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Exam tips? (:

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  • 28-11-2005 6:20pm
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    Dave!
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    Well, I know we all like tips for exams :)

    So feel free to share any or to ask for any...

    For example, anyone got any tips for the 1st year history courses? :o

    Comparative revolutions --> Russian and French revolutions

    I just went through my notes and this is what I had taken down from lectures and tutorials... if anyone has had the lecturers before (Prof. Gough, and can't remember the other one... Devlin?)
    Early Medieval World
Romans, etc.
[ ] Roman Empire
[ ] Vikings
[ ] Charlemagne
[ ] Islamic Conquests

Christianity, etc.
[ ] St. Patrick (life)
[ ] St. Patrick (cult)
[ ] Anglo-Saxons
[ ] Mohammed


Comparative Revolutions
French Revolution
[ ] Origins
[ ] Terror
[ ] National Assembly

Russian Revolution
[ ] October (Bolsheviks)
[ ] Civil War
[ ] Decline of Lenin
[ ] Consolidation of Stalin’s power

    Thanks :)


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    Riamfada
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    Doing the same exams this week. Should be no haslte. I got Johnson's Slides and Goughs Question "Was the terror a cause or a consequence" . Russia aslwel. Watch Stalin. No Worries. Easy Papers


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    besty
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    Finance:
    Derivative of perpetuities
    Options
    Mergers
    Beta
    Normal q.1


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    Riamfada
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    besty wrote:
    Finance:
    Derivative of perpetuities
    Options
    Mergers
    Beta
    Normal q.1

    Whatever floats your boat my friend


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    Pythia
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    Finance:
    Derivative of perpetuities
    Options
    Mergers
    Beta
    Normal q.1
    Yeah is that what he was saying today in class?


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    #6
    ChrisCross
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    Don't fail.

    Definately don't fail if you're not even doing a real degree (you know what I'm talkin bout).

    If you think you're going to fail don't start watching a Buffy marathon.


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    ChrisCross
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    oh and don't forget those sweet sweet past exam questions.
    Check the Stuweb.


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    Riamfada
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    Its never the end of the world


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    ChrisCross
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    Yeah it's called the apocalypse and Buffy will save us anyways.


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    hullaballoo
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    besty wrote:
    Finance:
    Derivative of perpetuities
    Options
    Mergers
    Beta
    Normal q.1
    Yeah, that's pretty much it for Finance, except for question 1 add in Adjusted Present Value as well (did it in class today)

    I also reckon M&M is a fairly safe bet for it too. My list looks like this:
    M&M
    Mergers
    Capital budgeting—including adjusted PV
    Options (Theory)—Derivatives
    Beta


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    Pythia
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    Besty and Hullaballoo, you in B&L or Commerce or which courses?


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    Sangre
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    I know for a fact Vikings is coming up in the History exam


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    hullaballoo
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    Pythia wrote:
    Besty and Hullaballoo, you in B&L or Commerce or which courses?
    We're both in B&L.

    And you?


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    Chinafoot
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    Elva Johnson is usually a pretty good one to go with. Shes a very fair marker and a great lecturer.


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    hullaballoo
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    DaveMcG
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    How did you manage 1,148 posts in 3 months? That's 11 posts a day--amazing!


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    blondie83
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    DaveMcG wrote:
    Well, I know we all like tips for exams :)

    So feel free to share any or to ask for any...

    For example, anyone got any tips for the 1st year history courses? :o
    If you go back to the start of May and read all the threads for that month you'll get a lot of good exam info. Plus some of them are really, really entertaining!


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    besty
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    Pythia wrote:
    Besty and Hullaballoo, you in B&L or Commerce or which courses?
    I'm B&L Pythia. I recognise you from some lectures from your pic on the other thread. Think you were in the lib yesterday possibly? Ok, I should stop now


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    drdre
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    guys im in commerce 2nd year, have the same topics as you guys.it should be ok,if i get some study done:D


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    Riamfada
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    For anyone out there doing 1st History

    Cut down pretty short but these are the topics im going to learn for tomorrow night

    1)Vikings
    2)Rome Transformation/Decline
    3)St Patrick
    4)Islam

    Do one.

    And for Firday night (i hate revolutions)

    Covering
    1)Stalin
    2)Russian Civil War
    3)The Terror in the French Revolution

    Comments?


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    maireadrua
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    hullaballoo wrote:
    Yeah, that's pretty much it for Finance, except for question 1 add in Adjusted Present Value as well (did it in class today)

    I also reckon M&M is a fairly safe bet for it too. My list looks like this:

    Looks good to me. Am also looking over pretty much all of the assignments, as parts of them will come up in some shape or form. and considering I finally submitted them all...:rolleyes:


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    besty
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    maireadrua wrote:
    Looks good to me. Am also looking over pretty much all of the assignments, as parts of them will come up in some shape or form. and considering I finally submitted them all...:rolleyes:

    ah you've finally reached financial nirvana mairead. i'm a long way off that....apparently they aren't being marked, he is just going to check that they are submitted


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    maireadrua
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    besty wrote:
    ah you've finally reached financial nirvana mairead. i'm a long way off that....apparently they aren't being marked, he is just going to check that they are submitted
    Sweet!


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    Font22
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    o those damn assignments. gone past caring at thhis stage. lecture was class today, good old jimmy. great man and i found his sexist jokes quite funny tbh


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    drdre
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    font 22 are u in jims class for finance.he is class,he just gave it the exam cannot wait tp start studing and understand that stuff as it looks and sounds easy enough.

    are stupid accounting teacher gave no hints i was waiting for them but at the end of lecture she goes thats it and good luck in the exam:rolleyes:


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    Pythia
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    Go Jimmy, go! Remember the 'rack' today!
    Those questions better be on the exam now, they'll be all I'll know.
    Yeah besty, I was in the library on Tuesday, studying for Macro.


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    Waltons
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    Oh god, Macro! At least it's MCQ...


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    Dave!
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    For comparative revolutions -- do you have to pass both the continuous assessment AND the exam, or do you just have to pass overall? My friend told me that for medieval you just have to pass overall, but I didn't ask for comparative. Anyone know?


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    #28
    Riamfada
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    Im not following at all. If you fail the exam you have to repeat no? As in you have to pass the exam and get a higher than an F in your essay to ove on. IF im wrong please correct me..



    PS Dave. Studying The Terror only for todays exam. It has been up every year since 1999, and prob before. Blanking the Russian one, just the terror. Whats your plan for tonight?


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    #29
    peckerhead
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    DaveMcG wrote:
    Well, I know we all like tips for exams :)

    So feel free to share any or to ask for any...

    For example, anyone got any tips for the 1st year history courses? :o
    Here's one — get your sorry asses off Boards for a little while and DO SOME WORK! :D


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    Dave!
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    Yeah but you know the way the continuous assessment counts for 50% of your overall grade, and the exam counts for the other 50%? I was asking if, say you got 35% out of the 50% for the CA, and 15% out of the 50% for the exam (ie. you passed the CA, but failed the exam), then altogether that gives you 50% -- a pass overall, but you've failed one part of the course.

    So in other words, do you need to get >20% (out of 50%) from each part of the course?

    I'll most likely be studying the terror too... I tried to do Russia, but it's just too tricky or something, I can't get it. What part of the terror are you doing? What aspect of it, like?

    Someone said that the question "was the terror a cause or a consequence?" will be coming up... how would you answer that? :confused:


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    Riamfada
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    I think if you fail you have to repeat regardless of how it affects your overall grade. Id have to say the terror was a consequence and outline what happened and why. Then the final stage was pure indulgence. Im heading to the exam center early. I study better at the door in my car. And by early I mean now


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