Exam Results

BKtje

btw last semester a D- was a compenated pass. PC still for provisional compensation? It does still say on SIS that these results are provisional?

Edit: o nm, thats there for traditional students.

Scraggs

Hey BK-Dzr are you sure that you'll have to repeat the year?
Ask to see if you could repeat the project maybe...
And get your grade reviewed..it could well be worth it!

Chinafoot

Definitely see if you can get the project reviewed. If you put that much work into it it's very odd that you got an F

Won't hurt...

BKtje

Well the they are both core subjects. I wouldnt have to repeat everything. Just those 2 subjects (i cant even resit the maths as apparently F means you must redo it all).

Im gonna get the project reviewed for sure. I really cant understand the F.
I cant just repeat the project as its a group thing. This was made fairly clear. if you fail you'll be sitting there again next year.

Id love to be able to repeat the maths in autumn as if i can pass it then thats €500 squids less to have to pay next year (works out at about 500 per module to repeat for me).

Scraggs

InFront wrote:

ARGH HASNT ANYBODY FAILED YET??:eek:

Im picturing me and like 5 others in the entire RDS next august becuase we're "special"

*High five*

Go team special:o

Dave!

that's a load of balls man, there's no way you deserve to fail SEP! email Joe (don't post in the forum) and ask if it can be rechecked, i'll vouch for the fact that you were the most capable programmer on the team, and I'm sure so will Chris!

BKtje

ill email him tomorrow and see what the story is alright.

I did have a lower pre-project grade than you m8. I guess thats what ****ed me over. I worked out that i needed 50% in the project to pass. Guess we didnt make that

Meh, really wasnt expecting that at all. Even an E would hurt less but a total F

irlrobins

Yea get a recheck on project. But note that just because one group member got a higher mark does not mean you should get one too. I've given 2.1's and first's to group members and failed another.

But if you talk to Joe he might be able to shed some light on your project breakdown.

As a side note: a+? b-? GPA? WTF????

Jonny Arson

10 months ago Zane shed the tears endlessly when he failed his repeats.........

10 months on he's finally in 2nd year!!!!!!

Got yet another C in whatever Archaeology module I was doing which was all I need to pass the year so I'm living up to the matel of being a straight C student but I don't care.... I'm ****ing extatic! I'm never ever repeating a year again. Woohooo getting shitfaced tonight!!!!


B-K-DzR - You'll definitely have an opportunity to get your grade reviewed or at worst have to re-do the project or do another project over the summer.

Congrats everyone who passed. Scraggs, B-K-DzR - repeats will be shit but if you can start putting in solid studying now it will be all worth it.

Intro to Programming II A+

Intro to Comp Architecture A+

Physics of our Environment A+

Physics of the Quantum World A

Mathematical Modelling II A+

Mech & Special Relativity A+

Diff & Integral Calc A-


Good old first year exams. There's nothing like them.
Congratulations DaveMcG, you can go interrailing now!

griffdaddy

how come my results aren't up yet?.......is.....is.....it cause they're trying to work out how smart i am?:o

They were up for a while but they've been down for the last hour or so.

griffdaddy

Deleted User wrote:

They were up for a while but they've been down for the last hour or so.

Did they say when they'd be back?:p

PaulDoh

B-K-DzR wrote:

Well the they are both core subjects. I wouldnt have to repeat everything. Just those 2 subjects (i cant even resit the maths as apparently F means you must redo it all).

Im gonna get the project reviewed for sure. I really cant understand the F.
I cant just repeat the project as its a group thing. This was made fairly clear. if you fail you'll be sitting there again next year.

Id love to be able to repeat the maths in autumn as if i can pass it then thats €500 squids less to have to pay next year (works out at about 500 per module to repeat for me).

Ah frick, is it really €500 to repeat that software eng project class? Frickety frick.

griffdaddy

got mine there, 3c+'s, 2b's and a b+. Meh

PaulDoh

Mine still aren't up on SIS.

griffdaddy

PaulDoh wrote:

Mine still aren't up on SIS.

hit refresh a few times

PaulDoh

griffdaddy wrote:

hit refresh a few times

Nah I've logged out and logged back in and all and still nothing. I'll give it a few minutes.

Heyes

all results for all years may not be up yet.

Slash/ED

Have you got them up yet Paul? No sign of mine atm...

I'm first year arts

PaulDoh

Slash/ED wrote:

Have you got them up yet Paul? No sign of mine atm...

I'm first year arts

No, I'm still waiting. I might just leave it and check back around 5pm.

Scraggs

Last night there was one of those announcement thingys saying that it would be down today and tomorrow so maybe thats the problem? [mine are gone too..and good riddance!]

Blowfish

I heard today that there was actually an 80% fail rate for the SEP in first year, so your definitely not alone B-K-DzR

Dave!

Blowfish wrote:

I heard today that there was actually an 80% fail rate for the SEP in first year, so your definitely not alone B-K-DzR

Who the heck told ya that?! That's alot of failure! I got the impression that if you made the tinest bit of effort he'd pass you... He'd hardly make over 100 people repeat the year would he?

Riamfada

I remember somone saying somthing about the Uni predicting a 50% fail rate in 1st Arts this year

irlrobins

Blowfish wrote:

I heard today that there was actually an 80% fail rate for the SEP in first year, so your definitely not alone B-K-DzR

80% failing a first year course (and the SEP at that)???. Either the course work was set too high, or you're all retarded/bunch of wasters.

If that figure is true I'm quite amazed. From my experience of marking SEP's, unless you did no work what so ever you still got a min of 40%. It's usually the easiest module to get a high mark in, ime. So for 80% of class to fail would either mean most of you did no work, the course work was too difficult for most people, or you were really marked strictly.

Blowfish

DaveMcG wrote:

Who the heck told ya that?! That's alot of failure! I got the impression that if you made the tinest bit of effort he'd pass you... He'd hardly make over 100 people repeat the year would he?

Aaron Quigley. tbh our project in third year wasn't particularly impressive, but we managed to get 67%, despite the fact 2 of our group didn't write any code, so I don't know what the story with the first year one is, and why it was so bad.

irlrobins

Grimes wrote:

I remember somone saying somthing about the Uni predicting a 50% fail rate in 1st Arts this year

I'd expect a figure like that. In arts i think it's common for first years to sign up for three subjects and jsut not like one, not really knowing what they're getting into. They then fail this subject but pass the others. Which leads to high failure rate in 1st year.

Economaniac!

me no have results until the 6th, me not happy

Chakar

My fricking results aren't up other people have got them, and they're giving me hassle thinking I'm lying to them!!

Jeez ****ing results!

Riamfada

are you 1st year?

Chakar

Yeah I am!

Riamfada

the site was down earlier.

Chakar

http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=Exam+Results&word2=No+Exam+Results

Did a google fight between Exam Results and No Exam Results

Exam Results won!
Dont know if thats good or not?!

I'll keep checking SIS!

blondie83

Blowfish wrote:

I heard today that there was actually an 80% fail rate for the SEP in first year, so your definitely not alone B-K-DzR

thats absolutely crazy for a project - especially because you have to repeat the year with it. It can't be right though, they wouldnt have 80% of students repeating the year. Hard luck Scraggs, I know how it feels to be that dissapointed after putting in the work Abd BDZKR you should definitely get thyat project rechecked asap. Btw I echo Robins comment, whats all this about A's and B's and GPA's? In my day it was a first, 2-1, 2-2, pass or fail!

Chakar

blondie83 wrote:

Btw I echo Robins comment, whats all this about A's and B's and GPA's? In my day it was a first, 2-1, 2-2, pass or fail!

Its changed blondie, times change!!

irlrobins

Chakar wrote:

Its changed blondie, times change!!

Indeed.... hands up who remembers foster dollars??? Ah them were the days....

Blowfish

blondie83 wrote:

thats absolutely crazy for a project - especially because you have to repeat the year with it. It can't be right though, they wouldnt have 80% of students repeating the year. Hard luck Scraggs, I know how it feels to be that dissapointed after putting in the work Abd BDZKR you should definitely get thyat project rechecked asap. Btw I echo Robins comment, whats all this about A's and B's and GPA's? In my day it was a first, 2-1, 2-2, pass or fail!

Yeah it is crazy, but not all of them will have to repeat, like DaveMcG, some will pass by compensation.

Chinafoot

blondie83 wrote:

Btw I echo Robins comment, whats all this about A's and B's and GPA's? In my day it was a first, 2-1, 2-2, pass or fail!

To me it just screams "How American we make UCD?"

pretty*monster

Grimes wrote:

I remember somone saying somthing about the Uni predicting a 50% fail rate in 1st Arts this year

Yup, going on attendance and completion of corsework it was certainly speculated (by the BA programme board anyway) that 1st year failure rates would be up this year.

So well done to everyone who passed.

And I echo the As Bs and GPAs are weird sentiment.

Chakar

I did all my essays and coursework.Studied for my summer exams even in the Easter break when everyone was at USI.I passed my Xmas exams so hopefully later when I find out my results my work will have paid off.

rainbow kirby

Blowfish wrote:

but we managed to get 67%, despite the fact 2 of our group didn't write any code, so I don't know what the story with the first year one is, and why it was so bad.

I just wish we'd been given a breakdown of our marks... I only know that I have a 66% average for 2nd CS overall. For our project, 3 of the group wrote no code (6 in the group) and I wrote about 80% of the code overall... I know that the other 5 people in my group all failed 2nd CS though.

irlrobins

Breakdown is normally on the transcript they post out to you later in the summer. (Assuming they do such a thing still).

rainbow kirby

They didn't send out transcripts last year... I would have laughed if I'd seen mine, I had a 7.8% average last year

BKtje

Ah frick, is it really €500 to repeat that software eng project class? Frickety frick.

It depends. The cost of repeating the year is a % of the amount of credits you need. I payed 6,000 to do 1st year CS in comp sci (denominated) so 1 12th of €6k is 500 (+reg fees etc). If your doing it through arts then it would ve 1/12th of like €4k which is 334 ish.

This is guess work on my part going from the info thats available.

Joe said at the start of the year that it would be much harder than previous years so that we would be more able for the work in 2nd year which many found very tough. Meh

irlrobins

Well I'm sure if you contacted the exam office once the rush of phone calls due to results coming out die down they'll might provide you with breakdown.

Jonny Arson

Grimes wrote:

I remember somone saying somthing about the Uni predicting a 50% fail rate in 1st Arts this year

I do expect failure rates to be up this year due to the fragmentation of courses due to modularisation but if failure rates were at 50% for 1st Arts it would be quite damning for modularisation and the college authorities. From statisitics I've looked at, 1st Arts usually has around a 72% successful completion rate (after repeats) with on average about 15% of students actually failing the year, the rest withdrew or did not complete for various reasons.

Deleted User wrote:

Intro to Programming II A+

Intro to Comp Architecture A+

Physics of our Environment A+

Physics of the Quantum World A

Mathematical Modelling II A+

Mech & Special Relativity A+

Diff & Integral Calc A-


Good old first year exams. There's nothing like them.
Congratulations DaveMcG, you can go interrailing now!

Wow! Congratulations brains.

Chakar

Originally Posted by Aristotle
Intro to Programming II A+

Intro to Comp Architecture A+

Physics of our Environment A+

Physics of the Quantum World A

Mathematical Modelling II A+

Mech & Special Relativity A+

Diff & Integral Calc A-


Good old first year exams. There's nothing like them.
Congratulations DaveMcG, you can go interrailing now!

I concur, you obviously worked hard throughout the year.Well done to you!

orangerooster

My results are not up, I find this to be extremely frustrating.

orangerooster

Although that mild sense of frustration has now turned into one of happiness:

ENG 10040 Getting Medieval: Early Eng C+

PHIL 10050 Intro to Phil Anthropology C+

Disimproved on Christmas but considering one of the subjects is one I loathe with all my heart (Philosophy,which, I will now certainly never have to do again!) Im extremely happy.

Edit: Forgot to congratulate those who passed and stuff - well done! To those who didnt as long as you study pretty hard for August like I didnt last year you should have no bother. Was told last year that in philosophy its only one in ten who sit repeat papers fail so dont worry unless you're like me who was that one in ten due to not studying at all!