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Credits for 2nd year

  • 28-03-2011 11:32pm
    #1
    Wardie23
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33 ✭


    1st year student in DIT343. Passed all my exams at christmas and just got my timetable for end of 1st year exams. Rumour has it that you are able to lose 10 credits and stil enter 2nd year is this true? Basically have 6 exams in total, 4 are 5 credits and two of them are 10 credits. So a total of 40 credits. Added with the other 20 at christmas, thats 60. So do I only need 50 to enter 2nd year? I ask because theres not a hope in hell im passing Accounting(as our majority of people) so will no doubt not get them 10 credits. And if so how does this work? Even if I do fail because I've enough credits I wont have to repeat? Just a tad confused. Replies appreciated, cheers.


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  • #2
    68 lost souls
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,999 ✭✭✭68 lost souls


    Best to try your best first time around. If you fail more than 10 credits you have to repeat the year. If you fail 10 credits or less you will have to repeat those subjects but can carry them into second year but that means you have to do them on top of your seconed year subjects. If you fail 1 ten credit module you risk repeating if you fail just one other subject. There is still plenty of time until the exams, get the head down.


  • #3
    Wardie23
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33 ✭Wardie23


    Unfortunately not as easy as that. Lecturer we have is shocking, class have complained, only to be told by our head of year, "Ye we have had complaints about him before". Nothing was done. Anyway we have an accounting tutorial with a seperate lecturer so some go to that. But the lecturer set the exam as the final exam only being worth 40-50% and the rest being decided by continuous assesment. As nobody went majority will already be down 40%. Stupid on our part I know. I think its set in stone that I'll be failing, so will just knuckle down and make sure I pass my repeat in August!


  • #4
    Naikon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,564 ✭✭✭Naikon


    Wardie23 wrote: »
    Unfortunately not as easy as that. Lecturer we have is shocking, class have complained, only to be told by our head of year, "Ye we have had complaints about him before". Nothing was done. Anyway we have an accounting tutorial with a seperate lecturer so some go to that. But the lecturer set the exam as the final exam only being worth 40-50% and the rest being decided by continuous assesment. As nobody went majority will already be down 40%. Stupid on our part I know. I think its set in stone that I'll be failing, so will just knuckle down and make sure I pass my repeat in August!

    Sorry, but did you not expect this before coming to DIT? It's a public sector Institution. Of course some people are willing to slack. Don't even bother complaining, because you have to answer to a brick wall.
    Take your money elsewhere would be the only practical piece of advice, because Unions and lack of accountablity can't be solved too handy. Once you get past the fact SOME of these workers are willing to
    abuse the system to no end, you learn to focus on working around these problems. Honestly, the place isn't that bad, just be aware of bad lecturing, which happens in every educational institution no doubt.


  • #5
    68 lost souls
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,999 ✭✭✭68 lost souls


    Wardie23 wrote: »
    But the lecturer set the exam as the final exam only being worth 40-50% and the rest being decided by continuous assesment. As nobody went majority will already be down 40%.

    This I see a prblem with. The course document lays out how all modules are assesed. It will have had to have been divided up that way and if you didnt bother going to calsses or doing CAs then its no one fault but your own. Wether the lecturer is good or not has no bearing of not wether you go or not or do CAs or not. No one to blame but yourselves.


  • #6
    Wardie23
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33 ✭Wardie23


    68 lost souls wrote: »
    This I see a prblem with. The course document lays out how all modules are assesed. It will have had to have been divided up that way and if you didnt bother going to calsses or doing CAs then its no one fault but your own. Wether the lecturer is good or not has no bearing of not wether you go or not or do CAs or not. No one to blame but yourselves.


    I do like how you just left out the bit where I said it was a stupid idea. Well done.


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