The help thread

princess-sprkle

ok, so this thread could possibly die on its arse.

But exams are looming! people are inevitably starting to panic about whats coming up, what to look at, what areas of the course to concentrate on, etc.

I'll get the ball rolling - Irish politics and policy (third year)
so apparently the questions are across multiple topics and not solely based on one topic. So possibly economy or institution angles? anybody

MuddyDog

comm 2nd year. we're all screwed for finance right?

Chakar

Yeah I do Irish Politics and Policy too. I'm not sure about the angle. I have the readings for the first and second topics on 'The state, government and governance' and 'Political parties and the party system, access to power' I'll need to get the readings in the fourth topic 'Governing the Economy' as that's linked to the first topic.

There's a good few of the readings on other topics that I've downloaded from Blackboard anyway.

I'm working on the final draft of my essay atm. Have you finished yours 'princess-sprkle'?

Stabshauptmann

MuddyDog wrote: »

comm 2nd year. we're all screwed for finance right?

FFS he gives you the paper

princess-sprkle

Chakar wrote: »

Yeah I do Irish Politics and Policy too. I'm not sure about the angle. I have the readings for the first and second topics on 'The state, government and governance' and 'Political parties and the party system, access to power' I'll need to get the readings in the fourth topic 'Governing the Economy' as that's linked to the first topic.

There's a good few of the readings on other topics that I've downloaded from Blackboard anyway.

I'm working on the final draft of my essay atm. Have you finished yours 'princess-sprkle'?

I should be finished tomorrow hopefully. Best thing ever having a an essay plan & draft though, at least i know what i'm writing is good! What one did you do?

Chakar

princess-sprkle wrote: »

I should be finished tomorrow hopefully. Best thing ever having a an essay plan & draft though, at least i know what i'm writing is good! What one did you do?

I agree. It makes you think about your subject matter with development of your analysis. I'm doing the question 'Are the unions too strong in Irish politics'. I'm arguing that the unions are 'not too strong' with analysis of social partnership and from a comparative view using the case studies of Italy and the Netherlands. What question are you doing?

redcar

MuddyDog wrote: »

comm 2nd year. we're all screwed for finance right?

Mmmm no. Were you not at the lectures for the last two weeks?! He has told us basically what is on the paper, short of giving us the actual paper we know exactly whats coming up.

Umaro

MuddyDog wrote: »

comm 2nd year. we're all screwed for finance right?

Man this is exactly what I thought last year. I thought that there was a good chance that I failed it, but I ended up getting an A+. He's really sound on marking Also, the guy gives so many tips, and the paper is very easy if you know the basic formulas. It's practically the same each year.

dhaddock

any help with GEOG10040 essay would be appreciated

Donald-Duck

I need someone to sit preferably all my second year exams. Except datastructures&algorithims and web multimedia.

This is what happens when you dont go to any lectures. Or practicals.

FledNanders

any wild guesses on who will be on section A of third year social theory?

also, what kind of questions are expected for habermas? there's so much!

MuddyDog

Kaptain Redeye wrote: »

FFS he gives you the paper

where can i get this paper?!

redcar wrote: »

Mmmm no. Were you not at the lectures for the last two weeks?! He has told us basically what is on the paper, short of giving us the actual paper we know exactly whats coming up.

ehhh i haven't been to that lecture in a while......you wouldn't wanna tell me what you know on what's coming up?!?!

MarkOShea

MuddyDog wrote: »

ehhh i haven't been to that lecture in a while......you wouldn't wanna tell me what you know on what's coming up?!?!

I'll do the honours....

Q1 is Capital Budgeting. Learn Adjusted Present Value.
Q2 is an essay on the World Financial Crisis.
Q3 is an essay on Raising Corporate Capital.
Q4 is in 2 parts. Half on the maths behind mergers (ie bootstrap effect) and half on Miller and Modigliani.
Q5 is on Options.
Q6 is half on derivatives and half on Capital Structure.

Do 4 of the 6 Q's.

So basically nearly everything is coming up! I reckon he'll mark the essays fairly easy if you're not into the mathsy stuff. He kind of said it himself...the essays are there so that people can pass the paper and then the other stuff is a bit more testing.

Edit: If there's anyone out there who's fairly good at this kind of stuff and would give me a grind, or even answer 1 or 2 short questions I have, please do PM!

farva

Just get the Peter Brady grind notes and you'll do really well. They were freely available last year so I presume that its the same this year!? Jimmy gives you more or less the same paper every year so you know whats coming up. Its a subject that is quite easy to do very well in!

princess-sprkle

Chakar wrote: »

I agree. It makes you think about your subject matter with development of your analysis. I'm doing the question 'Are the unions too strong in Irish politics'. I'm arguing that the unions are 'not too strong' with analysis of social partnership and from a comparative view using the case studies of Italy and the Netherlands. What question are you doing?

the accountability question, its going pretty well so far. most people seem to be doing the role of the church essay.

Cannibal Ox

FledNanders wrote: »

any wild guesses on who will be on section A of third year social theory?

also, what kind of questions are expected for habermas? there's so much!

Elias...? I've no idea really. I hope its not social complexity. As for Habermas, if you check the discussion board on BB, there's a thread about what the Q's might be like. If you know communicative action pretty well I reckon you'll be fine.

Anyone doing International Justice? I'm thinking of covering a bit of Singer and Rawl's, but I'm not really sure if thats enough.

FledNanders

Cannibal Ox wrote: »

Elias...? I've no idea really. I hope its not social complexity. As for Habermas, if you check the discussion board on BB, there's a thread about what the Q's might be like. If you know communicative action pretty well I reckon you'll be fine.

Reckon social complexity would be a handy one just to waffle away. I've given up studying habermas he's too time consuming and it's too much effort to try figure out what the **** he's on about so I'm taking the risk and hoping for 1 of the other 2 in section A!

Chakar

FledNanders wrote: »

Reckon social complexity would be a handy one just to waffle away. I've given up studying habermas he's too time consuming and it's too much effort to try figure out what the **** he's on about so I'm taking the risk and hoping for 1 of the other 2 in section A!

That's a big risk. The lecturer knows well that nobody would do Habermas if it wasn't a compulsory question.

FledNanders

ah ive basically passed the module already from essay and seminars so I'm not wasting my time on habermas when i could be using it for other subjects. There's WAY too much to cover for just 1 theorist

stardust_dublin

is there really though? thought there was just 3 main areas...kinda..and theres 3 questions for each so one of the main Q's on habermas has to come up...