Exam time thread

RolandIRL

Seeing as this worked well before, let's start another exam thread

So how's your exam study going so far? Finding it very hard to settle down and dig into the study. Finding loads of distractions to keep me away from study

Have a morning exam tomorrow, thankfully it's on campus so not too far to go, but fecking out in Leisureland on Wednesday morning :mad:

So how about the rest of ye?

Nailz

RolandIRL wrote: »

Have a morning exam tomorrow, thankfully it's on campus so not too far to go, but fecking out in Leisureland on Wednesday morning :mad:

Yup, as said in the ‘Official Bitch...’ thread I have on of these the Thursday after next, not the least bit impressed, particularly as I live on the Headford Road. I pity those who live further out to the east of the city and have an early morning exam in Leisureland.

cgpg5

Always find the Christmas exams tougher to study for than Summer mainly because the exams seem to creep up on you a lot quicker... Just can't wait to finish at this stage roll on the 15th!

MadYaker

So I've been trying to study for the past week or so. Im the worlds worst procrastinator. Not just with study, it affects several aspects of my life. I have my first exam at 9:30 tomorrow. To be honest at this stage it will be a miracle if I pass.

reap-a-rat

Exam at 9.30 tomorrow in Leisureland myself, first of three but fortunately enough I finish on Wednesday so that's one thing to look forward to Tomorrow's exam is my least favourite so I'll be glad to get it over with no matter how it goes! Seriously looking forward to some relaxing time after this semester though, that's for sure

Oh, and "Best of luck to ye all!":D

RolandIRL

As i always say, procrastination is the key to success, so procrastinate right away, don't put it off

WallyGUFC

RolandIRL wrote: »

Seeing as this worked well before, let's start another exam thread

So how's your exam study going so far? Finding it very hard to settle down and dig into the study. Finding loads of distractions to keep me away from study

Have a morning exam tomorrow, thankfully it's on campus so not too far to go, but fecking out in Leisureland on Wednesday morning :mad:

So how about the rest of ye?

You don't happen to be doing Comparative Economic Thought in Leisureland on Wednesday?

RolandIRL

Nope Methods of maths physics (hear that, CosmicFrog? your favourite module :pac:)

skinny90

accountn tomarrow in the kingfisher at 9.30...all nighter it is by the looks of things:)

GEasy

Is there a bus going from campus out to leisure land?

RolandIRL

LakesKeane wrote: »

Is there a bus going from campus out to leisure land?

Exams office isn't running buses, but these are the timetables for the Bus Eireann and City Direct buses heading out that way (from SU email)

http://www.buseireann.ie/pdf/1202229915-Galway1.pdf
http://www.citydirectgalway.ie/timetable.htm

First exam went alright. Few blanks but feck it, did enough to pass

GEasy

RolandIRL wrote: »

Exams office isn't running buses, but these are the timetables for the Bus Eireann and City Direct buses heading out that way (from SU email)

http://www.buseireann.ie/pdf/1202229915-Galway1.pdf
http://www.citydirectgalway.ie/timetable.htm

First exam went alright. Few blanks but feck it, did enough to pass

thanks

TheCosmicFrog

RolandIRL wrote: »

Nope Methods of maths physics (hear that, CosmicFrog? your favourite module :pac:)

RolandIRL

TheCosmicFrog wrote: »

http://i.imgur.com/MsLIy.png

BhoscaCapall

RolandIRL wrote: »

Exams office isn't running buses, but these are the timetables for the Bus Eireann and City Direct buses heading out that way (from SU email)

http://www.buseireann.ie/pdf/1202229915-Galway1.pdf
http://www.citydirectgalway.ie/timetable.htm

First exam went alright. Few blanks but feck it, did enough to pass

They are spectacularly unhelpful tbh. Does anyone know how long it takes the bus to get from Eyre Square to the Hospital? Do both the CD and BÉ buses stop outside the university pharmacy?

edit: Been looking at the maps on here http://www.galwaytransport.info/2008/12/summary-map-galw-ay-city-services.html
Do I actually have to go from Newcastle back out to Eyre Square, just to get a bus to Salthill, which will get me in an hour before my exam? Is this for real?

RolandIRL

BhoscaCapall wrote: »

They are spectacularly unhelpful tbh. Does anyone know how long it takes the bus to get from Eyre Square to the Hospital? Do both the CD and BÉ buses stop outside the university pharmacy?

http://www.galwaytransport.info/
Try this site either. There's maps for a lot of the bus services (might not be all of them though)

CarefulNow

Anyone roughly know how long it takes to get from Eyre Square to Salthill on a bus in the morning?

keithb93

CarefulNow wrote: »

Anyone roughly know how long it takes to get from Eyre Square to Salthill on a bus in the morning?

About 10 minutes.
Had my first exam today with another at 2:30 pm tomorrow and of course I left my I.D. in the exam hall :mad:

meeka

Yeah it shouldn't take longer than 10 or 15 mins to get out to salthill, however I wouldn't really rely on the bus eireann service so leave plenty of time to spare.

RolandIRL wrote: »

Nope Methods of maths physics (hear that, CosmicFrog? your favourite module :pac:)

Is Petri still teaching that? That course was nice!

I had Solid State Physics this morning... need I say more? bleh.

RolandIRL

No it's Michel this year. Only nice if you ate Frobenius method and drank Bessel's Equation, which i say i vomited out this year :pac:

Solid State? I know someone who had this morning as well...hmmm you probably know them

Hibbeler

Would anyone know the situation with parking down in salthill? All the rest of my exams are out them parts (3 in leisureland and 1 in galway bay hotel) and myself and a few mates were planning on doing a liftshare/carpool. Can the car park in leisureland be fairly full round exam time?

nobbo

Quick question, what happens if ya just dont show up for an exam?

Nailz

nobbo wrote: »

Quick question, what happens if ya just dont show up for an exam?

You fail. Well, unless you've completed continuous assessment that weights greater than 40% of the overall mark, having done very well - if not perfect in it. But that's only the case if you do not study in Cairnes School of Business, Public Policy and Law.

What else would you expect in all honesty?

nobbo

Nailz wrote: »

You fail. Well, unless you've completed continuous assessment that weights greater than 40% of the overall mark, having done very well - if not perfect in it. But that's only the case if you do not study in Cairnes School of Business, Public Policy and Law.

What else would you expect in all honesty?

I didn't expect anything else. My housemate was sick for part of the semester, and was just curious about the repeat if ya dont show up for an exam.

Raging_Ninja

have him defer the exam in that case, that way he won't have to pay for a repeat (I think).

Raging_Ninja

pwned my exam this morning. had to sit it in the aula as the exams office forgot i was doing the subject and failed to allocate a space to me when they were doing the timetables.

BhoscaCapall

I've heard that you cannot sit the repeat if you don't show up for the initial exam. While it does seem rather silly to force students to sit in the exam hall doing nothing for an hour, when they could be studying for other exams, I wouldn't be at all surprised if this were the case.

meeka

RolandIRL wrote: »

No it's Michel this year. Only nice if you ate Frobenius method and drank Bessel's Equation, which i say i vomited out this year :pac:

Solid State? I know someone who had this morning as well...hmmm you probably know them

Ah the 3rd year course, I was thinking of the 2nd year one.. Michel's awesome! And yup, I'd surely know whoever it is you know in 4th physics, there are less than 20 of us in the class :P ..who knows, I might know you myself, hah..

RolandIRL

i don't do physics anymore. gave that up this year...though i still wear the Physics Soc hoodie and hang around the 3rd year physics crowd :pac:

Foxx92

Great Timing for the past papers page "Important Notice: Because of planned upgrade work, this service will be unavailable from: Friday, 09/12/2011 at: 12:00 to Monday, 12/12/2011 at: 9:00 ."

BhoscaCapall

Foxx92 wrote: »

Great Timing for the past papers page "Important Notice: Because of planned upgrade work, this service will be unavailable from: Friday, 09/12/2011 at: 12:00 to Monday, 12/12/2011 at: 9:00 ."

This won't affect me as I already downloaded all my exam papers, but it has me gobsmacked all the same. I thought that the people in the Fees office taking holiday leave every August was one of the stupidest things I've seen NUIG do, but this is amazing.

TheCosmicFrog

Is anyone else of the opinion that there's a serious lack of talent among the invigilators this year? That said, all of my exams so far have been outside the college. Maybe that's where they're keeping them...

cat_xx

TheCosmicFrog wrote: »

Is anyone else of the opinion that there's a serious lack of talent among the invigilators this year? That said, all of my exams so far have been outside the college. Maybe that's where they're keeping them...

I actually thought about this today.. obviously did it not to distract us! :cool:

Ruire

TheCosmicFrog wrote: »

Is anyone else of the opinion that there's a serious lack of talent among the invigilators this year? That said, all of my exams so far have been outside the college. Maybe that's where they're keeping them...

I've had the same people as I've had for the past three years.

More of the same, ah well. There's always next semester.

RolandIRL

Had a lovely walk out to salthill today, at least it wasn't pissing rain though, but leisureland was freezing >_< methods paper was nice enough (hear that, Frog?) :P fumbled one question, started an extra one but got caught out on time. think i got enough down to get a decent mark though

now onwards to my hardest exam tomorrow...despairing a bit over it since it's really complicated and head-wrecking.

EEm

Ye'r lucky over in NUI having ye'r exams pre christmas. After xmas exams suck!!!!

Reillyman

RolandIRL wrote: »

methods paper was nice enough (hear that, Frog?) :P fumbled one question, started an extra one but got caught out on time. think i got enough down to get a decent mark though

2nd year methods yeah? In the Bailey Allen?

RolandIRL

3rd year methods out in salthill

GEasy

RolandIRL wrote: »

3rd year methods out in salthill

Out of curiosity , methods of what?

RolandIRL

maths physics

GEasy

RolandIRL wrote: »

maths physics

You doing comp sci? Engineering ? Maths ? Goodluck with it anyways

nobbo

The methods paper(2nd year) was soft enough, yet I heard people complaining about it...

BhoscaCapall

First exam ever in Leisureland this morning. Apart from the general weirdness of having a smell of chlorine in the air while sitting an exam, I thought it was grand, not cold or anything.

musical.x

TheCosmicFrog wrote: »

Is anyone else of the opinion that there's a serious lack of talent among the invigilators this year? That said, all of my exams so far have been outside the college. Maybe that's where they're keeping them...

is the ginger,curly haired invigilator still around? he always wore a leather jacket. he's easy on the eyes

had an exam in lesiureland too. it wasnt cold but wtf is up with people having to sit on the stage? delighted i wasnt one of them. the lights up there are blinding.

Reillyman

nobbo wrote: »

The methods paper(2nd year) was soft enough, yet I heard people complaining about it...

Yeah I found it allright, got out greens theorem and all of question 4. The question 3 was harder than usual due to the proof in part (b), in hindsight I probably should have done question 1 instead of 3 but I'd say I should be allright anyway.

What course are you doing?

RolandIRL

LakesKeane wrote: »

You doing comp sci? Engineering ? Maths ? Goodluck with it anyways

*wonders why so interested* :P
i'm science anyway :P

Another exam today, didn't go as badly as i thought. didn't get it all finished but enough for a good mark overall when coupled with the CA. Off now til tuesday and then i'm finished \o/

meeka

2 done, 2 to go. This morning's exam wasn't as disastrous as I'd anticipated, either. Even after getting a grand total of 2 hours sleep last night...

nobbo

Reillyman wrote: »

Yeah I found it allright, got out greens theorem and all of question 4. The question 3 was harder than usual due to the proof in part (b), in hindsight I probably should have done question 1 instead of 3 but I'd say I should be allright anyway.

What course are you doing?

Science, changed from a different course so had to go back into first year.

evanSpiddal

Currently studying for my second last exam which is at 9.30 tomorrow morning! Damn final year exams, actually have to do well in them!

Also damn NUIG scheduling, 4 exams jammed into 5 days then the final one a week later (next Friday!)

Nailz

Is it unusual to have 6 exams in 5 days at all? 2 Monday, 2 Wednesday, 1 Thursday (9:30 in Leisureland), and the last one Friday afternoon? I found it to be bizarrely crammed.

BhoscaCapall

Nailz wrote: »

Is it unusual to have 6 exams in 5 days at all? 2 Monday, 2 Wednesday, 1 Thursday (9:30 in Leisureland), and the last one Friday afternoon? I found it to be bizarrely crammed.

It's absurd but not unusual. Usually worse in the summer though. It becomes more of an endurance test than an academic one. Yet there are people who still think written exams are accurate measures of intelligence.