Official Exam Thread [for all preparation and exam talk nonsense]

Mossin

Hey all,

With the exams looming large i thought it'd be nice to have a thread deidcate to all exam preparation, rather than clog the daily bitch thread with exam nonsense!

Complain, compare, celebrate etc in here.

I've only got 3 exams, but have to go from the 6th until the 18th....the 13 tap challenge is gonna have to wait a few weeks for me!

These are my final undergraduate exams...god im getting sentimental!

Anyhow, the best of luck to everyone, hope you all get what you need/want!

kaimera

exam nonsense?

I appeared to have bricked 250e worth of electronics over the weekend due to a manufacture **** up by releasing a dodgy bios update. fail.

gob****es.

VivGrise

exams wreck my head just like everyone elses!!!! can't study until a day or two before the day of the exam!

Mossin

Where is the cry icon?!

Good God I hate Strategic Management!!

Perhaps that because I only went to 3 lectures all semester, and dont have a f**king clue whats going on now

The most boring subject ever encountered, and the most boring lecturer imo.
The only thing I know is PEST analysis and thats cos we are studying it yet again! :mad:

I mean, ffs after learning it once you'd think that lecturers wouldnt bombard you with it again for another 3 years, but no!

At least I have 24% going into exam already...that could be my saving grace in getting a C-Grade...:o

VivGrise

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRGHHHHH!!!!


PUBLIC FOLDERS WONT WORK FOR ME!!!!!

HOW AM I MEANT TO GET PAST EXAM PAPERS NOW!!!
f u c k!

bluedolphin

No comment. :pac: :pac: :pac:

VivGrise

bluedolphin wrote: »

No comment. :pac: :pac: :pac:

:cool::cool: lets keep it that way

1huge1

Actually I can't complain much, a nice enough timetable finishing the 13th with german.
Only really worried about managerial accounting.

Business maths is a pain but you can get over that.

ergonomics

Anyone up for a post-exam BULB's?

clearya

Mossin wrote: »

Where is the cry icon?!

Good God I hate Strategic Management!!

Perhaps that because I only went to 3 lectures all semester, and dont have a f**king clue whats going on now

The most boring subject ever encountered, and the most boring lecturer imo.
The only thing I know is PEST analysis and thats cos we are studying it yet again! :mad:

I mean, ffs after learning it once you'd think that lecturers wouldnt bombard you with it again for another 3 years, but no!

At least I have 24% going into exam already...that could be my saving grace in getting a C-Grade...:o

I actually enjoy strategic management..though I only went to 2 lectures :P Good thing I had Jim for the tutorials

DCJR

Mossin wrote: »

Good God I hate Strategic Management!!

Perhaps that because I only went to 3 lectures all semester, and dont have a f**king clue whats going on now

The most boring subject ever encountered, and the most boring lecturer imo.
The only thing I know is PEST analysis and thats cos we are studying it yet again! :mad:

havent gone to a single hour of strategic!!! friend of mine gave me all her essays from last year that she got an A2 with!!sorted:D!!!enjoy wasting time writing your own ones kid!!!:p

clearya

DCJR wrote: »

havent gone to a single hour of strategic!!! friend of mine gave me all her essays from last year that she got an A2 with!!sorted:D!!!enjoy wasting time writing your own ones kid!!!:p

Damn you! The only upside that I can think of to doing my own essay is that I should remember it better on the day...The CW and competitive adv stuff is quite easy to remember when you understand it...gonna leave stakeholder mgt til tomorrow, so much to do!

Zeouterlimits

One of these days I'll actually get some study done..
both & :mad:.

ergonomics wrote: »

Anyone up for a post-exam BULB's?

Perhaps, depends when.

DJCR

DCJR wrote: »

havent gone to a single hour of strategic!!! friend of mine gave me all her essays from last year that she got an A2 with!!sorted:D!!!enjoy wasting time writing your own ones kid!!!:p

Sharing is caring :D:D

Nockz

Zeouterlimits wrote: »

One of these days I'll actually get some study done..
both & :mad:.


Perhaps, depends when.

Who are we kidding man?!?!

Mossin

DCJR wrote: »

havent gone to a single hour of strategic!!! friend of mine gave me all her essays from last year that she got an A2 with!!sorted:D!!!enjoy wasting time writing your own ones kid!!!:p

Enjoy those lad! (I'm very jealous right now) :pac:

I have gotten my hands on some past essays too, but I have no idea of the standard of them, and some arent this years topics either...just make sure you dont just learn last years essays for the craic, cos I'd laugh a lot if you learned the wrong essays just cos you got them from last year...

But I'll be nice, and tell you that Competitive Advantage; Alliance Management; Stakeholder Mapping; Process, Content, Context are 4 of the topics that are coming up...[but you probably already knew that ]

Anyhow you only need to know three

dee8839

Corporate Taxation is doing my head in. I just think I'm getting the hang of a question and suddenly I discover a whole new type that I've never even seen before...

As for Auditing...have a meeting with a tutor in 45 minutes to talk about how little I understand, and yet here I am instead of actually looking at the papers. At this rate when I go to him I won't even understand what it is that I don't understand....blah.

And the worst of it all is I'm not even going for tax or accountancy next year....god I picked a bad course.

End of Rant. For now.

ninty9er

bluedolphin wrote: »

No comment. :pac: :pac: :pac:

Where's the unthanks button!!

Mossin wrote: »

But I'll be nice, and tell you that Competitive Advantage; Alliance Management; Stakeholder Mapping; Process, Content, Context are 4 of the topics that are coming up...[but you probably already knew that ]

Anyhow you only need to know three

You learn something new everyday....but you already knew I didn't know that...didn't you...study group tomorrow afternoon?

Mossin

ninty9er wrote: »

Study group tomorrow afternoon?

I wont get anything done in a study group I think.

I'll suffer through this nonsense on my own until the end of the exams...

ninty9er

I have 3 exams next week and as yet have studied for not 1. I know I will eventually get around to it....but I've had my first Welfare meeting and now I'm distracted doing stuff that could easily wait until after exams.....ARGHHHHHH!!

limericklady87

Company Law....:(:( once again my brain is too small to handle all this info...overload alert!

1huge1

Studying going fairly well (staying in Limerick the weekend to get a lot of work done), beein in Kemmy all week, computer rooms in there are handy places to study.


Organisational behavious is some bore to study, honestly like what a module...pointless.
Finished studying macro today, fave module by a mile.
Maths is alright, getting through it.
Managerial accounting... Went over cash book, though if I managed to get a C1 at christmas this one shouldnt be too bad.

And german well its not for almost 2 weeks so no hurry.

Finish the 13th...

Mossin

1huge1 wrote: »

Organisational behaviour is some bore to study, honestly like what a module...pointless.
Finished studying macro today, fave module by a mile.

Yup that was a really pointless module alright!
Wait until you reach 4th year and are doing the Strategic Management which we are suffering through right now! Its more of the same nonsense, except worse...[if thats even possible]

Macro was one of my favourite modules as well, and I dislike economics...It tells alot about the lecturer tbh. He makes it interesting, and you actually want to be in his lectures.
For his exam, study ALL of the tutorial notes, and know the past papers and you'll easily get an A1...I managed it, so it must be doable! :pac:

Busi_Girl08

I am royally screwed for BIM and Macro.

I've been studying all week, workin' away.
I feel grand enough about Busiiness Maths, handy module that.
Man. Acc. Hmm...dunno really. I might be ok for the budget, but the theory is a bit mincey.
Organisational Behaviour....all I can say is THATNK BLOODY GOD she got rid of negative marking!!!!!!!!!!!

Still though...not much I can do now!:(

1huge1

Mossin wrote: »

Yup that was a really pointless module alright!
Wait until you reach 4th year and are doing the Strategic Management which we are suffering through right now! Its more of the same nonsense, except worse...[if thats even possible]

Macro was one of my favourite modules as well, and I dislike economics...It tells alot about the lecturer tbh. He makes it interesting, and you actually want to be in his lectures.
For his exam, study ALL of the tutorial notes, and know the past papers and you'll easily get an A1...I managed it, so it must be doable! :pac:

Thanks for the info, I really like economics myself despite never doing in in the leaving cert, definitely gonna major in economics and finance next year. Hoping for a A alright as the project went realy well for me despite noticing a biog mistake 30mins before the deadline but got it done on time.

Busi_Girl08 wrote: »

I am royally screwed for BIM and Macro.

Luckily for the OB midterm on sulis, about 10 of us did it together so got 25/30 despite never going to a lecture.

I've been studying all week, workin' away.
I feel grand enough about Busiiness Maths, handy module that.
Man. Acc. Hmm...dunno really. I might be ok for the budget, but the theory is a bit mincey.
Organisational Behaviour....all I can say is THATNK BLOODY GOD she got rid of negative marking!!!!!!!!!!!

Still though...not much I can do now!:(

Not doing BIM this semester as I've german instead of it, I hear from friends that its a lot harder this semester though, gotta miss Eoin Whelans lectures and his little breaks in between.

Busi_Girl08

Ya, John Buckley's gas in the lectures, but it's just really confusing to follow the notes.

His notes are nearly all pictures, and then it's him talking.
Was kind of struggling with it for a while, and the fact that it's short questions rather than MCQs, and the fact that I have the worst hand writing in the world.....I'd say I am pretty stuffed

DCJR

Mossin wrote: »

Competitive Advantage; Alliance Management; Stakeholder Mapping; Process, Content, Context are 4 of the topics that are coming up...

Moss....


two questions you might be able to answer please....:D

1. is Mintzberg V Waters coming up on the test? not sure if that is process conten and context is it???

2. is strategic change and cultural web coming up together or is it just cultural web??

thanks bro

Mossin

DCJR wrote: »

Moss....

two questions you might be able to answer please....:D

1. is Mintzberg V Waters coming up on the test? not sure if that is process conten and context is it???

2. is strategic change and cultural web coming up together or is it just cultural web??

thanks bro

Afaik, Mintzberg and Waters is part of process, content and context. That is why I am not touching that question! Also because I havent the foggiest notion of what its on about, and the tutor said not to do it if you dont understand it! So I'm taking her advice...But like I said, it appears to be a part of that question.

Again, I do believe that the cultural web is part of hte strategic change question. I am only learning about the web, and nothing else! Its all that I'll be putting down on paper in the exam.

I'll be doing alliance management [strategic alliances], strategic change [cultural web] and stakeholder mapping. I feel that they are the 3 that I understand the most.
I'm not even looking at competitve advantage either. I think that encompasses RBV also. I had enough of that in the F1 case study!

Hope this helps somewhat.

ninty9er

Mossin wrote: »

Afaik, Mintzberg and Waters is part of process, content and context. That is why I am not touching that question! Also because I havent the foggiest notion of what its on about, and the tutor said not to do it if you dont understand it! So I'm taking her advice...But like I said, it appears to be a part of that question.

Again, I do believe that the cultural web is part of hte strategic change question. I am only learning about the web, and nothing else! Its all that I'll be putting down on paper in the exam.

I'll be doing alliance management [strategic alliances], strategic change [cultural web] and stakeholder mapping. I feel that they are the 3 that I understand the most.
I'm not even looking at competitve advantage either. I think that encompasses RBV also. I had enough of that in the F1 case study!

Hope this helps somewhat.

Really have to do CA...mainly because I have the notes for it and because I have some RBV done for Personnel Mgt. tomorrow.

Probably strategic change too, because again SHRM will help it and I don't have time to study 2 subjects in 2 days.

Zeouterlimits

Failure incoming.

And yet...
"This is the path that ALL great men walk!
If there's a wall in our way, we'll destroy it!
If there's no road, we'll pave it with our own hands!
The magma in our hearts is blazing like flames!"

ninty9er

Zeouterlimits wrote: »

Failure incoming.

And yet...
"This is the path that ALL great men walk!
If there's a wall in our way, we'll destroy it!
If there's no road, we'll pave it with our own hands!
The magma in our hearts is blazing like flames!"

Failure is really only failure if you give up, otherwise it's just another shot at success...albeit at a cost.

ninty9er

I could get a 1:1 in bull**** after that exam. I did the readings, but for the life of me couldn't put the right material with the right authors, so didn't bother referring to them like asked, I just generalised.

Here's hoping for an A1:pac:

DCJR

Mossin wrote: »

Afaik, Mintzberg and Waters is part of process, content and context. That is why I am not touching that question! Also because I havent the foggiest notion of what its on about, and the tutor said not to do it if you dont understand it! So I'm taking her advice...But like I said, it appears to be a part of that question.

Again, I do believe that the cultural web is part of hte strategic change question. I am only learning about the web, and nothing else! Its all that I'll be putting down on paper in the exam.

I'll be doing alliance management [strategic alliances], strategic change [cultural web] and stakeholder mapping. I feel that they are the 3 that I understand the most.
I'm not even looking at competitve advantage either. I think that encompasses RBV also. I had enough of that in the F1 case study!

Hope this helps somewhat.

thanks moss.:pac:

i would thank you under your comment but dont know how.:(

one final question...

what wil you do if the strategic change question doesnt ask about cultural web? i have an essay that my friend done up on cultural web but its literally ALL on cultural web, nothing on strategic change (i think the other way this question can be asked is on pettigrew and whipp...??).....

i've learned two essays on strategic alliance and competitive advantage, now just not sure about a third one...


thanks again

Mossin

DCJR wrote: »

one final question...

what wil you do if the strategic change question doesnt ask about cultural web? i have an essay that my friend done up on cultural web but its literally ALL on cultural web, nothing on strategic change (i think the other way this question can be asked is on pettigrew and whipp...??).....

I'll still write my Cultural Web essay. I'm only preparing 3 essays. They will be written down tomorrow regardless of the questions asked!
I know its not the most ideal method, or even the smartest thing I've ever done, but its what I did for IEM last semester too.

All you can do is hope for the best!

1huge1

DCJR wrote: »

thanks moss.:pac:

i would thank you under your comment but dont know how.:(



thanks again

Use the thumbs up icon at the bottom right hand corner of his post

Busi_Girl08

Right, one down, 4 to go!!

OB1 finished. Wasn't as bad as I thought it would be.
The questions were fair enough I thought, although a handful of them were complete guesses:cool:

Next, Macro.
That should be interesting...

1huge1

Busi_Girl08 wrote: »

Right, one down, 4 to go!!

OB1 finished. Wasn't as bad as I thought it would be.
The questions were fair enough I thought, although a handful of them were complete guesses:cool:

Next, Macro.
That should be interesting...

Ya OB went fairly well, there was a lot of stuff I haven't learned but I think a bit of the old common knowledge made me do fairly ok in it, (that and the no negative marking...)

Economics should be nice, one module I really like.
Some amount of work to do after that though

ninty9er

I've just read a competitive advantage essay (in 2 variations) and am confident I can pass this exam having started studying only half an hour ago.

ninty9er

Ah procrastination...I've just gone and added, amongst others, 1Huge1 on facebook:pac:

playingpirate

For anybody thats learning an essay and writing it no matter what the question is for Strat Man like me...

I was at Jim's tutorial in week 12, the one he gives himself, and he said he was making the questions more opened ended this year to allow us write what we know...

Apparently the world we're entering after college is stressful enough and he doesnt want us screwed over by an exam before we leave

He also offered to give anybody a reference if they ever needed one!

Sound.

ninty9er

playingpirate wrote: »

For anybody thats learning an essay and writing it no matter what the question is for Strat Man like me...

I was at Jim's tutorial in week 12, the one he gives himself, and he said he was making the questions more opened ended this year to allow us write what we know...

Apparently the world we're entering after college is stressful enough and he doesnt want us screwed over by an exam before we leave

He also offered to give anybody a reference if they ever needed one!

Sound.

Ya I met him about the project a few weeks back and he was dead on about it. Said to call if I ever needed any help or references.

The Don

Good luck to everybody (a bit late I know)

Mossin

Well thats 1 down and 2 to go!

I'm not ecstatic with how it went, but I'm quite content with it
I got to write all 3 of my essays the way I had written them [which isnt exactly how the question was asked] but I had to rework them slightly.

Dont care too much more anyhow! That exam is now finished

Next exam on Monday..

DCJR

didnt like the stakeholders question.

kinda threw me

but other than that was ok


off to bed now. have been awake since 6 am on tuesday morning.

brain is fried

its amazing what six cans of red bull will do for you.

DJCR

DCJR wrote: »

didnt like the stakeholders question.

I thought it was ok.... It was just a normal question except of say stakeholder it said non-shareholder!!

I thought the exam was ok.... the question on Porter was really short though.... did anyone else find that?

ninty9er

DCJR wrote: »

didnt like the stakeholders question.

kinda threw me

but other than that was ok


off to bed now. have been awake since 6 am on tuesday morning.

brain is fried

its amazing what six cans of red bull will do for you.

A bare minimum of study (3 hours) and I was happy enough with that exam. I covered most of the stuff apart from the management issues with Alliances and may have mixed up the stakeholder groups.

The Don

I read this:

DCJR wrote: »

didnt like the stakeholders question.

kinda threw me

then saw DJCR had quoted DCJR and said the opposite.

DJCR wrote: »

I thought it was ok.... It was just a normal question except of say stakeholder it said non-shareholder!!

Didn't see the little difference in names for a minute until I saw the post count was different.:rolleyes:

DJCR

The Don wrote: »

I read this:

then saw DJCR had quoted DCJR and said the opposite.

Didn't see the little difference in names for a minute until I saw the post count was different.:rolleyes:

Yeah its getting old now .... was fun to start with... now just silly !!

Busi_Girl08

Oh my bejaysus, that Macro couldn't have been more of a disaster!!!!

The majority of them were complete guesses, and I left about 3 of them unanswered, probalby should have left more

Just gotta pray for a good result for the project!!
Thank got for attendance marks aswelL!!

DCJR

DJCR wrote: »

I thought it was ok.... It was just a normal question except of say stakeholder it said non-shareholder!!

I thought the exam was ok.... the question on Porter was really short though.... did anyone else find that?

i just had an introduction, outlined the two theories and their components, stated the differences and then stated how they worked together and conclusion.

my answer was just under six pages

cson

Busi_Girl08 wrote: »

Oh my bejaysus, that Macro couldn't have been more of a disaster!!!!

The majority of them were complete guesses, and I left about 3 of them unanswered, probalby should have left more

Just gotta pray for a good result for the project!!
Thank got for attendance marks aswelL!!

You'll be fine, you'll pass that module on attendance+homework sheets alone. A decent stab at the project and you'll be flying it

Oh and specifically for Ninty and Mossin; I presume you had Business Stats as a module? Dya reckon its possible to pass it on one days study tomorrow? I'm coming around to the conclusion that attending 1 lec and 1 tute all semester and leaving it until now to study... well perhaps it wasn't the best of idea's :eek: