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Final Exam is an MCQ

no comment · 2007-04-13 15:34:42

I've just found out that 60% of one of my final exams will be Multiple Choice Questions. The exam will be alot easier to pass than an essay style exam for sure. I've not heard of any other university/department/school setting the standard so low before. Then again...maybe it's a ploy by the economics department to get…

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#32 20-04-2007 8:58pm

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Breezer wrote:

Actually bigjim, on a side note, does the pass mark go up to 70% eventually? Someone mentioned that to me a while back, not sure if they were trying to scare me. This was when our pass mark was 50%, before they made it 40% to bring it in line with the rest of UCD.

I think our pass mark was 50%, but that was for the whole subject, not just the MCQ. And you could fail the MCQ and still pass the subject by making up the slack in the written papers at the end. As far as I know that hasn't changed, and a pass med degree is 50% and anything below is a fail.

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#33 20-04-2007 10:15pm

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Ah, I see. Yeah I meant for the whole subject. I guess we're on a different system with the modularisation malarky. I'll worry about it when/if I get there I guess! Thanks

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