ucd exams

ddogsbollix

Im just wondering who organises the exam timetable? because i had 2 2,000 word essays to do in study week and i am after doing 4 of my core exmas in 5 days!!! its absolutely f**king ridiculous! so gonna write a strongly worried essay!!!!!

Chet T16

Its Mary at the student desk that organises them for the whole university, you must have done something to upset her (she works in the restaurant too)

Bit unfair for the lecturers to give you two essays on the last day of term

TheVoodoo

How long ago were you given the essays as a matter of interest?
Could be a lot worse. Over the past 5 years, i've had 6 exams in 3 day etc.. and many other combinations.

I had been puttin in work throughout the year, so it wasn't overly filled with cramming.

Horses for courses etc though.

parker kent

Can you imagine how complex timetabling is for a university the size of UCD? Just think of the sheer amount of degrees, programmes, modules etc. There are simply going to be students with timetables like yours OP. If they moved your exams, some other programme would be in the same situation. They do the best they can to ensure everybody gets an OK timetable (nobody gets 3 in one day etc).

Unfortunately for you, you are just one person in a University with thousands upon thousands of students. Somebody did not sit down and try to screw you over with your timetable. You are the same as everybody else.

FWIW assessment organise exams. The lecturers decide when the assignment deadlines are for essays. Assessment will not know when the many thousand essay deadlines are around campus.

ddogsbollix

we were given the essays the second last week of term... im just so fed up! working hard all your in mind term exams and all and then having to learn it all in a week!!!!!!
wel mary from restaurent is in for an ear full!!!!!!

parker kent

ddogsbollix wrote: »

working hard all your in mind term exams and all and then having to learn it all in a week!!!!!!

It is a 12 week semester, you are supposed to be studying all along. You get a week to revise, not learn for the first time.

TheVoodoo

What PK said ^.

Besidds, its all laid out in the module and course outline the days that assignments will be given out, and will be due. It's not like it was a suprise. It would have been known that there was 2 essays due in the final three weeks.

Plus, 3 weeks for 2 essays is not that bad, when put together with a solid revision plan.

Sorry if it sounds grouchy, but it's the truth.

The more effort one puts in throughout the year, the easier exams and assignments are.

parker kent

Yeah I'm not trying to be a knob or wind you up OP, but it is far from the worst example I have heard. You need to do the work during the 12 weeks and then the exams, deadlines etc are not as big a worry.

Good luck with them any way.

WeeBushy

parker kent wrote: »

Can you imagine how complex timetabling is for a university the size of UCD? Just think of the sheer amount of degrees, programmes, modules etc. There are simply going to be students with timetables like yours OP. If they moved your exams, some other programme would be in the same situation. They do the best they can to ensure everybody gets an OK timetable (nobody gets 3 in one day etc).

Unfortunately for you, you are just one person in a University with thousands upon thousands of students. Somebody did not sit down and try to screw you over with your timetable. You are the same as everybody else.

FWIW assessment organise exams. The lecturers decide when the assignment deadlines are for essays. Assessment will not know when the many thousand essay deadlines are around campus.

The introduction of horizons must have made the whole thing even more complex. One medicine student deciding to pick an Ag module as an elective and the whole timetable falls apart. I'm glad I'm not involved in organising it.

I presume its arranged using some kind of computer programme?

RMD

OP you're supposed to work throughout the semester rather than solely during the reading weak. As said, 3 weeks to write 2 2,000 word essays is more than doable. This isn't assessments fault, it's solely your own and now you're just looking for excuses.

parker kent

WeeBushy wrote: »

I presume its arranged using some kind of computer programme?

I'd say that gives them a solid draft anyway. But I'd imagine the human eye is needed to weed out little kinks like the horizons example you gave above. But I actually haven't a clue really. It must be a mammoth task.

Siuin

Can't be too much work if he's got time to be on boards :P

Witcher

ddogsbollix wrote: »

a strongly worried essay!!!!!

That poor essay..it must be a nervous wreck:pac:

HavingCrack

RMD wrote: »

OP you're supposed to work throughout the semester rather than solely during the reading weak. As said, 3 weeks to write 2 2,000 word essays is more than doable. This isn't assessments fault, it's solely your own and now you're just looking for excuses.

I knocked up 3000 words in two days before and got an A for it . Granted I had all my references and layout already done but still got it finished. 3 weeks is ample time for two essays.

When do the results usually come out?

Yuugib

From ucd.ie

SEMESTER ONE RESULTS Provisional Results will be available on SIS Student Web no later than 5pm on Wednesday, 18 January 2012 until 12 noon on Monday, 23 January 2012.
Final Results will be available on SIS Student Web no later than 5.00pm on Thursday, 9 February 2012.

beardedmaster

So... I'm guessing around 7am Wednesday morning.

Pandoras Twist

Summer 2010/11 - 1.30 am
Christmas 2010/11 - out at 7:30 am
Summer 2009/10 - out at 1:30 am
Summer 2008/2009 - out at 5 pm

Victoria.

Hopefully it'll be early this time! It would be an awful day freaking out until 5 :eek:

WoollyRedHat

So who is baraging in town on results day, come rain or shine? Will it be the disaster that was Black Monday? Personally, **** town.

[Jackass]

Uggggggggh, I've checked it about 6 times over the last couple of days just in case, sh*tting a brick.

You reckon around 1 / 2am? That would be sweet, I can't takes it no more!! :eek:

Conor108

Stupid question undeserving of a new thread - what week is this?

SRFCAndyC

Conor108 wrote: »

Stupid question undeserving of a new thread - what week is this?

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kkumk

im SO nervous. I always wait until the people on here say it's online because otherwise I know I'll have f5'd it so many times that I won't be paying attention when it actually comes up and I won't be mentally prepared!! So I'll be f5ing boards instead.

sweetiepie

I feel sick with nerves. I'm so certain that I failed

Slang_Tang

I haven't used UCD SIS to get results in a few years. Does it still crash every results day?

Rothmans

Slang_Tang wrote: »

I haven't used UCD SIS to get results in a few years. Does it still crash every results day?

Nope, just when you're trying to register for modules or campus accomodation :rolleyes:

spagboll

it's 1.30 am or go to bed for me this time round

kkumk

spagboll wrote: »

it's 1.30 am or go to bed for me this time round

That's what they alllll say. But the reality is they will come out at 1.45.

**Timbuk2**

spagboll wrote: »

it's 1.30 am or go to bed for me this time round

I did that in June for the last results - they came out 6 minutes after I went to bed, according to the times people got them on boards

kkumk

**Timbuk2** wrote: »

I did that in June for the last results - they came out 6 minutes after I went to bed, according to the times people got them on boards

The horror stories of results morning. Deepest sympathies.

Musefan

I downloaded an add-on for mozilla (Check 4 Change), that was mentioned on this forum at results time last year. I made my very own results alarm clock.

Step 1: Change your computer's settings, so that it doesn't "go to sleep" when you don't press a key for a while.

Step 2: Install Check 4 Change.

Step 3: Login to SIS web, go to the examination results page and highlight a bit of text that will change when results come up. I like to highlight "Semester GPA". If you highlight everything, when the time changes in the top right hand corner of the screen, you will be alerted for no reason.

Step 4: Right click on the text, and click Check 4 Change. Set the time limit that you want the page to refresh within. I like 10 seconds, because I am a nervous wreck.

Step 5. Click on the settings for Check 4 Change when you right click again. Click play pop up sound, or something to that effect.

Step 6: The tab of the page should now have a little blue and green "C4C" pic with a countdown timer.

Step 7: Put your laptop volume up to full capacity.

Step 8: Go to bed, and enjoy being woken to the sounds of David Bowie shouting "Ch-Ch Changes", as you shakily look at the horror that is to unfold.

Step 9: Repeat for further semesters, until the sound of David Bowie induces a panic attack.

**Timbuk2**

Does that work? Wouldn't SIS eventually log you out automatically?

Musefan

I'm not sure! It seems to be holding up now for about 45 minutes!

kkumk

Musefan wrote: »

I downloaded an add-on for mozilla (Check 4 Change), that was mentioned on this forum at results time last year. I made my very own results alarm clock.

Step 1: Change your computer's settings, so that it doesn't "go to sleep" when you don't press a key for a while.

Step 2: Install Check 4 Change.

Step 3: Login to SIS web, go to the examination results page and highlight a bit of text that will change when results come up. I like to highlight "Semester GPA". If you highlight everything, when the time changes in the top right hand corner of the screen, you will be alerted for no reason.

Step 4: Right click on the text, and click Check 4 Change. Set the time limit that you want the page to refresh within. I like 10 seconds, because I am a nervous wreck.

Step 5. Click on the settings for Check 4 Change when you right click again. Click play pop up sound, or something to that effect.

Step 6: The tab of the page should now have a little blue and green "C4C" pic with a countdown timer.

Step 7: Put your laptop volume up to full capacity.

Step 8: Go to bed, and enjoy being woken to the sounds of David Bowie shouting "Ch-Ch Changes", as you shakily look at the horror that is to unfold.

Step 9: Repeat for further semesters, until the sound of David Bowie induces a panic attack.

but....... what about Boards?

TDOie

**Timbuk2** wrote: »

Does that work? Wouldn't SIS eventually log you out automatically?

It shouldn't. It logs you out when your session expires due to a period of inactivity. With the plugin constantly refreshing you're never "inactive".

Musefan

kkumk wrote: »

but....... what about Boards?

I would wager, at some point, that one might have to look at SISWEB to find out if results are out, and then post it on boards. I am cutting out the middle-man

Killer Pigeon

For agony aunts and mutual masturbation, click here.

Musefan

Er... is SISWEB down?

Design_Dude

Musefan wrote: »

Er... is SISWEB down?

Nope

dr gonzo

I assume we're all settled in here for the next hour and a half or so.


...anyone got any good jokes?

Clegg

I received an e-mail from blackboard informing me that the results for one of my exams was attached....

There was no attachment. Thats slightly annoying.

Pandoras Twist

I've a few. They're thoroughly offensive though. How low can the tone go?

sweetiepie

low. I need a good laugh.

If you fail a resit, should they have contacted you about resitting the lectures which started last Monday? Feel sick at the thought:(

dr gonzo

Clegg wrote: »

I received an e-mail from blackboard informing me that the results for one of my exams was attached....

There was no attachment. Thats slightly annoying.

If you go into the module -> tools -> my grades. It might be in there. I got one result back early through blackboard as well. Hopefully it doesnt change today because it was alright.

Design_Dude

Heres one for yous....

A man is lying in a hospital bed with an oxygen mask over his mouth. A young nurse enters his room to sponge his face and hands. "Nurse," he mumbles from behind the mask, "Are my testicles black?" Embarrassed, the young nurse replies, "I don't know Mr. Jones, I'm only here to wash your face and hands." He struggles again to ask, "Nurse, are my testicles black?" Again the nurse replies, "I can't tell. I'm only here to wash your face and hands." The head nurse walks by and sees the man getting a little distraught, so she marches over to find out what's wrong. "Nurse," he mumbles, "are my testicles black?" The head nurse whips back the sheets, pulls down the man's pajamas, moves his penis out of the way, has a good look, pulls up the pajamas and says, "There's nothing wrong with them." Frustrated at this, the man pulls off his oxygen mask and asks again, "I said, are my test results back?!"

Killer Pigeon

Are they up yet? x lots
Poster banned

Pierce_1991

Made this for the Rage thread last night. Hopefully it won't com totally true

Killer Pigeon

NIGHTMARES, NIGHTMARES!! PLENTY OF NIGHTMARES!!

spagboll

Those last few posts had no consideration for people on smart phones.

What did the ocean say to the other ocean?




















Nothing




































They just waved

Rothmans

How did the hipster burn his mouth?

Because he ate his pizza before it was cool

:pac: :pac: :pac: :pac: :pac: