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Do Sophister students have Christmas Exams this year?

  • 24-09-2010 7:57pm
    #1
    Group Theory Rocks
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    The title says it all really.


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  • #2
    Jehuty42
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    No, it doesn't. Junior or Senior Sophister, and which course?

    My understanding is that, in general, there are no Christmas exams being run until the current system of Semesterisation has been allowed to settle for a few years. This means that you will probably have modules that finish up at Christmas time and will then be examined on in 5 or 6 months time in Summer- this happened to me last year and will happen again in the upcoming year.

    Having said that, some Schools do make exceptions for certain courses, so we need more information.


  • #3
    Group Theory Rocks
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    Junior Sophister Mathematics.


  • #4
    dabh
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    Group Theory Rocks wrote: »
    Junior Sophister Mathematics.

    Possibly 'term tests'? Have you checked out the course description for MA3481?

    Such things are probably more likely in modules taught by departments other than maths.


  • #5
    Group Theory Rocks
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    I'm doing that course yeah. I checked the course description, it says there's an exam at the end of Michaelmas Term which is worth 10% of the final grade. I guess that's 10% of MA3481, not 10% of (MA3481 + MA3482).


  • #6
    andrew
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    In terms of BESS at least, no BESS students have exams during the year. If they do have exams, they will be timetabled during what will normally be a lecture time. As such, all BESS students have a reading week. Since there's so much overlap in BESS lectures, this'll apply to loads of people in other courses I suppose, so basically if you've lectures with BESS people then you won't be having tests and if you do they'll be real short tests not during reading week.


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  • #7
    Group Theory Rocks
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    andrew wrote: »
    In terms of BESS at least, no BESS students have exams during the year. If they do have exams, they will be timetabled during what will normally be a lecture time. As such, all BESS students have a reading week. Since there's so much overlap in BESS lectures, this'll apply to loads of people in other courses I suppose, so basically if you've lectures with BESS people then you won't be having tests and if you do they'll be real short tests not during reading week.

    They had exams during reading week last year though didn't they?


  • #8
    andrew
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    Group Theory Rocks wrote: »
    They had exams during reading week last year though didn't they?

    Yeah. That's been changed though. This info comes from some Professors in the Econ Dept, I was working at Higher Options and was talking to a few of them there, and they mentioned it. As far as I know this info isn't on the online course outlines even (yet).


  • #9
    Group Theory Rocks
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    andrew wrote: »
    Yeah. That's been changed though. This info comes from some Professors in the Econ Dept, I was working at Higher Options and was talking to a few of them there, and they mentioned it. As far as I know this info isn't on the online course outlines even (yet).
    Coolaboola, I remember some BESS students I know were seriously pissed off with having reading week exams last year, I wouldn't blame them!


  • #10
    andrew
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    Group Theory Rocks wrote: »
    Coolaboola, I remember some BESS students I know were seriously pissed off with having reading week exams last year, I wouldn't blame them!

    In one way it was nice to be forced to study and actuallly make notes on material. In another more accurate way however, it was bollox.


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