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tintinr35 · 17-12-2006 9:12pm #1

so whats the sceal with the results, when are they out?

beanyb · 17-12-2006 9:20pm

We go to UCD. They dont tell us things like that.

hullaballoo · 17-12-2006 9:25pm

You will get your results between January and March (subject to extenuating factors).

Stabshauptmann · 17-12-2006 10:16pm

The earliest possible date is 5 working days after the first "school board" or what ever its called meeting of the new term

JustCoz · 17-12-2006 10:32pm

January......2009

tintinr35 · 17-12-2006 11:13pm

between january and march.....thats a bit of a joke! oh well
cant wait to get out of this shít hole!

rainbow kirby · 18-12-2006 2:38am

tintinr35 wrote:

oh well cant wait to get out of this shít hole!

QFMFT!!

tintinr35 · 18-12-2006 3:15am

what??

Stargal · 18-12-2006 3:25am

Quoted for Mother-****ing Truth.

They're agreeing with you.

tintinr35 · 18-12-2006 5:01am

i see thanks

Mr_Roger_Bongos · 18-12-2006 4:37pm

As said before, all examination papers recieved by UCD up until this point, left on a container ship this morning, bound for panama. UCD get them back when the ship gets to panama, and they realise it doesn't fit through the canal anymore. So they're delivered back, then UCD marks them )or flushes them down the toilet, then you get your mark.

Jonny Arson · 18-12-2006 6:22pm

The registrar's email sent to me has confirmed ''Semester 1 assessments will be released on Monday the 29th of January.''

Mr_Roger_Bongos · 18-12-2006 7:32pm

/gets out handy U.C.D. translation pocket book

Zane from MTV2 wrote:

''Semester 1 assessments will be released on Monday the 29th of January.''

Translation - Late Febuary.

Whelo10 · 21-12-2006 11:41pm

I just got an email from UCD sayin that the results will be out on the Monday the 29th of January, whether thats January 2007, or 2008 im not sure though!!

aequinoctium · 23-12-2006 1:36am

jan 29th...or so they say

fish-head · 23-12-2006 1:44pm

Their get out clause is they didn't say which January. Crafty Brady.

elmyra · 06-01-2007 10:36pm

What a pile of twat. So what you're saying is I'll be back to college when they come out and I'll have to be surrounded by people who'll ask me how I did. That's not how it works. Exam results come out when college isn't on, you get them alone, and then if you've done well you contact people as and when you want to. If wireless goes down and/or there are impossible computer queues on the 29th, I'm writing a strongly worded letter...

gubbie · 06-01-2007 11:09pm

elmyra wrote:

What a pile of twat. So what you're saying is I'll be back to college when they come out and I'll have to be surrounded by people who'll ask me how I did. That's not how it works. Exam results come out when college isn't on, you get them alone, and then if you've done well you contact people as and when you want to. If wireless goes down and/or there are impossible computer queues on the 29th, I'm writing a strongly worded letter...

pish posh just tell them that you did grand and if they ask for anything else then tell them you don't like discussing them. Thats what I do whether they're good or bad so that people can never tell. I always find if you tell people then you automatically judge your result some way to theirs and that can either can make you feel superior or the other one

Dave! · 06-01-2007 11:40pm

elmyra wrote:

What a pile of twat. So what you're saying is I'll be back to college when they come out and I'll have to be surrounded by people who'll ask me how I did. That's not how it works. Exam results come out when college isn't on, you get them alone, and then if you've done well you contact people as and when you want to. If wireless goes down and/or there are impossible computer queues on the 29th, I'm writing a strongly worded letter...

Relax, nobody really gives a sh*t how you did, they're just being polite.

Red Alert · 07-01-2007 12:31pm

i have my spam filter trained to spot the VP students emails. be warned 1st years, results are never out on the day you expect.

delta_bravo · 07-01-2007 1:50pm

DaveMcG wrote:

Relax, nobody really gives a sh*t how you did, they're just being polite.

Were you being supportive there or just plain mean?:)

Dave! · 07-01-2007 7:23pm

A little bit from column A, a little bit from column B......... ¬_¬

valor · 08-01-2007 12:47am

how can it take so fkin long to mark some papers, so annoying

The_Minister · 08-01-2007 12:58am

valor wrote:

how can it take so fkin long to mark some papers, so annoying

There are about 22000 students in UCD.

rain on · 08-01-2007 1:07am

The_Minister wrote:

There are about 22000 students in UCD.

Subtract about 2,000 that aren't sitting exams (postgrads, unmodularised final years, etc), multiply that by.. ooo, say an average of five exams per student, throw in the fact that staff would like a few days off for Christmas if that's not too much to ask thankyouverymuch, and it's pretty obvious why those 100,000 papers haven't been marked yet. Not to mention that once they are marked, school boards or somesuch have to meet and agree that the marking has been done properly.
There's also the thing of people not filling in their MCQs properly and some poor eejit having to sit there and rub out every single wrongly-entered exam/student number and put it in properly (yes, I had to do this for several thousand MCQs, yes, I am bitter) which completely defeats the point of MCQs. All these things add up.

Pantsless · 08-01-2007 11:28am

There is no difference between the results coming out on the 1st of Jan or the 29th April you are still going to get the same grade. Whats the point in thinking about them ? Worry when you get confirmation of your failure

Umaro · 08-01-2007 10:56pm

Who said we're failures.. I guarantee everyone will get at least one A grade..

Stabshauptmann · 08-01-2007 11:00pm

are you a betting man?

Pythia · 09-01-2007 8:16am

rain on wrote:

it's pretty obvious why those 100,000 papers haven't been marked yet.

AFAIK, pretty much all the papers would be marked at this stage. If a lecturer had about 200 exam scripts, marking 20 a day would take a week and a half. Pretty quick really.

Sarn · 09-01-2007 9:03am

It depends when the lecturer receives the scripts, how many modules they have to correct, number of students in a class etc. As exams were held up to the 21st December with everyone finishing on the 22nd with 2 weeks holidays....(with some time dedicated to correcting scripts) it could take a while. Most scripts should be corrected by the end of this week though.

All of the marks/grades need to be compiled for each student, med certs checked, everything double checked. As mentioned above these then need to go to an exam board (usually with another board held before this) before results are released. Also if you happened to have exams which are not modularised there may be a further delay due to scheduling of exam boards.

rain on · 09-01-2007 2:17pm

Pythia wrote:

AFAIK, pretty much all the papers would be marked at this stage. If a lecturer had about 200 exam scripts, marking 20 a day would take a week and a half. Pretty quick really.

The actual marking is only part of the procedure though, there's a lot of technical admin stuff that has to be done before and after the scripts are marked, and that's really what's so time-consuming.

ETA: which is pretty much exactly what Sarn said.

*whistles*

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