exam progress, in general

tribulus

seen as how there's so many arts people here talking about the history of this and the revolution of that, i thought i'd start a thread for the exam sitting students in general-how they're progressing, crappy papers etc.

so far for me 2down, 2 to go
chemistry on monday was fine- no probs
maths today went alright, scraped a pass i reckon (again big thanks to the boardsies who helped me)

exam on friday then the following thursday and i'm done

ghostchant

well so far so good for me.
my first maths paper went well, as did exp. physics.
my maths modelling paper in maths physics went much better than expected, and the mechanics paper was easy enough.
I've got a geology practical tomorrow though, which may go horrendously wrong, but we'll see
and i've 2 more papers after that - phew!

tribulus

your timetable sounds a lot tougher than mine
why do you have a geology practical tomorrow- is it a practical test or something???

geology definitely does'nt rock - all my mates hated it, didn't go to the lectures/pracs etc. and now they're screwed for the test - as the cycle goes :rolleyes:

ghostchant

yeah it's a practical test. It shouldn't be too bad really but i'm kinda screwed for the actual exam - it's gonna be a stressful weekend!
but i'm finished on tuesday so its not so bad

rainbow kirby

Ghostchant, you're lucky modelling went well. Have you ever seen the absolute atrocity that was the summer 2003 modelling paper? That was my year...

And as for exam progress? I think I've gotten a first in putting my feet up, and in making it to work on time.

ghostchant

i just had a look at it. :eek:
i dodged a bullet there

blondie83

tribulus wrote:

so far for me 2down, 2 to go
chemistry on monday was fine- no probs
maths today went alright, scraped a pass i reckon (again big thanks to the boardsies who helped me)

exam on friday then the following thursday and i'm done

Glad maths went well Mine are goin okay - 2 down and 8 to go. I've been strangly relaxed about exams this year though which can't be good!

Jonny Arson

Well,

Geography 1 - OK
Sociology 1 - Disaster
Information Studies 1 - OK
Sociology 2 - Disaster

Information Studies 2 tomorrow and its not looking good
Geography 2 on Monday and thats not looking good either
Geography 3 on Friday week and that may be OK :cool:

Goddam I shoulda done some study! :mad:

P.S. Gotta love the avatar tribulus lol

Sangre

Eu law and land law, Land down today.

The two compsulsory subjects and always tough enough. But I crashed and burned on Part B of EU where you only have one problem question to do, I had studied plently but literally blanked in the exam...ffs Whats even worse was going mby my Part A I was onto a 1st.
Land, topics came I suppose but some odd questions, with a tough enough problem question on easments.
3 more to go, finished on 27th. Most of my year are on the piss today because its 2 weeks until their last exam.
The spaced out exams are good in one way but its really draining getting no break, not studying today after Land but I did wake up at 4.30 to study so Im pretty wrecked anway.
Labour law on Wednesday...1 person in 20 years has failed..,score

kasintahan

Psy 1 - better than expected.
IS 1 - no idea, i still don't know how we spent a entire year studying it.

Tomorrow - IS 2 - i'm done so little study that i'm listening to Gary Numan on comically HUGE Sony Head phones (think RTE style only bigger).

PSY2/3 and Computers are next week and i have yet to study for them...

blondie83

Sangre wrote:

Eu law and land law, Land down today.

The two compsulsory subjects and always tough enough. But I crashed on burned on Part B of EU where you only have one problem question to do, I had studied plently but literally blanked in the exam...ffs Whats even worse was going my Part A I was onto a 1st.
Land, topics came I suppose but some odd questions, with a tough enough problem question on easments.
3 more to go, finished on 27th. Most of my year are on the piss today because its 2 weeks until their last exam.
The spaced out exams are good in one way but its really draining getting no break, not studying today after Land but I did wake up at 4.30 to study so Im pretty wrecked anway.
Labour law on Wednesday...1 person in 20 years has failed..,score

Yeah its annoying when that happens - happened to us today too! Thought I'd be grand for RF circuits and systems (all receiver/transmitter design and that sorta stuff), was real relaxed and everything then got into the exam and kinda messed it up. I'm pissed off now cos I should have done well in it - it was just that the questions were put in a slightly unexpected way which they weren't in previous year's papers Bah I'm waffling now, time for sleep I think!

Red Alert

Tomorrow it'll be four down, and three to go. So far so good apart from the little hiccup with maths. Machines and Power Systems went very well yesterday - they weren't entirely evil and set a few of the old favourite questions. :cool:

Tomorrow is communication theory - a highly strange exam. He wants people to think, so what he does is make new questions every year. And it's full of stuff like "design... what frequency would you decide to use...". Easy to pass, probably difficult to get high marks in.

The compusory questions are evil. The Elec Circuits guy does that - and it seems to be a totally mixed bag what the compulsory question might be.

Also, how does one study something you only looked at for two hours in the whole year? Engineering Computation... what a load of bollocks! But now i'm ****ting it cos i really haven't a clue what the hell it's about! :mad:

blondie83

Red Alert wrote:

Tomorrow it'll be four down, and three to go. So far so good apart from the little hiccup with maths. Machines and Power Systems went very well yesterday - they weren't entirely evil and set a few of the old favourite questions. :cool: ...Also, how does one study something you only looked at for two hours in the whole year? Engineering Computation... what a load of bollocks! But now i'm ****ting it cos i really haven't a clue what the hell it's about! :mad:

Ah you'll be grand for eng comp - didn't go to it all year then spent a day studying it and passed no prob. How have you only 7 exams - it's crazy! When I think of my 14 subjects last year - now in my day elec eng was proper difficult - proper I tells ya!

Red Alert wrote:

Tomorrow is communication theory - a highly strange exam. He wants people to think, so what he does is make new questions every year. And it's full of stuff like "design... what frequency would you decide to use...". Easy to pass , probably difficult to get high marks in.

Emm... not so easy to pass, you've gotta be very care of himself, he marks wierdly - I came out of it last year sure I had 60%, ended up getting 30% The exam we had today was his as well, it was all "design a receiver to do a,b,c,d,e comment on choice of frequency, filters ect" I don't like design questions cos you never know how you did, and especially with him. I mean if they ask you to explain or define something at least you know whether or not you've answered it properly, and if its a maths Q you have a fair idea how you did. Design + exams = not good

I'll stop moaning now!

Pythia

6 Down, 1 to go.

Algebra - v good
Microeconomics - good
Accounting - hoped I passed!
Macroeconomics - good
Statistics 1 - v good
Statistics 2 - good
Analysis and Calculus - we'll soon see

Töpher

2 down, 4 to go.

Information Systems - Suckeed ass
Artificial Intelligence - Best... Exam... Ever!

Red Alert

blondie83 wrote:

Ah you'll be grand for eng comp - didn't go to it all year then spent a day studying it and passed no prob.

That's good to hear! I went to two weeks of it, decided it was all bollocks and took the extra hour in bed!

blondie83 wrote:

The exam we had today was his as well, it was all "design a receiver to do a,b,c,d,e comment on choice of frequency, filters ect" I don't like design questions cos you never know how you did, and especially with him. I mean if they ask you to explain or define something at least you know whether or not you've answered it properly, and if its a maths Q you have a fair idea how you did. Design + exams = not good

Yeah same here, he asked a weird one today! Hope it went well for ya! . He was there during ours as well, and came around to all of us to point out that the Sine Wave in the graph was in fact a Sine Wave, as it looked too pointy to him!

How have you only 7 exams - it's crazy! When I think of my 14 subjects last year - now in my day elec eng was proper difficult - proper I tells ya!

You lot must be geniuses! To think we could have had circuit theory (by the ScanMan no less), E-Mag :eek: and Comp Eng thrown in... *shudders*

tribulus

Zane from MTV2 wrote:

Well,
P.S. Gotta love the avatar tribulus lol

it was a present for my 100th post

biology today, 60 MCQ's but negative marking. Answered 54 of them but about 20 of them were a guess...meh i'd already passed the subject anyway :cool: yay for semesterisation

Chinafoot

english has been passable so far (i think)
but i fúcked up majorly with the european history paper. hopwfully do well enough on the roman paper to scrape an overall pass. (shouldnt be too difficult since the lovely Elva told us whats coming up!)

boneless

peachypants wrote:

english has been passable so far (i think)
but i fúcked up majorly with the european history paper. hopwfully do well enough on the roman paper to scrape an overall pass. (shouldnt be too difficult since the lovely Elva told us whats coming up!)

That history paper was a nightmare... 'cause I missed so much of the course it was hard to get a handle on the subject matter... roll on the 18th!! Porterhouse get ready!!

snickerpuss

Irish - Fabulous
English - Less so
Art History - Bad bad bad.

I finished today though so i don't care how anything went......til i get the results.

arbeitsscheuer

Politics 1: Oh jesus, what an appaling paper...
Politics 2: Ha ha ha ha ha - wait, you don't seriously expect me to answer this do you?! It's GIBBERISH!! (Political Research, ladies and gentlemen) :eek:
Politics 3: Hmmm... Surprisingly not so bad - although I left after an hour and realised after a few minutes that I left out so much stuff that I knew ARRGH :mad:
History 1: Meh. S'alright I guess.
History 4: Brilliant. F**king nailed this paper, the only one I can say that about so far.
History 2: Oh god oh god oh god... Abysmal.

So... Pretty bad. Just 2 left, Politics 4 and History 3 left - I'll pass and ace respectively. Will fail Politics, between 10-20% overall. Hopefully will pass History, and by my guesstimation I may even get 60-65%.

It's f**ked up ain't it?

Vainglory

Seb, you're going to ace History on Wednesday? HOW?


I'm so screwed for that paper

What's your elective?

arbeitsscheuer

20th Century Britain. I was sure I posted that before, meh...

So there ya go. Averaged 65% in the essays, my best marks of this year. (They were on "Our Finest Hour" and "SuperMac" just in case ur interested!)
No problem. I loved this course, it's the only I've done in college that I can say that about. The only thing I ever really wanted to do. Wish I coulda just done the entire degree just on that...

anna20

2 finished 4 to go. i'm too relaxed about these exams though and that is starting to worry me a little!

business information systems was grand
managament accounting was ok too but may be a little bit delusional there
company law 2moro-not that stressed but prob shud be
criminal law on tuesday shud b grand
business stats- not too worried
EU law next week shud b a breeze and then its off to sunny toronto!!!!!!!!

pbsuxok1znja4r

Yeah I've def failed 3 of mine....does that mean I have to repeat them ALL in august?

arbeitsscheuer

500TH POST! HUZZAH!

Ahem.

You've failed 3 of what? 3 Papers of one subject, each subject,all the subjects combined...?

Basically, each subject you fail you have to repeat all the exams you had to do for that subject.

besty

anna20 wrote:

2 finished 4 to go. i'm too relaxed about these exams though and that is starting to worry me a little!

business information systems was grand
managament accounting was ok too but may be a little bit delusional there
company law 2moro-not that stressed but prob shud be
criminal law on tuesday shud b grand
business stats- not too worried
EU law next week shud b a breeze and then its off to sunny toronto!!!!!!!!

im in the same boat. i know this "anna" and she makes no reference to the fact that she completes a foul amount of study,hence her relaxed outlook for the rest of the exams

Bus. Inf. Systems - Insultingly easy
Management Accounting - Very little study but think i pulled it out of the bag
Company Law (tomorro) - should be ok, i can waffle
Crminal Law (tue) - legend of a lecturer never changes the paper

Stats (wed) - If the devil wiped his ass on a sheet of paper, you would have the stats exam

EU law (tue week) - should be ok. havent done anything for it tho - plenty of time.

DArcy

Pharmacology...6 down, 3 to go

pretty*monster

I finished 2 days ago

Philosophy was grand, History was vey dodgy, English was... I'm not sure actually, hard to tell.

The important thing is that it's all over now (until august).

arbeitsscheuer

pretty*monster wrote:

I finished 2 days ago

DAMN YOU, WENCH!!!!

One more left. History 3. No problem.

Left Politics 4 after an hour again... I should really being taking a count of how many hours I've actually been in the exams, against how many I SHOULD have been. I reckon I've only been in for half the time. Disgraceful.

Completely f**ked it up. Wrote a 2 pages for British Politics (ranted against Blair and his 'lapdog' approach to the 'special relationship'. Twas Fun! ) a sentence for Power, Discourse, Political B0ll0cks, and a sentence for Democratic Theory. Swell.

pretty*monster wrote:

The important thing is that it's all over now (until august).

Quit being so pessimistic (I know; pot,kettle,black etc) you did grand, I guarantee it. I have a sense for these things.

Jonny Arson

Oh 1 more to go....... can't wait for it to be all over! eh until Sociology in August tho'

Vainglory

Two more to go...Philosophy 5 (Yes, 5!!! Don't do it in second year, kids!! Plus, it's the dreaded Propositional Logic, the WHOLE paper) and History 3 which I am screwed for but I reckon I can scrape a pass...


Meh, I've never wanted two days to be over so much in my life.

ghostchant

I just finished a couple of hours ago.
I have the whole summer in front of me!
haven't a clue what to do now though

Töpher

Math Logic rocked!

Vainglory

Argh, I HATE HATE HATE Logic.

*cries*

Kevin_rc_ie

aww. Cheer up. exams are over/almost over.

tribulus

Kevin_rc_ie wrote:

aww. Cheer up. exams are over/almost over.

i know, two more days can't be bothered studying for my last one though, and i do still have to pass it :rolleyes:

blondie83

Damn you ppl, I still have 5 left!

ferdi

fairly ****e all round, only one paper to go though

anna20

i would like to defend myself!
i do not do a foul amount of study, i do the bear minimum but spend ages doing it!
nice to see you are keeping up wit ur posting besty darling!

besty

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Math Logic rocked!

*vomit*

blondie83

Right in a truely blonde moment I've managed to lose my notes for my exam tomorrow morning. Why do I do things like this? :mad: Anyway the question is should I go or not. See we can do up to 5 optional subjects which we pick from a group of 8, and the best 4 of the 5 count marks-wise. Now although todays exam was a bit dodgy, I still think I'll do better on my other four options then I will on ADSP, so I'm wondering if I should bother going along to it on the off chance that it might actually be okay. Opinions?

kittenkiller

If there's any way that it might be a good thing DO IT!!!

Regret the things you do rathre than the things you don't!


& best of luck at it too.

Alana

I'd do it....I second kittenkiller-better to have something to regret than nothing...plus you never know-you might do really well. You also may not, but if you don't do it then you won't know........

GOOD LUCK!!!!

blondie83

Yeah I suppose I probably should. I'm after finding notes on the internet which will help anyway. Thanks for the advice!

Mr.Nice Guy

"There is always another chance...this thing called 'failure' isn't falling down but staying down." - Mary Pickford

Sangre

Exam in 2 hours.. joy!

Red Alert

Go for it blondie! You haven't really got anything to lose at this stage. If you do well then so be it and if you do worse than the other's it won't really bother you. Good luck!

blondie83

Mr.Nice Guy wrote:

"There is always another chance...this thing called 'failure' isn't falling down but staying down." - Mary Pickford

Nice quote - must remember that one! Exam suprisingly went grand, proving once and for all that boards knows best! Think I may have scraped 60% in it, which is all I was looking for . I stayed up till about 4 studying so now I'm wrecked, but have happilly discovered 4 big thermos flasks of coffee and tea on the top floor of the eng building (there was a talk on) drinking my third cup of it now! Hope your exam went well Sangre, in fact now that I think about it we were sitting right beside 2nd/3rd/4th BCL company law - was that yourselves?

Sangre

Yep you had the pleasure of being in my company

See how many of us there was? Mad to have it on so late.

Next up Family on Friday, done so little work.

Red Alert

Blondie you better have the list of the right subjects to do next year --- that one yesterday sounds like my kinda thing if ya did so well!