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UCD access course

  • 19-08-2013 3:35pm
    #1
    Puddleduck
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,183 ✭✭✭


    Hey all.

    I applied for this back in June and got an email today telling me about the workshops Ive to attend next week. Im a bit nervous since my maths is really poor. Can anyone tell me what I should expect? Do I attend all of the workshops or just one?

    Thanks


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  • #2
    shamhead
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3 ✭shamhead


    Hi,

    I did the course 2 years ago. We were asked to come in for one main workshop first. It was a lecture on general physics. No previous knowledge was needed. The professor covered 5 different topics such as gravity and how smoke detectors work. Cant really remember the rest. When he's finished you are given about an hour to write an essay on what you just heard. You are allowed to take notes and use them. Its really just to see if you can pay attention, take in, and then write about something you just learned so the topic of it isn't that important.

    After that i got called for an interview and maths test. I think at that stage your place on the course will be fairly certain unless you really mess up the interview. Everyone i saw taking the test got the course.

    I knew very little for the maths test. Its more to gauge what level everyone is at so the teacher will know where to start from so i wouldn't be too worried about it.

    The format may have completely changed by now so the best thing to do is just ring in and ask. Everyone in the office is very helpful.

    Doing the access course is one of the best decisions i ever made so best of luck with it. Anymore questions let me know.


  • #3
    SmoothER
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14 ✭SmoothER


    Hiya Puddleduck,

    I done the access course in 2010, theres videos on the website for maths:
    from the website, watch them over and over and over again and ull be grand.

    The UCD Maths Support Centre has some links to excellent maths videos, some of which are relevant to these tests, and will help you prepare for the maths modules on the Access to Science & Engineering course.

    See www.ucd.ie/msc Look at the index menu on the left hand side of the Maths Support Centre front page and click on:

    "On line Tutorials 1 and Self Assessment tests."

    This opens up a page with tests and videos. The videos most appropriate for the Access tests are;
    1. Rules of arithmetic.
    2. Substitution.
    3. Straight Line.
    4. Solving quadratic equations.

    Enjoy!


    Its really a great course, theres no way Id of made it past Christmas of 1st year without it!


  • #4
    Leopold.
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 87 ✭✭Leopold.


    He's good http://www.youtube.com/user/patrickJMT


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