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Exams Thread - For all your misery needs

  • 12-12-2012 1:54pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 130 ✭✭


    How are you guys set for the exams?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,810 ✭✭✭Seren_


    Changed the thread title to make it the official exams thread ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 130 ✭✭spartacus815


    ah ok thanks :)... let the misery begin bitches :P


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27 Kate08


    my timetable isn't so bad I suppose but this 100% essay for the 4th is leaving me with little time to study :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 577 ✭✭✭Paczini


    My timetable isn't too bad either.. I'm kinda set for French but ****ed for law :(


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,645 ✭✭✭Daemos


    Ah feck off with yere exam misery. I still have Geography Project misery to deal with first :mad:


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,540 ✭✭✭freeze4real


    My timetable sucks balls, I have finance on tuesday at 9.30 and business next day at 9.30. on thursday I have the 2 hardest subject on the say fecking day. Econometrics and bonds and capital markets FML.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,134 ✭✭✭Duddy


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27 Kate08


    ^

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,713 ✭✭✭✭Novella


    Exams make me so sad. :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27 Kate08


    Yeah they are hanging over your head all Christmas :( wish they were in December


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,463 ✭✭✭Kiwi_knock


    It is not a good sign when you look at your course outline and you can not remember half the stuff on it. The next few days are not going to be pleasant, studying a whole module I have little clue about.


  • Posts: 3,518 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    What are the pro's and cons of having exams after christmas?
    Would people prefer them before or after?
    I'd prefer them before so I could wind down and relax over the crimbo but on the other side I'd get little study done during the term.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,764 ✭✭✭mickstupp


    I prefer them after crimbo. Hate the ones in summer because I've only a week to get through all the material. Not enough time. But then I'm a very slow reader. At least with exams after crimbo I can always go into them feeling thoroughly prepared every time.

    Not stressed with these ones because I feel there's plenty of time to study. Always mad stressed for the summer ones because there's no time.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 577 ✭✭✭Paczini


    I prefer to have them after Christmas but there should be a study week between new year's day and exams.. like last year!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,715 ✭✭✭DB21


    Paczini wrote: »
    I prefer to have them after Christmas but there should be a study week between new year's day and exams.. like last year!

    Yeah, for some reason they felt the need to end the semester as early as they did. I'd rather we had lectures this week and then the extra week to study in January.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 577 ✭✭✭Paczini


    DB21 wrote: »
    Yeah, for some reason they felt the need to end the semester as early as they did. I'd rather we had lectures this week and then the extra week to study in January.
    Exactly... Next year it will be back to normal


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,494 ✭✭✭Columbia


    Exam season = invigilation season for me.

    Let the days and days of relentless boredom thorough vigilance commence. ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 699 ✭✭✭Boeing777


    I'm kind of worried about these exams. I just don't know what to expect! I've never been so unmotivated about exams in my life. I literally haven't done a decent study session yet and I can forget about studying next week because it's just not gonna happen.

    But ya, I'm not making my first set of Uni exams any easier for myself! :rolleyes:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,715 ✭✭✭DB21


    Boeing777 wrote: »
    I'm kind of worried about these exams. I just don't know what to expect! I've never been so unmotivated about exams in my life. I literally haven't done a decent study session yet and I can forget about studying next week because it's just not gonna happen.

    But ya, I'm not making my first set of Uni exams any easier for myself! :rolleyes:

    Believe me, the first year exams are grand :) It seems scary, but so long as you get some study in, and you've been paying attention in lectures, you'll get through.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,540 ✭✭✭freeze4real


    Guys can I email lecturers with exam style answers to assess it.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 455 ✭✭Jonah42


    Havent started studying yet. Got a damn thesis to do first.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,494 ✭✭✭Columbia


    Guys can I email lecturers with exam style answers to assess it.

    Almost certainly not. Depending on the subject your lecturer may not even have enough free time to read your actual exam.

    You could try sending a basic outline of an answer to a TA, they will try to give feedback. It could be one line, or three paragraphs, depending on the TA and how many panicked students suddenly demand help in the week before their exam. :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,645 ✭✭✭Daemos


    Well, the world didn't end yesterday. I guess I really will have to study for these exams


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,713 ✭✭✭✭Novella


    This is how it has went for me:

    5 weeks until exams:
    Okay, 5 weeks to go and 5 exams. 1 week of study time per exam. Great.

    4 weeks until exams:
    Okay, a month to go. Still loads of time. I'll make myself a study planner now, nice and organised.

    3 weeks until exams:
    Well, there's a week between my fourth exam and my fifth so I'll study for my fifth exam in that week. So I just need to study for these four now. I'll start now. Oh, somebody is talking to me on Facebook chat... I'll study after this...

    2 weeks until exams:
    I'm in work on Christmas Eve. I'll study then 'cause it'll be quiet in work and I'll be bored anyway.
    I COULD NOT POSSIBLY STUDY ON CHRISTMAS EVE!

    1 week until exams:
    A week to go, better study every single day. Oh, it's Friday though. Can't study on a Friday. Or a Saturday. Or a Sunday.
    DEFINITELY CAN'T STUDY ON NYE.

    :(:(:(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,989 ✭✭✭PictureFrame


    DB21 wrote: »
    Believe me, the first year exams are grand :) It seems scary, but so long as you get some study in, and you've been paying attention in lectures, you'll get through.

    uh-oh

    FÚCKED is not the word. Sick as a dog since last week, seriously considering looking for a medical cert because i've such fatigue and i'm exhausted, I didn't even go out over christmas I was so wrecked.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,715 ✭✭✭DB21


    Number Theory, you are a cruel mistress *cries in corner*


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 699 ✭✭✭Boeing777


    I am so so fúcked for maths and physics omg... :eek::( They're my first two exams and are on this Friday & Saturday. I genuinely have never been as ill-prepared for exams in my life. HELPPP :(

    Oh and a quick Q for science people; How exactly does continuous assessment work? I vaguely understand it but I'm not sure if you have to get a specific % in the written exam before it's added on or if it's added on regardless of what you get in the written exam.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,715 ✭✭✭DB21


    Boeing777 wrote: »
    Oh and a quick Q for science people; How exactly does continuous assessment work? I vaguely understand it but I'm not sure if you have to get a specific % in the written exam before it's added on or if it's added on regardless of what you get in the written exam.

    The CA is added on no matter what (Unless you failed that, in which case you'll have a technical fail).


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,836 ✭✭✭✭Pudsy33


    DB21 wrote: »

    The CA is added on no matter what (Unless you failed that, in which case you'll have a technical fail).

    Not necessarily true, there is no technical fails in maths or maths physics afaik.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 101 ✭✭peacock169


    @Boeing777,
    According to the Linear algebra lecturer, whatever you get from CA, you are sitting on and your score from the exam is added. In his course we had the Mid Term worth 10%, and 3 assignments worth 15%. Work out what you have and try to relax.
    I'd assume its the same format for the Calculus nonsense.
    Try to relax. You probably know more than you think. Just get over the line, you're probably planning to drop it at some stage i'd imagine, like everyone else! Good luck.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,810 ✭✭✭Seren_


    Hope the study is going well, and if it's not, there's still a full day before exams start so don't worry :P Good luck all of you.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,545 ✭✭✭Geo10


    uh-oh

    FÚCKED is not the word. Sick as a dog since last week, seriously considering looking for a medical cert because i've such fatigue and i'm exhausted, I didn't even go out over christmas I was so wrecked.

    Oh no, hope you get better soon PF! I'd say this is a horrible time to be feeling sick :( I'd say of you had a medical cert you could just do the repeats in August without having to pay (I can't imagine them asking you to pay given that they technically wouldn't be repeats for you). I hope you recover as quickly as possible, and maybe you'll be able to sit a few of the exams!

    I still haven't started studying and my first exam is tomorrow FML :/


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,645 ✭✭✭Daemos


    Okay it's not quite what I'm doing, but this is how I feel reading papers for tomorrow's exam

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    Also, the fcuk am I doing on Boards when I should be studying?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,989 ✭✭✭PictureFrame


    I feel ridiculously overwhelmed by these exams right now. I probably won't be sitting my Statistics for Psychology on Saturday due to illness (getting a Medical Cert. tomorrow I hope), hoping to sit my 2nd Psychology exam on Monday which has so much information and is really Science based (Bio/Developmental), this is bad because I struggled to get a B in Junior Cert Science and therefore didn't do Science for my Leaving, I more than likely have already failed one of my English Modules which was C.A. because I only got a D in my Essay worth 50% and will have lost a heap of marks due to absences (again being sick), andddddddd my second English Module is like German to me.

    FÚCKED is not even the word right now :rolleyes:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,836 ✭✭✭✭Pudsy33


    If anyone studying maths here could look at my post in the mathematics forum and give me a hand, I'd very much appreciate it :)

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056845450


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,713 ✭✭✭✭Novella


    I'm about to go into work until 3am and I have my first exam at half 9 in the morning. I have not put in the work this semester at all so if I pass, it'll be some kind of miracle. It will also be a miracle if I don't fall asleep on the table. So to anybody in Lower Loftus at 9.30am tomorrow, I'll be the very tired looking girl with her fingers crossed!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 587 ✭✭✭Planemo


    Pudsy33 wrote: »
    If anyone studying maths here could look at my post in the mathematics forum and give me a hand, I'd very much appreciate it :)

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056845450

    Vectors are on the same line if one is a multiple of the other.
    When t = 1 and u = -2 then it's the same point.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,836 ✭✭✭✭Pudsy33


    Planemo wrote: »
    Vectors are on the same line if one is a multiple of the other.
    When t = 1 and u = -2 then it's the same point.

    I was totally discounting the t and u, thanks a bunch!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,463 ✭✭✭Kiwi_knock


    I am feeling strangely confident about my exam tomorrow which is strange as I have not done too much study for it. It is probably going to end up going horrible but at the moment I am feeling happy enough about it, so at least it means I will not be up all night worrying about it.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,715 ✭✭✭DB21


    Best of luck to anyone starting tomorrow. I'll be the one cursing Number Theory outside Iontas at 2pm :pac:


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 52 ✭✭EWong


    I feel ridiculously overwhelmed by these exams right now. I probably won't be sitting my Statistics for Psychology on Saturday due to illness (getting a Medical Cert. tomorrow I hope), hoping to sit my 2nd Psychology exam on Monday which has so much information and is really Science based (Bio/Developmental), this is bad because I struggled to get a B in Junior Cert Science and therefore didn't do Science for my Leaving, I more than likely have already failed one of my English Modules which was C.A. because I only got a D in my Essay worth 50% and will have lost a heap of marks due to absences (again being sick), andddddddd my second English Module is like German to me.

    FÚCKED is not even the word right now :rolleyes:

    I literally cannot sympathize with you enough. I'm in the exact same boat too but there's literally no way I'm gonna be able to do the Psychology exams this term. I'm just too ill. I was just wondering though, do you know (or does anyone know) what channels you have to go through to request a deferral, even with the Medical Cert?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 50 ✭✭dougiex06


    Boeing777 wrote: »
    I am so so fúcked for maths and physics omg... :eek::( They're my first two exams and are on this Friday & Saturday. I genuinely have never been as ill-prepared for exams in my life. HELPPP :(


    I was literally just about to write this exact message. I resigned myself to a fail anyway but what way does it work, can i pass the subject itself if i do well in the other 3 modules this year or do all 4 modules have to be passed?

    PANICKING


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,715 ✭✭✭DB21


    dougiex06 wrote: »
    I was literally just about to write this exact message. I resigned myself to a fail anyway but what way does it work, can i pass the subject itself if i do well in the other 3 modules this year or do all 4 modules have to be passed?

    PANICKING

    YES! You can pass. So long as your subject mark averages out at 40%+ and NONE of your individual modules are below 25%, you will pass.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 50 ✭✭dougiex06


    DB21 wrote: »
    YES! You can pass. So long as your subject mark averages out at 40%+ and NONE of your individual modules are below 25%, you will pass.


    thanks for the reply, i was reading marks and standards and it was fairly confusing and with all the CA and the way everything has been laid out its hard to know what you have and what you ACTUALLY need to pass. sure i suppose only time will tell, not much i can do now anyway.

    thanks again


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,764 ✭✭✭mickstupp


    Good luck to everyone!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,713 ✭✭✭✭Novella


    Good luck to everybody beginning exams today or in the coming days! :)

    I'm very tired and this hasn't even began! :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,038 ✭✭✭✭PopePalpatine


    I had about an hour of sleep last night.

    Also, Bane has some words of advice:
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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,715 ✭✭✭DB21


    Elementary Number Theory (my toughest exam) out of the way. 6 days till the next one :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1 JF776


    EWong wrote: »
    I literally cannot sympathize with you enough. I'm in the exact same boat too but there's literally no way I'm gonna be able to do the Psychology exams this term. I'm just too ill. I was just wondering though, do you know (or does anyone know) what channels you have to go through to request a deferral, even with the Medical Cert?

    It's best to go through the Academic Advisory Office for stuff like this. From experience, it's pretty much impossible to defer exams until August. Instead what generally happens is that you're marked as absent from whatever exam(s) you miss. But, if you talk to the Academic Advisory Office, and supply them with documentation, they iron things out for you and you should be able to sit the repeat in August without having to pay and without having a cap put on your mark. You should ring the exams office and explain, but they'll probably advise you to go through the Academic Advisory.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,102 ✭✭✭DylanII


    Ugh, I hate exams.

    I'm not prepared at all. I haven't done any study yet... And I'm in work everyday until Monday.

    So the earliest ill get to study is Tuesday and my first exam is in Wednesday, then Thursday, then Friday, then Saturday :(

    To make it worse I have to get an average result if at least 65%


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