Good Luck In Exams 2010

CJTobin

Just a thread to wish all boardsies the very best in the exams over the next few weeks, vent your enthusiasm/frustration right here, and let us all know how they go.

Aoibheann

+ a million, good luck to everyone here!

Why, oh god WHY did I not do pure Maths? Maths I can study. You just *do* maths. I can manage that, I cannot manage all these WORDS that Physics is shoving in my face. I'm sure it's not difficult.. but I have somewhere around 45ish lectures to cover, and my exam is at 9.30am tomorrow. T minus 10 hours..

Does any TP type in any other year know if we actually have to pass the physics papers themselves, or can CA pull you up? 'cause I've pretty much passed on CA alone, but I've heard from some lecturers that we need to pass the papers.. It doesn't say this anywhere though.. ¬_¬

Sir Ophiuchus

CJTobin wrote: »

Just a thread to wish all boardsies the very best in the exams over the next few weeks, vent your enthusiasm/frustration right here, and let us all know how they go.

Seconded. I think I'm okay with my papers, but I do wish I'd done a lot more reading during the year instead of cramming most of it in the week before...

ronivek

Aye indeed; best of luck to all. Stop procrastinating on boards!!!

Kwekubo

I approve of this message. So very much to do over the next fortnight...

dabh

CJTobin wrote: »

Just a thread to wish all boardsies the very best in the exams over the next few weeks, vent your enthusiasm/frustration right here, and let us all know how they go.

...whilst bearing in mind that this is a publicly accessible forum. You have no way of knowing who might be lurking out there, or whose real identities are known to them.

claire h

Good luck all... stay sane(ish), imbibe much caffeine, get plenty of sleep, etc.

PurpleFistMixer

Aoibheann wrote: »

Why, oh god WHY did I not do pure Maths?

Welcome to TP!

In terms of passing papers, I think you have to get at least 35% to pass by compensation. Not sure though. If you remember leaving cert physics you SHOULD be able to get 35%, theoretically.

Schols destroyed my self-discipline (by using it all up, I guess), so I've been playing computer games all evening. Oh well... FIrst exam isn't until Thursday, so there is time.

Good luck everyone!

amacachi

Not startin til Wednesday, need all the luck I can get tbh.

Good luck everyone.

Prof.Badass

ronivek wrote: »

Aye indeed; best of luck to all. Stop procrastinating on boards!!!

:eek:. wow. How did you do that?

Aoibheann

PurpleFistMixer wrote: »

Welcome to TP!

In terms of passing papers, I think you have to get at least 35% to pass by compensation. Not sure though. If you remember leaving cert physics you SHOULD be able to get 35%, theoretically.

Schols destroyed my self-discipline (by using it all up, I guess), so I've been playing computer games all evening. Oh well... FIrst exam isn't until Thursday, so there is time.

Good luck everyone!

Aye, know about the compensation, wasn't sure if I definitely had to pass the papers.. I already have ~37% built up in physics before I go into the exam, but I figure I have to pass the papers too, unfortunately.. And it's been 3 years nearly since I did leaving cert physics at this stage..

Mmm, gaming - I'm not a fan but it's looking tempting as a mode of procrastination.. Good luck with your exams!

Ron DMC

Good luck everyone, and to help bolster you towards getting through them, I finished my exams on Thursday last and it feels great to be done for the summer.

Just get through them and don't be nervous.

bythewoods

Kwekubo wrote: »

I approve of this message. So very much to do over the next fortnight...

On the plus side, you're getting like, 1000% of your RDA of B12 everyday as a result...

A Neurotic

bythewoods wrote: »

On the plus side, you're getting like, 1000% of your RDA of B12 everyday as a result...

And you know that that's essential for the formation of red blood cells.

Thank god that the stomach's vital function in secreting intrinsic factor causes absorption of B12 is the distal ileum. Thank. God.

[/exam-related nervous breakdown]

Tar.Aldarion

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

GlasnevinRed

Tar.Aldarion wrote: »

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Exactly.:(

SligoBrewer

2 hours sleep last night.

Exam at 9.

Aoibheann

SligoBrewer wrote: »

2 hours sleep last night.

Exam at 9.

Sleep won out over study for me! >.< That exam was a large pile of meh - they left out half of the special relativity questions on the paper, and we didn't get them for quite a while. I wish we were allowed to do the mechanics questions on the paper.. Ah well, hopefully what I did remember will pull me through anyway! I can but hope at this point.

Hope everyone else who had an exam this morning got on ok!

Groinshot

SligoBrewer wrote: »

2 hours sleep last night.

Exam at 9.

you left my apartment at 11..... what were you doing?????

SligoBrewer

Groinshot wrote: »

you left my apartment at 11..... what were you doing?????

Couldn't sleep.

andrew

dabh wrote: »

...whilst bearing in mind that this is a publicly accessible forum. You have no way of knowing who might be lurking out there, or whose real identities are known to them.

<_< >_>

Dudley, if you're out there, that Macro part today was a tricky bastard. And go easy on Friday. Please, no crazy stuff.

ronivek

First exam tomorrow; the panic has well and truly begun. Must find a chicken to make a sacrifice to the exam gods so the paper will be nice; because if it deviates in any way from the last couple of years I'm royally screwed.

Larianne

1 down 3 to go.

That was an easy exam.. if I had of studied the sections that came up! Damn it.

Best of luck ye'all!

Varik

Any other courses have a change in the number of questions asked and time as well.
i had my easiest exam today a simple engineering management one, do 3 out of 5 in 2 hours (was 4 out 6 in the 3 hour) most barely got it done and a good few people did not. don't know what these idiots were thinking changing the exam. i have 8 real exams coming up this is insane.

GlasnevinRed

9 more for me starting with Vertebrate Form and Function this morning. Ugh, xmas exams please.

mardybumbum

Relatively relaxed considering how fooked I am.
Must start psychiatry.

bythewoods

mardybumbum wrote: »

Relatively relaxed considering how fooked I am.
Must start psychiatry.

On the plus side, you guys still have 3 feckin' weeks before ye start!

I still have a week to go before I start...
I'm wasting so much time on Anatomy, it just takes me hours to learn ANYTHING, eughhhhhh.
And I'm getting so unbelievably freaked out about Biochemistry..... I really really REALLY don't want to have to repeat it... and all I have to do is scrape a pass, but ahhhhh... I HATE DNA!!

I was a lot more relaxed, too relaxed even, but now that all the girls I live with have started their exams I'm getting the butterfly sensation about my ones. SOB.

rant/ whinge/ bitch/ sob

just-joe

In case you didn't know, maths is ****. (sorry OP)

That is all.

Aoibheann

just-joe wrote: »

In case you didn't know, maths is ****. (sorry OP)

That is all.

Bad exam, or just general hatred at this point? I'm almost looking forward to studying maths (which I should have started by now.. >.<) as it means I'm finally away from physics. Such sweet, sweet relief to have those two papers out of the way.

2 down, 3 to go.

just-joe

Aoibheann wrote: »

Bad exam, or just general hatred at this point?

Both. Its just generally crap in every way.

Kwekubo

bythewoods wrote: »

On the plus side, you're getting like, 1000% of your RDA of B12 everyday as a result...

And pantothenic acid, so the can tells me.

mardybumbum

bythewoods wrote: »

I'm wasting so much time on Anatomy, it just takes me hours to learn ANYTHING, eughhhhhh.

Anatomy is a bitch like that. A lot of effort has to be put in to make any progress. If its any consolation, second year anatomy is harder again.

bythewoods

mardybumbum wrote: »

Anatomy is a bitch like that. A lot of effort has to be put in to make any progress. If its any consolation, second year anatomy is harder again.

Thanks, I feel an awful lot better now...

It's all going to be fine. It'll be fine. I'm actually quite confident about Anatomy now! Going to DR the shizz out of it tomorrow and confound all my newfound knowledge. It'll be fine....


...:(

mardybumbum

Best of luck.

Kwekubo

bythewoods wrote: »

Going to DR the shizz out of it tomorrow and confound all my newfound knowledge.

I hope you mean compound your knowledge

dan719

Oh ****!

mardybumbum

Kwekubo, can you remember the sort of questions that came up in the microbiology exam in the lab sessions. Have mine tomorrow.
Im expecting questions like, what does CLED stand for, miles misra calculation, number of microbes deemed significant in a MSU sample, handwashing technique, e.t.c.

Anything out of the ordinary come up last year?

evercloserunion

Some days it's just so hard to get motivated even when you have the fear of an exam in a couple of days. Horrible, all you can do is hope tomorrow is better I suppose.

Kwekubo

mardybumbum wrote: »

Kwekubo, can you remember the sort of questions that came up in the microbiology exam in the lab sessions. Have mine tomorrow.
Im expecting questions like, what does CLED stand for, miles misra calculation, number of microbes deemed significant in a MSU sample, handwashing technique, e.t.c.

Anything out of the ordinary come up last year?

That stuff sounds about right, yeah. Can't really remember much other than it was really straightforward. Know the handbook backwards and you're laughing.

mardybumbum

Great. I know the handbook pretty well.
33% of our total microbiology score seems a lot for 30 mcq's but if they're as easy as Dr. Smith makes them out to be Im not complaining.

bythewoods

I do medicine, NOT ENGLISH.... AND I'M SLEEP DEPRIVED.

I'm so mad with myself for typing something so stupid, ha! LEAVE ME ALONE.

Larianne

mardybumbum wrote: »

Anatomy is a bitch like that. A lot of effort has to be put in to make any progress. If its any consolation, second year anatomy is harder again.

I frickin love anatomy! Find it easiest out of all my subjects. I dunno, I guess I've a good study thing going with one of my classmates.

Not looking forward to neuroanatomy though. :eek:

Hope the exams went well. 2 more to go for me. WHoOoO!

Tar.Aldarion

Larianne wrote: »

I frickin love anatomy!

Really?







































:pac:

Larianne

Tar.Aldarion wrote: »

Really?







































:pac:

Yes. I don't really get why one wouldn't.

Tar.Aldarion

Gerty

So em, when are repeats exactly?

Kylo Ren

Good luck everyone!

A Neurotic

Gerty wrote: »

So em, when are repeats exactly?

They begin the week of August 30th.

Mark200

Anyone know when the results will be? Doesn't seem to be any mention of it on the calendar.

Gerty

I think near the end of June as far as i've heard.

If you have to repeat, do you have to repeat them all?

poppy08

August 30th- sept. 10th.....well i'm assuming repeats is the colloquial term for supplement exams?

http://www.tcd.ie/vp-cao/teo/vpteoovex.php

...i'll be seeing you there by the looks of it