Supplemental Timetables?

Tears in Rain

When do these come out? I'm going supplemental here not knowing...

Larianne

From the website:

Timetables for the Supplemental Examination session will be published in early August.

http://www.tcd.ie/TSM/current/exam/supplemental.php

http://www.tcd.ie/vpcao/administration/examinations/examination-timetables.php

Tears in Rain

cool, thanks

Grimebox

I usually got them around a month before they are due to be sat

Lisandro

Mind if I ask which module? Some of those exams had nasty curveballs.

Tears in Rain

Lisandro wrote: »

Mind if I ask which module? Some of those exams had nasty curveballs.

Several unfortunately, overall less to do with curveballs than my inability to remember theorems and questions in my head satisfactorily without intuitively understanding the underlying concepts.

Complex, both halves of Mechanics and the second half of Simms, of which the only one I'm particularly ashamed to have failed is Complex, since it's the subject which is most easily understood, even if it has the least predictable questions.

Lisandro

Tears in Rain wrote: »

Several unfortunately, overall less to do with curveballs than my inability to remember theorems and questions in my head satisfactorily without intuitively understanding the underlying concepts.

Complex, both halves of Mechanics and the second half of Simms, of which the only one I'm particularly ashamed to have failed is Complex, since it's the subject which is most easily understood, even if it has the least predictable questions.

Complex was marked harshly I think, when I looked over my script, I got barely any marks in the continuity of simple functions question despite the fact my answer was similar to the treatment given in Stewart and Tall.

To be honest, I'm not convinced that that many people properly understand mechanics, the stuff Frolov did with us in the second half of the year only really began to make sense to me around June or so. The questions are however, very predictable yet at the same time very difficult.

Ah yes, the second half of Simms' module. That contained some really abstract stuff. The skew-symmetriser is the easiest to get full marks in.

ride-the-spiral

Second year looks scary.

Maybe_Memories

Lisandro wrote: »

To be honest, I'm not convinced that that many people properly understand mechanics, the stuff Frolov did with us in the second half of the year only really began to make sense to me around June or so. The questions are however, very predictable yet at the same time very difficult.

Ah yes, the second half of Simms' module. That contained some really abstract stuff. The skew-symmetriser is the easiest to get full marks in.

I failed both Mechanics as well. It's only now I'm beginning to understand it from spending the last few weeks working through Landau's book and Goldstein's. Although Frolov tends to approach some parts from a more differential geometry point of view (all that stuff about symplectic forms etc) which aren't really covered in either books. Ah well.

Simms marking really makes no sense. I was completely sure I failed the first half, considering I only knew about three definitions properly, didn't do the inverse function theorem, screwed up my chain rule, and only half did the part on the implicit function theorem. Yet I got 40% on the dot. Ah well, I'm not complaining.