The Exams Thread

Frisbee

Surprised there isn't one already.
The usual 'how'd it go' and 'im so screwed for<...>' thread.

First exam tomorrow (Datastructures) and it's going to be the hardest, should be handy enough after that.

Frisbee

betafrog wrote: »

Datastructures is a handy exam, try Principles of programming languages or foundations of computing... They'll keep you up at night...:eek:

I'm alright for Maps, Iterators, Trees and Pattern Matching.
Tries, Graphs and the like i'm struggling with

IM0

I only have one thing to say on the subject........
AAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGHHH....farkin exams...:P

rainbow kirby

betafrog wrote: »

Datastructures is a handy exam, try Principles of programming languages or foundations of computing... They'll keep you up at night...:eek:

^^ This. Third year sucks.

Frisbee - is Simon Dobson still teaching that course?

aequinoctium

quantum mechanics at 12 tomorrow.
it could go either way.

Frisbee

rainbow kirby wrote: »

^^ This. Third year sucks.

Frisbee - is Simon Dobson still teaching that course?

Nope, Rem Collier now

wexican

Strategy at 3 tomorrow. 10 credit course. Will probably be awful.

oh well...

Brimmy

wexican wrote: »

Strategy at 3 tomorrow. 10 credit course. Will probably be awful.

oh well...

A course on strategies? Elaborate..

wexican

Brimmy wrote: »

A course on strategies? Elaborate..

Strategy Formulation and Implementation - BMGT30200

Identifying and analysing sources of superior profitability to firms and developing both corporate and business level strategies around them.

Brimmy

Awh. I thought it would have been someething cool like military strategies or something

Good luck though to you and everyone. My first one is Wednesday. *Crosses fingers*

kev_s88

ugh my 2 Drama exams are gonna suck on friday and saturday..... apart from that it'll all be good....2 days of hell followed by 2 exams in 6 days to close out a great year

fatal

It's that time of the year again.Feels like I only got my christmas results a few weeks ago!!
Anyway,my first exam is on wednesday at 9, so i've another day and a bit to learn half the course! Good luck to everyone doing exams;)

Mr.Nice Guy

First one for me is on Thursday at 9. Politics exam on the Sovereign State. We were told essentially what's coming up but I still feel like I'm screwed. Not looking forward to it at all.

WHY IS THERE SO MUCH GREAT SPORT ON AT THIS TIME OF YEAR?!

GobBass

One on Wednesday (German Political Culture) - (9-11) and then a week off...

...then on the following Wednesday I got the Macroeconomics exam (12-2) which should be hilarious considering about 5 out of 250+ people took down Frank Walsh's MCQ sample Q&A...

..then the next day is Film Studies (12-2) in which I will hopefully do well in as I got quite good marks in the buildup.

On That Same day at 6-8 lies my second German language exam which should also be hilarious considering not a single positive review coming out of the orals with the exception of the hardcore/fluent/went to a German school types.

Then finally on Friday..I go round 2 with Moore McDowell on the Micro resit (3-5) and then stroll outta Simmonscourt and then freak out about what the hell I did wrong.


One this week. 4 exams in three days next week...no pressure:eek::eek::eek:

I didn't know the beginning of summer was gonna have THIS much fun in it.:(

SRFC90

I'm fcuked.

bnt

SRFC90 wrote: »

I'm fcuked.

Get some sleep, you'll feel better in the morning.

Me, I'm pretty happy with the way it's going. Only major concern is STAT20060 (Statistics for Engineers) on Friday. Anyone else who was on that course this semester will understand why, but it will shortly pass in to legend, and time heals all wounds, they say.

Theresalwaysone

Accounting 3 in t-minus 1 hr. Siiiiick. Im so fúcked.


Then Strategy later. All hype imo. Porter is the king of stating the obvious. Genius made a living from it. Well done sir.

Xhristy

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Raphael

aequinoctium wrote: »

quantum mechanics at 12 tomorrow.
it could go either way.

2 hours to go.

=(

Mushy

First one not till thursday, and then thats arguably the easiest exam for me, and only 1 hour. Am getting steadily through other subjects, have enough time to finish off the studying and and re-cap once over again.

Good luck to everyone else too!

princess-sprkle

i've my first one in an hour and a half, not really worried since i know exactly whats coming up but i still feel really nervous. second one tomorrow then i'm done! apart from my thesis

dhaddock

data structures was grand I thought. Except for the greedy question!! He mentioned that on the last day and then threw it in as mandatory :eek:

Dave!

Had my Operating Systems exam on Friday... Failed it like there's no tomorrow. Only had 25% (from possible 70%) going in, the exam was worth 30%. I didn't even answer enough questions to pass it, and those that I did answer I just guessed.

So f*cked. Just hope I can scrape a compensation.

3 exams left, starting Saturday with Asia & Australia.

Thomas_S_Hunterson

Got my first tomorrow, elective. Been to zero lectures.

dhaddock

is it quantative economics by any chance?? Im exactly the same!

dmigsy

Just 2 exams. In the space of 5 hours next Wednesday.:rolleyes:

Thomas_S_Hunterson

dhaddock wrote: »

is it quantative economics by any chance?? Im exactly the same!

That's the one. I'll probably kill myself with shame if I don't get an A+:pac:

SRFC90

I've that as well. Bloody hell I havn't a clue what the story is with that at all. And the classes I've been to there's been an average attendance of 11.

mac123

Brimmy wrote: »

Awh. I thought it would have been someething cool like military strategies or something

Good luck though to you and everyone. My first one is Wednesday. *Crosses fingers*

nah mate, theres nothing cool about it! and its 10 credits:(

the mcq was hard, i had an idea of one of the answers the other 24 were guessed. compulsary q was easy and the other 2 i did were ok but not great. pretty bad exam overall in my opinion!
the rest should be a bit better though..

mac123

SRFC90 wrote: »

I've that as well. Bloody hell I havn't a clue what the story is with that at all. And the classes I've been to there's been an average attendance of 11.

yeah im in there two, its pretty easy stuff though, im gonna cover it all in the morning hopefully.

damselnat

mac123 wrote: »

yeah im in there two, its pretty easy stuff though, im gonna cover it all in the morning hopefully.

This what we all thought last semester. Went to a few lectures, couple of tutorials, laughed at the p1ss easiness of it (yes, simultaneous equations, ooh hard....)
Ah, the look on our faces when we all left that exam convinced we'd all failed....
I passed - just about....that taught me my lesson:o

starface

Financial Economics 2 saturday...boooohoooo ...

SRFC90

mac123 wrote: »

yeah im in there two, its pretty easy stuff though, im gonna cover it all in the morning hopefully.

What ya get in the midterm?

traceystacey

4 exams over 4 days in a row next week :eek:, the joys of my third and final year!!

Brimmy

First one tomorrow. Nineteenth Century Literature. At 6pm so thankfully don't have to be up early for it.

Just finishing my notes for it now (had them done but compiling them down to one sheet) and time to cram between now and then after relooking over the texts and maybe watching a film of one of them just to be on the safe side

Mr.Nice Guy

Is the set-up the same as it was at Christmas exams? Head in, find your number and all that jazz?

Jev/N

Mr.Nice Guy wrote: »

Is the set-up the same as it was at Christmas exams? Head in, find your number and all that jazz?

Yep but 'tis in Simmonscourt

Mr.Nice Guy

Jev/N wrote: »

Yep but 'tis in Simmonscourt

Probably a dumb question here but is that different to where we did the Christmas ones?

bnt

Mr.Nice Guy wrote: »

Probably a dumb question here but is that different to where we did the Christmas ones?

Yes! It's a huge shed off Simmonscourt Rd, across the road to the south from the main RDS arena. See rds.ie for a map if unsure - do not try to guess it or wing it, and allow plenty of time if you've never been there before.

Mr.Nice Guy

bnt wrote: »

Yes! It's a huge shed off Simmonscourt Rd, across the road to the south from the main RDS arena. See rds.ie for a map if unsure - do not try to guess it or wing it, and allow plenty of time if you've never been there before.

Ah Boards saves my arse again. I'd no idea! Thanks for the info.

Frank Grimes

Mr.Nice Guy wrote: »

First one for me is on Thursday at 9. Politics exam on the Sovereign State.

That's the first one for me too. At this stage I'm getting sick of reading stuff that mentions the word sovereignty 10 times per page, but the exam itself should be ok.

griffdaddy

Brimmy wrote: »

First one tomorrow. Nineteenth Century Literature. At 6pm so thankfully don't have to be up early for it.

Just finishing my notes for it now (had them done but compiling them down to one sheet) and time to cram between now and then after relooking over the texts and maybe watching a film of one of them just to be on the safe side

just finishing off my notes for that as well, i feel eerily confident given that i've done essentially no study for it. I was looking at the past papers though, and it seems that you can get by with just two text, I.e. Soloman's Mines and The Importance of Being Earnest, that's my intention anyway, with some Irish poetry up my sleeve in case i get stuck.

mac123

SRFC90 wrote: »

What ya get in the midterm?

14 out of 20, i could have done a lot better had i prepared for it though. im hoping for a high b in this at the very least.
its gonna be a final year gpa booster for me:)

NU8

Is Simmonscourt the place where funderland is held?

El Siglo

Yeh it's the same place as funderland, here's a map

Notorious

Anyone else doing Economics of Public Policy next Friday? I've been told the final is an MCQ, but for some reason I thought it was a written exam with 2 sections. Can anyone clear it up for me?

I start tomorrow at 12 with the geography of Latin America. Should be handy enough. I'm leafing through one of the huge readings she gave us..

Frisbee

dhaddock wrote: »

data structures was grand I thought. Except for the greedy question!! He mentioned that on the last day and then threw it in as mandatory :eek:

Aye the greedy question really fecked me over aswell. Thank god Maps and Dictionaries came up in an optional question though. Trees were a handy one aswell

BlackMamba

Finished Reading Medieval Literature there. It was....meh! Could have been worse I suppose! Have 20th Century Drama tomorrow morning at 9am!:(

randomchild

19th century went according to plan now onto Modernism!

seraphimvc

now the first bitch was gone yesterday and 2 more to go on saturday

Mushy

Qualitative Research at 12 today, was fine. Used it as a warm up exercise for my hand, as hadnt written that style in a while, so all warmed up for the two hour exams coming. Also managed a 10 minute nap at the end:D

Went well!