Exams Thread - For all your misery needs

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.

Geo10

PictureFrame wrote: »

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

Daemos

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



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

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:

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

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!

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.

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!

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.

DB21

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

EWong

PictureFrame wrote: »

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?

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

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.

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

mickstupp

Good luck to everyone!

Novella

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

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

PopePalpatine

I had about an hour of sleep last night.

Also, Bane has some words of advice:

DB21

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

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.

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%

PictureFrame

GAH my first EVER college exam is on in 12 hours 42 minutes.. I'm beyond nervous.. What's worse is that it's my worst subject by far, and i'm hoping to pass having done a couple of hours study today and working on common sense tomorrow. I dunno if i'll pass.. My train is at 7 tomorrow so i'm studying until 8am and then have a study group planned with a friend from about 8.40 until about 9.15am, fingers crossed for me guys!

Boeing777

Well, I found my first college exam quite frightening if I'm honest :pac: Those superintendents or whatever their ~official~ title is, were so off-putting! They were so unnerving and intimidating. Checking peoples pencil cases, calculators etc. I know that's standard procedure but jeez.. :eek:

PictureFrame

So the module I have been constantly giving out since starting my Psychology degree was a ridiculously easy exam? What the ****.. The couple of people who seem to be the top of the group couldn't do the Independent t-test and I could? Something is weird. Must of been that prayer my granny said for me at Mass!

Boeing777 wrote: »

Well, I found my first college exam quite frightening if I'm honest :pac: Those superintendents or whatever their ~official~ title is, were so off-putting! They were so unnerving and intimidating. Checking peoples pencil cases, calculators etc. I know that's standard procedure but jeez.. :eek:

EXACT same Niall! I was so scared they'd find something on my calculator, even though there was nothing to find :L So thorough like! :O.. They didn't check me because all I had was a pen and my calculator.. Thoroughly unpreparedness for the win. :P

Novella

Did you think the PS104 exam was ridiculously easy? I thought it was pretty much like the past papers. I didn't dislike it, but unfortunately I wouldn't go so far as to say it was easy for me.

PictureFrame

Novella wrote: »

Did you think the PS104 exam was ridiculously easy? I thought it was pretty much like the past papers. I didn't dislike it, but unfortunately I wouldn't go so far as to say it was easy for me.

I had studied Q.1, 2 & 3 all day the day before so I thought it was lovely! :') I've heard a lot of different valuations for the T-score floating around though, I got 2.267 (2.27) which was statistically significant at p<0.05 with 18 degrees of freedom but maybe I was off? What did you get?

PopePalpatine

My EP101 exam was much easier than MT101S.

Boeing777

PopePalpatine wrote: »

My EP101 exam was much easier than MT101S.

Completely agree! Couldn't believe it!

Toshi101

such a bad time to get the winter vomiting bug

Novella

PictureFrame wrote: »

I had studied Q.1, 2 & 3 all day the day before so I thought it was lovely! :') I've heard a lot of different valuations for the T-score floating around though, I got 2.267 (2.27) which was statistically significant at p<0.05 with 18 degrees of freedom but maybe I was off? What did you get?

I'm glad to hear it went well for you because I know you've been sick and were worried about it. Ooohh, I can't remember what I got to be honest! Whatever it was, was statistically significant though 'cause I do remember writing that part down! :pac: I'm pretty certain I got the actual answer wrong. I didn't do any t-test practice at all. As long as I pass, I'll be happy enough 'cause I HATED that module!

CSSE09

Boeing777 wrote: »

Well, I found my first college exam quite frightening if I'm honest :pac: Those superintendents or whatever their ~official~ title is, were so off-putting! They were so unnerving and intimidating. Checking peoples pencil cases, calculators etc. I know that's standard procedure but jeez.. :eek:

As you move up the years you won't mind them at all, I thought the senior invigilator was standing very close and looking in my direction, I held up my calculator and mouthed need to check it? Cue a no no no no no your fine. Back to my work so