Easy first exam wh00t

Steveire

My first exam went great. what about the rest of you?

kittenkiller

Congrats!

Don't think anyone else's out & online yet afaik.
Kas had 1 this morning, he should be out soon.

Congratulations, may the rest of them go just as well!

Steveire

You didn't have one today kit?

kittenkiller

Nope!
Good thing too, cuz i'm still at home in my dressing gown!
Don't think the bus driver would've stopped for me!

Don't start til thurs & then fri & then a bit of a break.

Steveire

Well anyway, here's to my next eleven exams :eek:

kittenkiller

ELEVEN!?!
Jesus man, what are you doing?


I have 4!

Vainglory

Mine was fine...things I gambled on came up, answered on the Plantations, Poynings Law and the Reformation in Ireland.

One down, eight to go

arbeitsscheuer

Mine was sh*t... But then I expected that - the worst moment was just before we went in, and my mate said "God I hope Poyning's Law comes up, I know it so well"... I believe my exact response was "F**k. I'd forgotten that."

And, of course, it came up. B0ll0cks.

I left after an hour and a half. And I'd run out of stuff to write after an hour. But hey, at least my 100% record of being the first to leave my section of the exam hall remains undefeated!!!!

I was proudly wearin my England shirt today as I thought it would be an ironic choice of clothing for a course of Irish history. Nice touch eh?



P.S. I'm sad, I know. So don't bother pointing that out. :rolleyes:

Vainglory

What other questions did ya do, Seb?

blondie83

Mine was...meh. One of the sections was nice, and one was very much not nice! I think its gonna be a 60% job or something along those lines - coulda been better, coulda been worse, no point thinking about them now anyway, got to focus on the next one now! :cool:

boneless

I done the 2nd year history today too... I could kiss Tom Bartlett!! The war in society question was just perfect. BTW, don't tell Bartlett.

OLD AND PROUD!!

Chinafoot

like Vainglory i gambled and only studied 2 questions for my history exam.....both of which came up
documents question was sooo waffly!

theCzar

blondie83 wrote:

Mine was...meh. One of the sections was nice, and one was very much not nice! I think its gonna be a 60% job or something along those lines - coulda been better, coulda been worse, no point thinking about them now anyway, got to focus on the next one now! :cool:

thought it was bit of a bastard myself, i'd say i'm in that 60% bracket as well. i was hoping to do really well in C.S.

As i'm writing this, i realise i don't know what my next exam is, just that it's on saturday morning. I should probably look into that...

Mr.Nice Guy

Had my first philosophy exam today. I actually did alot better than I thought I would. I stayed until the end as well and I gave it my best. Out of the four questions, I answered two very well but the other two were average at best but hopefully it will be enough to help me scrape a pass. A big thank you to blondie83 whose advice on the exam situation earlier really helped me out. Cheers.

PS I did end up sitting beside two very nice looking ladies but sadly they finsihed before I did. They missed out on hearing my great line, are you ready - "So, how did the exam go"? Oh how smitten they would have been...

Anyway one exam down. Bring on Thursday!

pretty*monster

One down seven to go

But philosophy 1 was what I was most prepared for and I still didn't do all that great. Damn

arbeitsscheuer

Oh sweet jesus...

Politics 1 this mornin. Wrote 1 paragraph (impressive as I know f**k all about this course) and then handed in my paper after 30 minutes, convinced that I had done the same last year...

Thing is...

YOU AREN'T ALLOWED LEAVE UNTIL AN HOUR HAS PASSED! F**k.

The Invigilators musta been sh*te last yr, I swear I left all my exams after half an hour. But anyway, I'd already handed in my paper, so they let me hang around in the invigilator's office thing. I... Am... A... Dumbass.

Anyway, I realised it was better that way. I preferred sittin there, listenin to my discman, not a bother on me, to f**kin sittin there like a lemon in the exam hall waitin for the hour to come up.

Incidentally, not only am not a stupid fresher who's mistake could be excused on the basis that this is the first time I'd done UCD exams, being a 2nd year as I am, but I also repeated last year, so I've actually done this twice already anyway. Such an Idiot.

kasintahan

Why don't they let you leave at anytime?

I understand it might be distracting if you have people leaving their seats every few minutes but if they let you as far as the office then that's happening anyway, no?

arbeitsscheuer

1 simple reason:

People are still allowed in if they're 15 mins late right? And apparently, according to the head invigilator guy I spoke to, in exceptional circumstances they can be allowed in after half an hour.

It doesn't take a genius to work out that someone could leave after 15 mins and tell the person who's "late" what's on the paper and how to do it... I call it genius, unfortunately the university takes a dim view of it

I'm proud that my 100% record of being the first to leave my course exams. Long may the run continue! Indeed, today I was the first in the whole f**kin hall to leave. Not bad.

Question to self: Why in the name of all that is holier than Ratzinger did I bother coming in today?! I could've had a nice snooze ffs :rolleyes:

Steveire

2nd one went weel too. But the hard ones don't start til next week. Mechanical engineering btw.

kasintahan

SebtheBum wrote:

1 simple reason:

People are still allowed in if they're 15 mins late right? And apparently, according to the head invigilator guy I spoke to, in exceptional circumstances they can be allowed in after half an hour.

Whoa! - I was 25 mins late yesterday (I found myself at cycling pastTrinity at 9:30 :rolleyes:). I'm lucky they let me in!

beanyb

In the talk the invigilator guy gave to us ickle 1st years he said that he'd let you in if you were late. The security guys are told not to but if you go and ask for him he'd let you in. He seemed sound, said he'd let you do the exam if you turned up for a morning exam in the afternoon accidentally. But that the dept of the exam wouldnt have to accept it.

Jonny Arson

Woooo! First exam over... thank god!

Had Geography paper 1 today. Piss easy paper but i made the major elementry schoolboy error of not properly studying for it. If I had studied I would have blitzed it with at least 90% but thanks to my laziness we are talking about 50-60% and this is the only exam I've prepared for! Its only going downhill from here on in.

Ummmmm what do i have tomorrow.... oh Scoiology 1. Frickin' great! 0% here we go! :eek:

Alana

Hehehe, I know Zane, when I saw the paper I could have kissed Joey B....aw sweet sweet waffling goodness.Now all I've to do is just prepare for the ol politics exam.....eep!Seb I feel your pain-and I'm thinking of keeping it up next year, d'oh!

Anyone got any essay plans for Marx, Mill and Aristotle that they'd like to share.....pleeeeeeeeease?You will be rewarded with shiney things.....

Good Luck all.

Jonny Arson

I actually could have done alot better if it wasn't for this individual sitting on the desk directly behing me. This individual was kicking my chair, calling me names, spitting and was making unnessesary humming noises. I cant believe there are people like that in this day of age in UCD. What a total idiot this person was. I should have got Joey B to bash the brains out of this certain individual with the cycle helmet he brought in today!!!!

Red Alert

The guy in the RDS is no fool but he's really sound. He let a mate of mine take a morning paper in the afternoon, I don't know whether or not they marked it. He's meant to be much sounder than that evil woman in the Blackrock Exam Centre, but i'm not sure about that.

beanyb

Essay plans for Aristotle, Mill and Marx... haha good joke. So screwed for that! I'm only doing Mill and Aristotle, and I've cut that down to participation and values!
trying to think of ways to help ya with it... but I really dont know either!

AngelofFire

First Psychology paper 1 was horrible.

Töpher

God I love not starting till next Wednesday! S'pose I'd better start studying at some point!!

beanyb

How are you not starting until next wednesday? I thought I was quite late not starting until friday!

Töpher

Because my timetable lists my first exam as being on Wednesday!

Don't get me wrong, I'm not complaining!

Chinafoot

hmmm well English 1 wasn't as bad as I expected. Literally just read over stuff on the rain on the way in so had an ok idea. Good thing about English is the waffle-factor

screwed for Old and Middle English though

ah well....best of luck with the rest of them

Alana

Zane from MTV2 wrote:

I actually could have done alot better if it wasn't for this individual sitting on the desk directly behing me. This individual was kicking my chair, calling me names, spitting and was making unnessesary humming noises. I cant believe there are people like that in this day of age in UCD. What a total idiot this person was. I should have got Joey B to bash the brains out of this certain individual with the cycle helmet he brought in today!!!!

Yea she seemed like a right wagon...nothing like that bugger that was sitting in front of me though...jeez the smell, and the noise every 5 seconds letting rip....jeez...

ah I luv u really...

yea....

Vainglory

Essay plans for what aspect of Aristotle?

I'm cramming him at the moment for 2nd year Philosophy Paper 1 tomorrow, eep

kasintahan

AngelofFire wrote:

First Psychology paper 1 was horrible.

No it wasn't!!!

History of Psy had a choice of 4 different people (do one).
There were only 12 on the course and he picked them from 1800's to 1980 so it's not like he wasn't fair.

Perception was nice too - most leaving cert biology students could have answered the ear question and if you didn't like that then coulour perception theory was there (a tough topic but the question left it wide open to you).

The only hard part was the multiple choice which even if you knew the BB notes off my heart you still wouldn't be able to answer quite a few of them.

Steveire

You people are all arts students!?

Mr.Nice Guy

Steveire wrote:

You people are all arts students!?

Roysh you are.

kasintahan

Steveire wrote:

You people are all arts students!?

All of us except Blondie, Red Alert and I'm not sure about Kirby, she smells like science .

kittenkiller

Smells like science?
EWWWWWWwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.......

Look at everyone study!!!

blondie83

Truckle the mod is also a non arts student - himself, myself, Red Alert and theCzar are electronic engineering, Rainbow Kirby in maths physics, but changing course, Sangre is Law, breadmonkey is Commerce, Uberwolf is Science (I think!) and Tribulus is science. Everyone else is arts though afaik

All of us except Blondie, Red Alert and I'm not sure about Kirby, she smells like science

I can see that sentence coming back to haunt you when she gets online

Red Alert

i think you might have meant tribulus for science blondie?

blondie83

I did - post duly edited!

rainbow kirby

blondie83 wrote:

Rainbow Kirby in maths physics, but changing course

Correct. Come September, I'm going to be a nerdy little computer scientist. And poor from paying fees.

kasintahan

blondie83 wrote:

I can see that sentence coming back to haunt you when she gets online

Right now I could do with something to take my mind off the 'xams - a good haunting :eek: sounds just the ticket.

Vainglory

Arrrrrrrrrgh, I'm so screwed for 2nd year Philosophy 1 tomorrow...

Why does Hume have to be so complicated? If Liberty and Necessity/Miracles/possibly both don't come up then I might as well leave.

Anyone else doing that exam?

Alana

rainbow kirby wrote:

Correct. Come September, I'm going to be a nerdy little computer scientist. And poor from paying fees.

Ah, I know the feeling I did that last year, stupid fees, spent my whole summer last year working to pay for it bar like a teeny tiny holiday and then this summer I'm gonna have to work my ass off to pay for another stupid course I'm doing at the end of the summer-but it'll be worth it though...I hope...

rainbow kirby

I've already got most of what I need for next year, it's the fees for when I'm in 3rd year again that are going to pwn me!

Sangre

First exam tomorrow EU Law. 4 qs part A, do 2. And only 1 90 minute problem question on part B.... I just want this first exam out of the way.

5 exams and finished on 27th...sheesh..talk about drawing it out. Most people in my year have a 2 week gap before last exam (not me )
Worst part is my whole year does so much work making you feel bad. Well, better get back to work...

Good luck everyone!!

lolli

I thought Social theory 3rd year was v hard but maybe cos i didn't bother studying

kittenkiller

1 down 3 to go.
Twasn't too bad.
Would've done well if i'd done more that an hours studying all term i guess.
Sigh!

Any such thing as a MOTIVATION pill?
Seriously!

m1ke

motivation pill... hmm... speed maybe? Lot's of motivation to pass your exams and then stay up all night doing the house work.

orangerooster

Philosophy one and two out of the way-I did much,much better than I ever thought I would.Was writing until the end of both and though two of my answers were pretty watery in paper one only one had a high waffle factor in paper two. I might just pull this off,might!