Exams!! how are ye set?

DesQ2

Hey Everyone,

As the weather isn't as great its that bit easier to study!

So what course are ye doing and how are ye set for the exams?

bamboozling

I'm doin 1st year Joint Honours. I'm getting no study done this week as I have plenty of assignments to do first. Luckily enough I have week 1 of the exams off so essentially I'll have two study weeks so I'll knuckle down then. That's my story anyway

imbroglio

eh....


I'd say I'll be at my usual cramming-entire-modules-into-twelve-hours craic!

cson

As bad as the 7am starts are up here; this is something I won't miss.

G luck to everyone.

Mindkiller

TheSpecialOne

1st year Joint Honours!Not a tap done but confident ill get through them all bit dodgy on Public Admin doh:(

pervertedcoffee

Wow- there's lots of first year BA Joint Honors on here; yet we never seem to bump into each other on campus...

I haven't been to class since Election week...oh dear... as long as my QCA is 2.0 and I get into second year - 'tis all good.

entropic

Oh sh*t, oh sh*t, oh sh*t

I am absolutly bolloxed for the exams. Second Year applied physics is apperently the hardest year of our course and I have spent far too much time doing nothing this semester.

Nockz

entropic wrote: »

Oh sh*t, oh sh*t, oh sh*t

I am absolutly bolloxed for the exams. Second Year applied physics is apperently the hardest year of our course and I have spent far too much time doing nothing this semester.

Replace applied physics with compter games development and you have my situation

MiciG91

First year Business absouloutley retarded.Why havent i been to lectures ?

JoseJones

MiciG91 wrote: »

First year Business absouloutley retarded.Why havent i been to lectures ?

Just make sure you use crayons and stay inside the lines in the exams and you'll be fine.

JimmyMoose

I am gonezies, went to lectures this week for some tips and what not and they all say, if you've been to lectures you'll be fine. What about the other option?

SarahBeep!

What are these things called exams you people speak of??

paperplanes1988

Could anyone, by any stroke of luck, be able to shed some light on Management Accounting 2 for me?! I missed the last tutorial and have little or no idea on what to be studying for exam questions

Busi_Girl08

First time doing exam based questions since the Leaving Cert.

Feck

metamorphosis

considering these are my last set of exams you would think id be hitting the books more. eek!

freyners

well im fairly confident

nah just kidding, up sh1t creek without a paddle

SarahBeep!

I'm on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday then the NEXT Friday. Boo. I wish I could swap the Tuesday and Friday exams because Tuesday is the worst but I suppose I'll be glad when it's all over!!
Silly Inorganic Chemistry.
But I won't complain :rolleyes:
There are people in my class who've missed 6 weeks of college if not more. And Labs. Missing labs is a sin!

Nagoh

Last ever set of exams in Computer Systems.

The Study Hoodie is out after 4 months in retirement.

It's Go Time.

Mossin

5 years in UL, and I've never procrastinated as much as I have for these exams.

Its the end of Week 13 and I havent even looked at my notes, I barely know which exam is first!!

Luckily I dont have any exams until week 15, but still, I ought to be doing something other than watching whatever sport is on the tv!

DJCR

oh Lord............ I'm gonna pray that there is a God!!

Mossin

39 slides from a guest lecture, and 2 brief mentions of something which is guaranteed to be on the exam! FFS :mad:

How am I supposed to fecking understand it, if he doesnt even provide a definition of the topic!!! :mad:

I really shouldnt have procrastinated all of last week

tweety_bird

business stats first thing in the morning

anyone know what time the main building is open during the week??? Im going to be out early tomorrow and wednesday morning

Busi_Girl08

tweety_bird wrote: »

business stats first thing in the morning

anyone know what time the main building is open during the week??? Im going to be out early tomorrow and wednesday morning

I share your pain, sistah

I thought it was at 12.30 though

2nd year BBS, right? Or is there another Business Stats course?

tweety_bird

Busi_Girl08 wrote: »

I share your pain, sistah

I thought it was at 12.30 though

2nd year BBS, right? Or is there another Business Stats course?

yeah its 12.30 tomorrow i just gotta be out early for meetings!

Busi_Girl08

Oh, ok, phew! You scared me for a second there

Good luck tomorrow!

entropic

24 hours until I start and still no luck finding a pattern in past exam papers. Guess I will have to learn the material.

metamorphosis

1st one was this morning - was brilliantly.

Now a whole week til my 2nd one. 3 next week - tue, fri and sat. Id kinda prefer to have another one or two this week and get them done with quicker.

Mr. K

Had my first this morning, was grand. Could've used an extra half an hour though!

My next is on Friday, I've gotta make myself do something for it today...bleh.

Busi_Girl08

Sweet jebus, I nearly shat my heart out this morning

I had Branding this morning at 9, but since I had a 12.30 exam yesterday, I guess I got it into my head that the exam today was at 9.30.

Anyway. I arrived at the Red Raisins at about 8.20, and did some last minute study. I noticed a few people in my class across from me doing the same.

They all started heading away at about 20 to and quarter to, and I was there thinking "Jayney, they're all heading in early "

At that point, I just thought "feck it, I'll just head up and loiter outside the room for a few minutes before I sign in."
So I headed up, and noticed a few people were already in the rooms, signed in and everything, and then it dawned on me "FECK!! IT'S AT 9!!"
At this point it was about 8.50, but it really shook me up

I also ballsed up the timing in the exam, only got 2 out of 3 essays done.
Ah well, nothing I can do about it now...except CHECK MY BLOODY TIMETABLE PROPERLY!!

Mossin

I hate Managing International Business Growth,
I detest Internationalising New Ventures, and
I am slowly beginning to like Small Business Economics!

Good god thats horrible!! It should be in reverse order!

Next week cant come soon enough, and bring on the 17th!!

Mr. K

Busi_Girl08 wrote: »

Sweet jebus, I nearly shat my heart out this morning

Incidents like this really screw people up for exams. Remaining calm and collected is half the battle!

dee8839

Agreed, if stuff like this (getting time wrong, etc) happens you just have to take a few deep breaths and not let it throw you. I remember first semester of 4th year, had a law exam in the PESS, and didn't realise I didn't have my ID card until I was outside with about 5 minutes to go til it started! And law exams are the kind where you need every second! Had to peg it up to the SAA, nearly died!! Another friend of mine forgot a calculator for an engineering exam. Had to run home to College Court, then forgot his key so had to kick his bedroom door in!!

Mossin, I'm the same as you. 5 years here and never have I been so unmotivated. I keep looking at stuff about the FE1s since I'm going straight into study for them once exams are over. You'd think I'd concentrate on getting the Masters exams first but no...! Disaster.

I hate exams where you have to do three essay type questions. Especially for law. Why can't we just do three essays?! I have three good answers here in front of me for my Saturday exam but with 40 mins a question and 13pgs of writing in each of my 3 answers, its just impossible to give in the exam the same standard as is actually in the essay I'm learning. No time!! Grrr....

thewheel2.0

Didnt want to start a new thread so il ask here... When are the results out for these exams?

Busi_Girl08

thewheel2.0 wrote: »

Didnt want to start a new thread so il ask here... When are the results out for these exams?

21st of June.
I'm going to be at the arse end of the recovery period of a wisdom tooth extraction, so I hope I'm not in too much of a state

Mossin

1st exam today at 4pm...I'm really not looking forward to it at all [not that I enjoy any exams], I just hate this module.

Over 10 topics, 3 questions, and have to answer 2 in essay format.

TheSpecialOne

Sources For History today @ 4...haven't a clue what to expect as there is only one question and all we have done this semester is learn how to use the internet for sources!ugh hate ridiculous modules!

JimmyMoose

TheSpecialOne wrote: »

Sources For History today @ 4...haven't a clue what to expect as there is only one question and all we have done this semester is learn how to use the internet for sources!ugh hate ridiculous modules!

Ugh I have that as well, there is nothing to study for it like?! didn't go to it much for the whole year cos it was a waste of time, all he said about the exam is that if you went to lectures you'll do fine, nice. Gonna be some stupid ass question.

Mindkiller

I'd expect it to be something about comparing the old paradigm of history with the new one. Or something.
Just name drop a load of historians.

It's gonna be broad either way. I'm not too worried. It's the Augustan Lit one that has me panicking.

TheSpecialOne

Mindkiller wrote: »

I'd expect it to be something about comparing the old paradigm of history with the new one. Or something.
Just name drop a load of historians.

It's gonna be broad either way. I'm not too worried. It's the Augustan Lit one that has me panicking.

Is this the first year Module your on about?!...because what u have just said old paradigm with new is ridiculous!..and what is Augustan lit?

Mindkiller

The Augustan Literature module is an English one. About Swift and Pope and whatnot.

The new and old paradigms of history are just fancy buzz-words for the different ways historians 'do' history now as opposed to 50-100 years ago. Eg. There is more of an emphasis on the history of common people now, whereas it used to always be about conquerers and great men.

JimmyMoose

I'm so screwed for Augustan Lit, I have no notes and no idea Man I hate being in this pickle, I'll never learn!!

Yeah it will definitely be something broad and hopefully something easy that I can bullsh*t cos I do not know the names of many historians or anything like that!!

TheSpecialOne

haha currently talking to a few on facebook and they havent a clue what to do for history either!Ridiculous exam and id say people will be leaving it fairly early...im just doing bias objectivity etc..hope i can put them in somewhere.

JimmyMoose

Haha that's exactly what I'm doing too! Just no point even trying for stuff to study, I may as well try study for the test tomorrow instead. Yep bias and objectivity, I love them, bringing me back to the LC days

Mindkiller

I'm not looking forward to that Augustan lit. Don't have enough done yet for an exam question.

I didn't listen to any Bach either, so I'm obviously doomed.

Mossin

End of second week of exams tomorrow, and I'm only sitting my second exam then. Its also fecking economics which I really dislike!

Then I've to cram an entire module into 2.5 days, and I dont finish until Monday evening as my last exam is at 4pm!

Somebody somewhere doesnt want me to have a summer holiday!

p.s. congrats to all who have finished already, especially 4th years and postgrads!

Busi_Girl08

I've kind of hit the studying wall now.

It took me about 4 hours to study 2 topic yesterday, and about 2 hours for me to go over an article and study 1 topic today.

I really enjoy Consumption and Consumer Culture, but I am kind of freaked out about the idea of sitting down to an exam for it

I just want the next 48 hours to be over.

metamorphosis

2 down 2 to go.

1st went brilliantly, 2nd went grand too. Tomorrows should be grand but saturdays public finance is gonna be a pain in my hole. I have done nothing really for it. So from 2.30 + tomorrow itl be crunch time.

Mossin

Busi_Girl08 wrote: »

I've kind of hit the studying wall now.

It took me about 4 hours to study 2 topic yesterday, and about 2 hours for me to go over an article and study 1 topic today.

I really enjoy Consumption and Consumer Culture, but I am kind of freaked out about the idea of sitting down to an exam for it

I just want the next 48 hours to be over.

Is that module with M.P.? If so, dont fret too much, its not that bad iirc, but I agree there is loads to try remember for it!

SarahBeep!

Physics exam in 15 hours.......nuff said

Busi_Girl08

Mossin wrote: »

Is that module with M.P.? If so, dont fret too much, its not that bad iirc, but I agree there is loads to try remember for it!

ML.

I think it's just me psyching myself out at this point
I just really want to get it over with. I hate when the exams are spaced out like this.