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    #62
    Font22
    Closed Accounts Posts: 753 ✭✭✭Font22


    nothing new there besty! i told u i wud give them to you anyway!


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    #63
    rainbow kirby
    Registered Users Posts: 26,928 ✭✭✭✭rainbow kirby


    Ruskie4Rent wrote:
    Programming seems like it's gonna be fine. The previous exam paper was easy enough and if this years paper is anything like it i'll be crawling on the floor.
    1st year Java is REALLY easy. You're all going to be grand :)


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    #64
    muffin_man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 110 ✭✭muffin_man


    What happens if you get caught cheating?
    I hear you like get banned from sitting any UCD exams for a few years!


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    #65
    Pythia
    Registered Users Posts: 7,469 ✭✭✭Pythia


    Ok let's say I'm bad at Subject A and good at Subject B. My same sex friend is the opposite. What's to stop us making fake exam cards (swap the pictures on them) and doing each other's exams? Just a thought...


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    #66
    Dave!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,857 ✭✭✭✭Dave!


    Do the invigilators even look at the pictures? None of mine seemed to...


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    #67
    irlrobins
    Registered Users Posts: 7,541 ✭✭✭irlrobins


    muffin_man wrote:
    What happens if you get caught cheating?
    I hear you like get banned from sitting any UCD exams for a few years!

    depends on how much u cheated. All incidents get passed to the exam board and its up to them to decide. Some depts are heavier on it than others. I know of one guy in eng who was caught with notes and banned from sitting exams for 2 years. And as you have to pass the exams within 2 years of presenting yourself for examination he failed the course and was out of UCD. Would have had to reapply thru CAO again.


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    #68
    irlrobins
    Registered Users Posts: 7,541 ✭✭✭irlrobins


    Pythia wrote:
    Ok let's say I'm bad at Subject A and good at Subject B. My same sex friend is the opposite. What's to stop us making fake exam cards (swap the pictures on them) and doing each other's exams? Just a thought...

    not alot tbh. But unless they employ really strict (and I mean strict) id control on entry to exam etc, they can never completely eliminate the probability of this. So technically you might get away with it.

    But would you trust your friend to be able to pass for you?


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    #69
    irlrobins
    Registered Users Posts: 7,541 ✭✭✭irlrobins


    DaveMcG wrote:
    Do the invigilators even look at the pictures? None of mine seemed to...

    Yep we do.


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    #70
    irlrobins
    Registered Users Posts: 7,541 ✭✭✭irlrobins


    rainbow kirby wrote:
    1st year Java is REALLY easy. You're all going to be grand :)

    Yea if u fail 1st yr java, u either must be completely thick, in which case there is no hope for you in csi, or just not bothered your ass at all. It requires the minimum effort to pass this.


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    #71
    irlrobins
    Registered Users Posts: 7,541 ✭✭✭irlrobins


    Red Alert wrote:
    John Clarke from the RDS usually has some good ones about cheaters. The baseball cap one and seat swapping are usually on his list.

    If you go back to last year about May and look at the threads here there's one about a guy having a major row with five invigilators who then gave chase from the Simmonscourt. Quite funny actually.

    haha, I was one of them. Was quite scary, your man was off his face on something. I was just waiting for him to deck one of us.

    Ok i apolgise for the 5 in a row posting. Just couldn't be bothered to combine all the quotes.


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    #72
    Dave!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,857 ✭✭✭✭Dave!


    lay-zeee!


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    #73
    Pythia
    Registered Users Posts: 7,469 ✭✭✭Pythia


    irlrobins wrote:
    haha, I was one of them. Was quite scary, your man was off his face on something. I was just waiting for him to deck one of us.

    Ok i apolgise for the 5 in a row posting. Just couldn't be bothered to combine all the quotes.

    Post count ++ ? :)


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    #74
    irlrobins
    Registered Users Posts: 7,541 ✭✭✭irlrobins


    Pythia wrote:
    count++

    See! Even Pythia can pass java.

    Insider java joke, Rainbow will def get it.


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    #75
    Pod 78
    Closed Accounts Posts: 44 ✭Pod 78


    Good try cheater-was a guy who had notes input into his watch (one of those casio calculator yokes) this was a few years ago. He input formula etc.. and results for a Science exam- he was caught fairly sharpish and watch was confiscated... booted out of UCD- Apparently he never did claim his watch back from examinations.

    Another one - I was an invigilator and a guy came back out of the toilets with his notes in his hands as my friend (another invigilator) was leading him back into the exam hall.... he was the stupidest! He did not put the notes back in his pocket after looking at them in the toilets. He was fined and held back to repeat the exams.

    Fines now go to New Era Programme - worthwhile cause.

    My best tip for exams- ask your lecturer questions when they arrive, usually there for the first 30-60 minutes. They can be quite helpful :) They don't particuarly want their students to fail, just means they have to mark more papers...:( You can ask them to clarify the questions, it's very hard not to help as to give an answer you have to usually give some kind of clue without favouring that student.


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    #76
    irlrobins
    Registered Users Posts: 7,541 ✭✭✭irlrobins


    Pod 78 wrote:
    Good try cheater-was a guy who had notes input into his watch (one of those casio calculator yokes) this was a few years ago. He input formula etc.. and results for a Science exam- he was caught fairly sharpish and watch was confiscated... booted out of UCD- Apparently he never did claim his watch back from examinations.

    Damnit that was me who caught him! Maybe I'm a UCD legend. And it was a really really bad attempt at cheating. I clocked him acting suspicious 5 mins into exam.


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    #77
    Red Alert
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 7,486 ✭✭✭Red Alert


    you must be getting a 'best invigilator' prize by now! :D


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    #78
    Waltons
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,677 ✭✭✭Waltons


    irlrobins wrote:
    See! Even Pythia can pass java.

    Insider java joke, Rainbow will def get it.

    Why isn't there a cringe smilie?


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    #79
    irlrobins
    Registered Users Posts: 7,541 ✭✭✭irlrobins


    Red Alert wrote:
    you must be getting a 'best invigilator' prize by now! :D

    Anyday now.... anyday.


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    #80
    Pythia
    Registered Users Posts: 7,469 ✭✭✭Pythia


    So which place do you supervise so we can look out for you?


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    #81
    irlrobins
    Registered Users Posts: 7,541 ✭✭✭irlrobins


    Science...


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    #82
    Pythia
    Registered Users Posts: 7,469 ✭✭✭Pythia


    Floor 1 or 2?


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    #83
    irlrobins
    Registered Users Posts: 7,541 ✭✭✭irlrobins


    1. You got exams there?


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    #84
    Pythia
    Registered Users Posts: 7,469 ✭✭✭Pythia


    I was staring right at you for a good while today then. Tax at 9.30. Row 4, Seat 6. Red hair. You had a top with something starting with E on it?


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    #85
    irlrobins
    Registered Users Posts: 7,541 ✭✭✭irlrobins


    Yep that was me.... Can't picture u.... Sorry.

    Kinda feaky the way you say "staring right at me".... :p

    Sorry if I didn't notice. Next time come up and say hi!


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    #86
    Pythia
    Registered Users Posts: 7,469 ✭✭✭Pythia


    Won't be in Science again...
    I was very naughty, I didn't have an exam card. They gave me a post-it instead but spelt my name wrong. Silly invigilators!


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    #87
    irlrobins
    Registered Users Posts: 7,541 ✭✭✭irlrobins


    ha, know who u are now.


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    #88
    pilson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 94 ✭✭pilson


    Heres an exam tip for anyone doing the Information Systems final on Thursday (COMP4002):
    dont leave it until 3 days before the exam to start studying...:eek:

    Man, I remember picking this unit coz the past papers looked handy. Theres a lot to be said for loads of short questions with short answers instead of this essay crap...:eek:


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    #89
    Ruskie4Rent
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,088 ✭✭✭Ruskie4Rent


    Anyone have any links to the past Intro to information studies papers. i'm in a bit of a panic.


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    #90
    rainbow kirby
    Registered Users Posts: 26,928 ✭✭✭✭rainbow kirby


    Anyone got any tips for Damien Dalton's Digital Systems exam tomorrow? Because I'm more than a little fux0red for it!


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    #91
    Ruskie4Rent
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,088 ✭✭✭Ruskie4Rent


    Shhhh you! I'm in bigger trouble.


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