Exam time thread

TheCosmicFrog · 06-12-2011 08:23PM

Is anyone else of the opinion that there's a serious lack of talent among the invigilators this year? That said, all of my exams so far have been outside the college. Maybe that's where they're keeping them...

cat_xx · 06-12-2011 08:38PM

TheCosmicFrog wrote: »

Is anyone else of the opinion that there's a serious lack of talent among the invigilators this year? That said, all of my exams so far have been outside the college. Maybe that's where they're keeping them...

I actually thought about this today.. obviously did it not to distract us! :cool:

Ruire · 08-12-2011 01:11AM

TheCosmicFrog wrote: »

Is anyone else of the opinion that there's a serious lack of talent among the invigilators this year? That said, all of my exams so far have been outside the college. Maybe that's where they're keeping them...

I've had the same people as I've had for the past three years.

More of the same, ah well. There's always next semester.

RolandIRL · 08-12-2011 01:26AM

Had a lovely walk out to salthill today, at least it wasn't pissing rain though, but leisureland was freezing >_< methods paper was nice enough (hear that, Frog?) :P fumbled one question, started an extra one but got caught out on time. think i got enough down to get a decent mark though

now onwards to my hardest exam tomorrow...despairing a bit over it since it's really complicated and head-wrecking.

EEm · 08-12-2011 01:33AM

Ye'r lucky over in NUI having ye'r exams pre christmas. After xmas exams suck!!!!

Reillyman · 08-12-2011 12:38PM

RolandIRL wrote: »

methods paper was nice enough (hear that, Frog?) :P fumbled one question, started an extra one but got caught out on time. think i got enough down to get a decent mark though

2nd year methods yeah? In the Bailey Allen?

RolandIRL · 08-12-2011 12:39PM

3rd year methods out in salthill

GEasy · 08-12-2011 12:41PM

RolandIRL wrote: »

3rd year methods out in salthill

Out of curiosity , methods of what?

RolandIRL · 08-12-2011 12:42PM

maths physics

GEasy · 08-12-2011 12:52PM

RolandIRL wrote: »

maths physics

You doing comp sci? Engineering ? Maths ? Goodluck with it anyways

nobbo · 08-12-2011 01:42PM

The methods paper(2nd year) was soft enough, yet I heard people complaining about it...

BhoscaCapall · 08-12-2011 01:45PM

First exam ever in Leisureland this morning. Apart from the general weirdness of having a smell of chlorine in the air while sitting an exam, I thought it was grand, not cold or anything.

musical.x · 08-12-2011 06:12PM

TheCosmicFrog wrote: »

Is anyone else of the opinion that there's a serious lack of talent among the invigilators this year? That said, all of my exams so far have been outside the college. Maybe that's where they're keeping them...

is the ginger,curly haired invigilator still around? he always wore a leather jacket. he's easy on the eyes

had an exam in lesiureland too. it wasnt cold but wtf is up with people having to sit on the stage? delighted i wasnt one of them. the lights up there are blinding.

Reillyman · 08-12-2011 06:42PM

nobbo wrote: »

The methods paper(2nd year) was soft enough, yet I heard people complaining about it...

Yeah I found it allright, got out greens theorem and all of question 4. The question 3 was harder than usual due to the proof in part (b), in hindsight I probably should have done question 1 instead of 3 but I'd say I should be allright anyway.

What course are you doing?

RolandIRL · 08-12-2011 08:31PM

LakesKeane wrote: »

You doing comp sci? Engineering ? Maths ? Goodluck with it anyways

*wonders why so interested* :P
i'm science anyway :P

Another exam today, didn't go as badly as i thought. didn't get it all finished but enough for a good mark overall when coupled with the CA. Off now til tuesday and then i'm finished \o/

meeka · 08-12-2011 11:26PM

2 done, 2 to go. This morning's exam wasn't as disastrous as I'd anticipated, either. Even after getting a grand total of 2 hours sleep last night...

nobbo · 09-12-2011 02:13AM

Reillyman wrote: »

Yeah I found it allright, got out greens theorem and all of question 4. The question 3 was harder than usual due to the proof in part (b), in hindsight I probably should have done question 1 instead of 3 but I'd say I should be allright anyway.

What course are you doing?

Science, changed from a different course so had to go back into first year.

evanSpiddal · 09-12-2011 04:09AM

Currently studying for my second last exam which is at 9.30 tomorrow morning! Damn final year exams, actually have to do well in them!

Also damn NUIG scheduling, 4 exams jammed into 5 days then the final one a week later (next Friday!)

Nailz · 09-12-2011 11:34AM

Is it unusual to have 6 exams in 5 days at all? 2 Monday, 2 Wednesday, 1 Thursday (9:30 in Leisureland), and the last one Friday afternoon? I found it to be bizarrely crammed.

BhoscaCapall · 09-12-2011 04:16PM

Nailz wrote: »

Is it unusual to have 6 exams in 5 days at all? 2 Monday, 2 Wednesday, 1 Thursday (9:30 in Leisureland), and the last one Friday afternoon? I found it to be bizarrely crammed.

It's absurd but not unusual. Usually worse in the summer though. It becomes more of an endurance test than an academic one. Yet there are people who still think written exams are accurate measures of intelligence.

Nailz · 10-12-2011 02:25AM

Really? The summer exams? That's quite odd considering what appears to be a well spread time period given for it; 3 and a bit weeks. I'm with you regarding the how written exams aren't a good test of intelligence, but there's few formal solutions on hand.

WallyGUFC · 10-12-2011 03:36AM

Leisureland this morning, well yesterday morning. Invigilator, spent most of the time on stage, was talented. I was distracted, yet pleasantly surprised.

meeka · 10-12-2011 11:37PM

A thought just occurred to me - didn't the SU say at the end of last year that exams would be anonymously marked this year, and that you wouldn't have to write your name on the paper? Nothing has changed, anyway...

workingstudent · 11-12-2011 03:23PM

do they supply you with log tables or are you expected to bring em with you?

Raging_Ninja · 11-12-2011 03:32PM

workingstudent wrote: »

do they supply you with log tables or are you expected to bring em with you?

They supply log tables. Unless they forget, like they did last winter for research methods in economics for final years (or rather a formula sheet, not log tables). But we got an extra 40 minutes in the exam, and the option to resit the exam in January.

APB18 · 11-12-2011 04:15PM

Can anyone else not get on the CASS website?

Raging_Ninja · 11-12-2011 04:19PM

nope, but blackboard and past exams database appear to be fine.

Ruire · 11-12-2011 06:11PM

meeka wrote: »

A thought just occurred to me - didn't the SU say at the end of last year that exams would be anonymously marked this year, and that you wouldn't have to write your name on the paper? Nothing has changed, anyway...

Not that I recall.

yer man! · 11-12-2011 09:08PM

our previous su president guaranteed that there would be anonymous marking....(in 10 years at least)

forfcksake · 11-12-2011 09:15PM

The way exams are set out are a joke, 5 exams one day after the other is ridiculous! why can't they put a bit of effort in especially for final years! Then having to travel out to Salthill for exams is a joke, does any other college have to do this? NUIG is ****e!

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