The 100% guaranteed official summer exams thread!!!111!!!

dajaffa

Ballerina wrote:

(ok i know it seems like a minor problem to others but)

left on my ring during the massage practical!!!arrghhh the EASIEST exam in my LIFE and i throw away stupid marks.the words "i might just ask you to take off your ring" will haunt me i tells ya:mad:

Ah don't worry about it, look at the bright side you'll never do it again, and believe me better to do it now than during an electrotherapy exam cause you'd loose serious marks then, possible a fail. You'll only loose a couple of marks for doing it yesterday.

Ballerina

yea guess you're right

argh boards always seems that little bit EXTRA intersting when you're supposed to be studying!!so many threads that you normally wouldnt glance at lure you in!

Onearmedbandit

TheVan wrote:

I've got Strategy and Public International Law tomorrow.....

I swear to god, strategy is about twice the size of the biggest course I had previously ever done....there's no possible way to hold that much information in your head!

Fúcked doesn't even begin to describe it.....

Just had Strat fingers still burning from writing so fast 4 Essay quesitions in 3 hours is too much and subjects are so broad its unreal. Should have been 3 questions to make it more

Bring on Corporate governance

besty

I had the double header of Strategy and ECHR Law today. My hand feels like the 46a drove over it. Oh well, at least I get the respite of another exam tomorrow - allbeit not the most challenging one ever!

Cannibal Ox

Is anyone here doing analysing politics by any chance? I'm totally lost on what i should be studying for it, and I've got no idea what the papers going to be like.

Oh yeah, did anyone else notice the cars with the Fine Gael flags flying outside of the RDS Pavillion today? What's the bets every party will have a car representitive down there by friday?

And good luck

Tá Mé Gaeilge

singingstranger wrote:

Ouch... here's hoping for you dude, you haven't much luck in that regard lately...

yeah my wallets officially gone! It was gone this morning even though I left it there last night and I was one of last to leave the place. I feel terrible. Invigilators dont have it and cleaning staff say they saw nothing. Ah well I love getting stuff swiped these days!

princess-sprkle

Cannibal Ox wrote:

Is anyone here doing analysing politics by any chance? I'm totally lost on what i should be studying for it, and I've got no idea what the papers going to be like.

there'll be two questions on what is political science [kkv and stuff]
a question/2 on comparative case study methodology,
rational choice
elite interviewing
the theorists - popper etc
and an 8th one i can't remember - not looking good!
and thats it as far as i can remember! answer two Qs outta those.
i'd recommend doing elite interviewing & one from what is political theory, they're the easiest two questions.
hope it helps

drdre

Tá M&#233 wrote: »

left my fe*kin wallet in the exam hall after 6 o clock exam today!! so annoyed! i hope those lovely invigialtors pick it up?

Did you find your wallet?

Jonny Arson

drdre wrote:

Did you find your wallet?

hhmm *cough*

Tá M&#233 wrote: »

yeah my wallets officially gone! It was gone this morning even though I left it there last night and I was one of last to leave the place. I feel terrible. Invigilators dont have it and cleaning staff say they saw nothing. Ah well I love getting stuff swiped these days!

drdre

Jonny Arson wrote:

hhmm *cough*

Sorry i didnt read that post. Very sorry to hear the wallets gone

BKtje

Balls i mis read my Japanese exam for tomorrow when it was infact today!
BALLS

Next one tomorrow morning

(sicne i missed it do i have to do anything to tell them thta i fooked up or will they just stick me down as absent and have me repeat in december? Kicking myself here, )

mwrf

B-K-DzR wrote:

(sicne i missed it do i have to do anything to tell them thta i fooked up or will they just stick me down as absent and have me repeat in december? Kicking myself here, )

yeah,down as an absent.

humbert

B-K-DzR wrote:

Balls i mis read my Japanese exam for tomorrow when it was infact today!
BALLS

Next one tomorrow morning

(sicne i missed it do i have to do anything to tell them thta i fooked up or will they just stick me down as absent and have me repeat in december? Kicking myself here, )

Bad luck man, bit of a kick in the balls.

drdre

B-K-DzR wrote:

Balls i mis read my Japanese exam for tomorrow when it was infact today!
BALLS

Next one tomorrow morning

(sicne i missed it do i have to do anything to tell them thta i fooked up or will they just stick me down as absent and have me repeat in december? Kicking myself here, )

yeah its a repeat in december.Dont worry im doing afew then

Jonny Arson

B-K-DzR wrote:

Balls i mis read my Japanese exam for tomorrow when it was infact today!
BALLS

Next one tomorrow morning

(sicne i missed it do i have to do anything to tell them thta i fooked up or will they just stick me down as absent and have me repeat in december? Kicking myself here, )

Awhh sh!t man, saying that sucks doesn't do that justice.

I hope you've printed off your timetable now!

BKtje

yup and im gonna double check it daily.

Ah well guess it was due a **** up after taking it all a little too easy

To maths i go this morn!

dajaffa

Did my functional anatomy practical today. Kinda hard but the examiner was nice so *crosses fingers* should be grand. My evil day is tomorrow, ahhhhhh!

Waltons

Kicked off with Game Theory at 12 today. The exam was kinda tricky, but questions were fair - didn't enjoy the answer 4/4 though

Notorious

Yeah I had game theory today too, it was my second exam. Answering four out of four wasn't nice at all, but our lecturer is 'belling' up the marks so heres hoping !

Cannibal Ox

princess-sprkle wrote:

there'll be two questions on what is political science [kkv and stuff]
a question/2 on comparative case study methodology,
rational choice
elite interviewing
the theorists - popper etc
and an 8th one i can't remember - not looking good!
and thats it as far as i can remember! answer two Qs outta those.
i'd recommend doing elite interviewing & one from what is political theory, they're the easiest two questions.
hope it helps

Thank you sooooo much, I was studying almost nothing on that list

Vainglory

Kicked off with Critical Theory and Post-structuralism today (almost as fun as it sounds).

Paper was fine but I'm not sure how I'm supposed to write deep and meaningful answers about such high-falluting things as the Dialectic of Enlightenment with two pigeons ominously circling above my head.

UCD - The University of the Future - Yet we do our exams in a barn with birds in it. Hurrah!

cruiserweight

B-K-DzR wrote:

Balls i mis read my Japanese exam for tomorrow when it was infact today!
BALLS

Next one tomorrow morning

(sicne i missed it do i have to do anything to tell them thta i fooked up or will they just stick me down as absent and have me repeat in december? Kicking myself here, )

Sorry to hear that, that is how I missed my last driving test

Chakar

I had my first exam Identity, Diversity and Change on Tuesday, which went alright. I had a short exam in Qualitative Research Methods today, it was relatively straightforward with a question on literature reviews.

I have International Relations and Divided Societies on Friday and Saturday with my last exam in Democratic Theory on May 29.

abelard

Started with the old Constitutional Rights at noon. Went OK, which I'm happy enough with as I was dreading it.

They didn't have enough copies of the constitution for everyone though, alot of people had to share. Oh UCD, how I love thee.

Nichololas

rainbow kirby wrote:

Got my first exam tomorrow (Japanese Stage 3), and today I have the worst case of procrastination ever.

*sigh*

Hey, I had that yesterday too. How'd it go for you? I was 5 minutes late and they took 10 minutes to find another copy of the exam. Was furiously writing down the letter then when I looked up I still had 30 minutes for the rest of it, which took about 15.

Also, I'm finished this Saturday Earliest finisher of everyone I know. I'll be drinking alone, awesome.

Waltons

Notorious wrote:

Yeah I had game theory today too, it was my second exam. Answering four out of four wasn't nice at all, but our lecturer is 'belling' up the marks so heres hoping !

Yeah, hopefully the belling will make up for any stray marks

Just had Labour Economics, seemed to go pretty well. Glad to have the first day over with. I would say it's the worst, but it's not

Tá Mé Gaeilge

Mother dearest was so kind to fetch me a 6 pack of red bull so i'm in the middle of an all nighter. I have Company Law at 9- not even 6 cans of Red Bull can make Company Law remotely interesting

delta_bravo

High Middle Ages last night. Not too bad actually since the titles were easy enough to predict. Just glad its over:)

Frank Grimes

delta_bravo wrote:

High Middle Ages last night. Not too bad actually since the titles were easy enough to predict. Just glad its over:)

Yeah, I did the Ottomans question - not exactly how I was hoping the question would be asked but the exam wasn't too bad overall. I'm not looking forward to the Irish history though!

stolenwine

funky penguin wrote:

This has to be the worst map ever.

EDIT: ....................found the zoom button................ ¬_¬

lol it's located within the orange circle. Is it true that economics students have some multiple choice exams?

rainbow kirby

Enlil_Nick wrote:

Hey, I had that yesterday too. How'd it go for you? I was 5 minutes late and they took 10 minutes to find another copy of the exam. Was furiously writing down the letter then when I looked up I still had 30 minutes for the rest of it, which took about 15.

Also, I'm finished this Saturday Earliest finisher of everyone I know. I'll be drinking alone, awesome.

Went ok, started with pretty much everything but the letter, which meant I was on a serious speed-BS buzz for that! Reckon it went alright though. Now if only I could pull up some study motivation for Computer Graphics! :rolleyes:

funky penguin

Frank Grimes wrote:

Yeah, I did the Ottomans question - not exactly how I was hoping the question would be asked but the exam wasn't too bad overall. I'm not looking forward to the Irish history though!

w0000t!! Hundred years war and 12th century renaissance etc. I really haven't put an ounce of effort in the Irish History module.

Frank Grimes

funky penguin wrote:

w0000t!! Hundred years war and 12th century renaissance etc. I really haven't put an ounce of effort in the Irish History module.

Yeah same here, I'm going to be spending some quality time with Alvin Jackson over the next couple of days!

dajaffa

The topics I wanted came up in Cardioresp + Neurology earlier, now to study for the worst of them all, neurophysiology, AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH, it's on at 6 so if you see someone seriously panicking in the RDS later, it's probably me...

Tan Princess

stolenwine wrote:

lol it's located within the orange circle. Is it true that economics students have some multiple choice exams?

Yep, part of two of our exams are mcq.

Ballerina

i hate physiology ;(

good luck at 6 dajaffa....seriously...you poor thing

delta_bravo

Frank Grimes wrote:

Yeah same here, I'm going to be spending some quality time with Alvin Jackson over the next couple of days!

That book is great, has plenty of info but its a very slow read.
What are ye hoping on?
Im guessin the Act of Union has to come up since the course is called " Union and Disunion" and we didnt have that as an essay

Frank Grimes

delta_bravo wrote:

That book is great, has plenty of info but its a very slow read.

My feelings exactly!

What are ye hoping on?

Something famine and labour movement related with any luck, I'm going to go over some of the stuff I did for essays too I think. Literally anything from the course can be asked so it's not easy trying to narrow it down.

funky penguin

Hmmm, so they're not taking the route of the other module? Essay questions could be asked? Personally, I'm going for Famine and 1916.

Frank Grimes

funky penguin wrote:

Hmmm, so they're not taking the route of the other module? Essay questions could be asked? Personally, I'm going for Famine and 1916.

Nope, check the last lecture notes on Blackboard - basically anything can be asked!

elmyra

One down .

Six to go .

Ireland 1760-1800 was predictable and fair. I probably did fine, and could've done excellently had I bothered to study in sooner.

Ah well, there ya go!

Vainglory

Three down, six to go

Philosophy of Language was really fair, was very happy with it.
Nineteenth Century Paris equally so - and the lecturer told me outside that I got a first in the essay

Three day break now until next week which will be hell...exams on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday. Nice.

beanyb

I have so much resentment towards the exams office right now. I was right up the front and beside the divider thingy in Pavillions 1 & 2 today for my exam. They in their infinite wisdom decided it would be fine to start exams in Pavillion 3 at 3 when we started at 2, despite the fact that the only thing dividing the rooms is a metal fence.

So because I was right beside the fence, for about 15 minutes before 3 o'clock the noise was UNREAL. The exam didnt go great for me, because I pretty much blanked on one question getting dates mixed up and all the noise really wasnt helping my already fragile state of mind.

The guy in front of me complained to an invigilator about the noise and though he said he couldnt do anything about it he said we could have some extra time at the end to make up for it. But no, at 4 o'clock on the dot we had to hand up our papers.

Not to mention the guys who thought it'd be a great time to re-arrange things in the waiting area outside the exam hall while the exam was on. ARGH.

Vainglory

beanyb, you should get an extenuating circumstances form as soon as possible and fill it out including all those details. I'd imagine you can get them from the programme office or at the exam centre itself.

If you're in any way borderline they should push you over because of that - totally unacceptable.

beanyb

Wow, I didnt even know they existed! Thanks Vainglory!

I dont think I failed it or anything, not even close probably, but since it's finals and all I need to do well. And with the history department not giving us percentages from Christmas exams I dont know if I've a relatively safe 2:1 and therefore can deal with one crappish exam or if I'm borderline and a crappish exam could push me towards a 2:2.

Vainglory

They were brought in while I was Ed officer, it's a great idea. DCU have had them for bloody years.

You should definitely get one. At the very least it can't do any harm and might very well do some good. I think you have to get it signed by a student adviser or the students union welfare officer but either shouldn't be a problem.

Vainglory

Oh and...if none of the categories on the form exactly fits your situation then I'd advise attaching an explanatory note on a separate sheet. Hope that helps.

Try to sound as angry and outraged as possible.

Pride Fighter

Frank Grimes wrote:

Yeah, I did the Ottomans question - not exactly how I was hoping the question would be asked but the exam wasn't too bad overall. I'm not looking forward to the Irish history though!

Irish history sucks!! 40 euro for that Alvin Jackson book, what a rip off. I will just use my vast reserves of bs and kick ass, I hope. Good luck, from a fellow 1st year history student.

TheVan

Pride Fighter wrote:

40 euro for that Alvin Jackson book, what a rip off.

Try €350 for McGrath on Evidence or €250 for Corporate Finance Law


I'd cry with joy if my books were €40

Sarn

I'd definitely second the extenuating circumstances form or at least mail your module coordinator. There's very little that can be done but you could be given the benefit of the doubt if at a borderline grade. Doing it after you get your results is too late and won't garner much sympathy at that stage.