Zoloft has been shown to have greater efficacy in the treatment of OCD than the use of Zoloft alone.
    bazkennedy wrote: »
    failing that he'll send you to a nice room with padded walls

    I'd take the padded room. Might be slightly warmer than here.


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    #147
    Mossin
    Registered Users Posts: 2,219 ✭✭✭Mossin


    1 down and 3 to go

    Selling and Sales....Why he didnt have Forecasting or Key Account Management on the paper I'll never know...After going on about them all year, and then leaving them off of it :mad:

    Luckily I was able to answer 3 questions, but I was writing solidly for 2.5 hours...just about had enough time...

    But 1 done and thats the important thing!


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    #148
    Busi_Girl08
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    1 down, 4 to go.

    Had BIM this morning, got it done in 40 minutes, I got at least 2 wrong, and only got 19% on the online tests.

    I have no idea how that's going to go down....

    Tomorrow I have Management, and right now i am buried under a pile of handwritten sheets, which are more or less copied word for word from Michael's notes, so you can see how that's going:rolleyes:


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    #149
    1huge1
    Registered Users Posts: 6,172 ✭✭✭1huge1


    Busi_Girl08 wrote: »
    1 down, 4 to go.

    Had BIM this morning, got it done in 40 minutes, I got at least 2 wrong, and only got 19% on the online tests.

    I have no idea how that's going to go down....

    Tomorrow I have Management, and right now i am buried under a pile of handwritten sheets, which are more or less copied word for word from Michael's notes, so you can see how that's going:rolleyes:
    1 down and 5 to go, BIM was so easy someone who didnt even do the course would ace it.

    Just found out I got 19.2%/40% for my communications project so might actually open a book for the exam now.

    Management wouldnt be so bad if he gave us an idea of what was coming up, a exam paper would be nice.


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    #150
    ergonomics
    Registered Users Posts: 1,810 ✭✭✭ergonomics


    I'm not starting until Friday, wish I could just get them over and done with now!


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    #151
    Busi_Girl08
    Registered Users Posts: 17,873 ✭✭✭✭Busi_Girl08


    1huge1 wrote: »
    1 down and 5 to go, BIM was so easy someone who didnt even do the course would ace it.

    Just found out I got 19.2%/40% for my communications project so might actually open a book for the exam now.

    Management wouldnt be so bad if he gave us an idea of what was coming up, a exam paper would be nice.

    I got 17.6%, so I really need a miracle for Friday, do you know if Caomhlin is using negative marking?

    I know!!

    OK, so fair enough ,he showed us a couple of sample questions, but it would be good to have apaper just to try them out.

    Ive been studying Mgt all week and have about 50 pages of notes, Im all over the place!!

    Don't even talk to me about Acc.:(


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