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    #152
    samsamson
    Registered Users Posts: 376 ✭✭samsamson


    It'll all depend on transport. If Dublin Bus buckles again and hundreds of people can't make it to their exams, they're gonna have to postpone them.


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    #153
    WolfForager
    Registered Users Posts: 4,532 ✭✭✭WolfForager


    I see. Living in the mountains sucks, could end not being able to make it into the exams if it gets too bad (here).


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    #154
    Sierra Oscar
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 8,503 CMod ✭✭✭✭Sierra Oscar


    misslt wrote: »
    First one tomorrow...then thurs, fri, mon & tues...i hate them being so late!!

    Im not finished until next Wednesday - and I started last Saturday. Talk about this all being a drag.

    :mad:


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    #155
    Iwasfrozen
    Registered Users Posts: 16,250 ✭✭✭✭Iwasfrozen


    Sierra Oscar wrote: »
    Im not finished until next Wednesday - and I started last Saturday. Talk about this all being a drag.

    :mad:
    I'm in the same boat. :(


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    #156
    nbrady20009
    Registered Users Posts: 260 ✭✭nbrady20009


    Sierra Oscar wrote: »
    Im not finished until next Wednesday - and I started last Saturday. Talk about this all being a drag.

    :mad:

    Yea mine are going on til Tuesday. At least there is time to "study" (*go on boards*)


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    #157
    Iwasfrozen
    Registered Users Posts: 16,250 ✭✭✭✭Iwasfrozen


    nbrady20009 wrote: »
    Yea mine are going on til Tuesday. At least there is time to "study" (*go on boards*)
    That is if the exams aren't postponed.


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    #158
    CrazyFish
    Registered Users Posts: 211 ✭✭CrazyFish


    Iwasfrozen wrote: »
    That is if the exams aren't postponed.
    Don't put the mockers on it. Would hate to have to do an exam after Christmas. Just want to get them out of the way on Wednesday and enjoy the rest of the Christmas.


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    #159
    Iwasfrozen
    Registered Users Posts: 16,250 ✭✭✭✭Iwasfrozen


    CrazyFish wrote: »
    Don't put the mockers on it. Would hate to have to do an exam after Christmas. Just want to get them out of the way on Wednesday and enjoy the rest of the Christmas.
    I wouldn't mind if it ment I could rely on the buses.


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    #160
    Pandoras Twist
    Registered Users Posts: 1,362 ✭✭✭Pandoras Twist


    muffinz wrote: »
    how do we know what hall to go to for each exam?:confused:

    Ok so, my bus goes through the city centre and then out to UCD. It passes by the Dublin Bus building with all the buses, at the crossroads. Where do I go from here to get to the RDS?

    Or get the 4 or the 7 from the city centre


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    #161
    bnt
    Registered Users Posts: 13,010 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    WolfForager wrote: »
    I see. Living in the mountains sucks, could end not being able to make it into the exams if it gets too bad (here).
    Well, it is University College Dublin, not University College Glendalough. There is the Extenuating Circumstances process for such cases - but there can be up to 10,000 exam sittings each day, so how would you expect special treatment?

    Death has this much to be said for it:
    You don’t have to get out of bed for it.
    Wherever you happen to be
    They bring it to you—free.

    — Kingsley Amis



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    #162
    WolfForager
    Registered Users Posts: 4,532 ✭✭✭WolfForager


    bnt wrote: »
    Well, it is University College Dublin, not University College Glendalough. There is the Extenuating Circumstances process for such cases - but there can be up to 10,000 exam sittings each day, so how would you expect special treatment?

    Where did i say i expected special treatment pray tell? I was asking how much snow it would take in dublin to postpone the exams, not as you implied glendalough.


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    #163
    Iwasfrozen
    Registered Users Posts: 16,250 ✭✭✭✭Iwasfrozen


    bnt wrote: »
    Well, it is University College Dublin, not University College Glendalough. There is the Extenuating Circumstances process for such cases - but there can be up to 10,000 exam sittings each day, so how would you expect special treatment?
    It's not special treatment it's equal treatment. The exams should be rescheduled untill the weather clears and everyone can make it in.


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    #164
    Chet T16
    Registered Users Posts: 2,320 ✭✭✭Chet T16


    bnt wrote: »
    Well, it is University College Dublin, not University College Glendalough. There is the Extenuating Circumstances process for such cases - but there can be up to 10,000 exam sittings each day, so how would you expect special treatment?

    You are Alan Hunter and i claim my five pounds.


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    #165
    valor
    Registered Users Posts: 3,296 ✭✭✭valor


    Anyone know how accounting exams are marked in terms of method / actual answer? If there's 10 points for a question and you have the right method but get one figure wrong, are you getting the majority of the marks?


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    #166
    Chet T16
    Registered Users Posts: 2,320 ✭✭✭Chet T16


    valor wrote: »
    Anyone know how accounting exams are marked in terms of method / actual answer? If there's 10 points for a question and you have the right method but get one figure wrong, are you getting the majority of the marks?

    Yep, the money is in the method


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    #167
    antomorro-sei
    Registered Users Posts: 1,969 ✭✭✭antomorro-sei


    Finito!


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    #168
    bnt
    Registered Users Posts: 13,010 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    It's up to individual examiners, of course, but in general they'll give credit for the method, and a slip of the calculator isn't a disaster. Sometimes the result of one question carries forward in to another, but (if you ask me) that's bad exam design. :cool:

    Death has this much to be said for it:
    You don’t have to get out of bed for it.
    Wherever you happen to be
    They bring it to you—free.

    — Kingsley Amis



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    #169
    HavingCrack
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,847 ✭✭✭HavingCrack


    FINISHED :D


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    #170
    **Timbuk2**
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators Posts: 7,395 Mod ✭✭✭✭**Timbuk2**


    In Accounting answers can very often carry into the next part of a question (not bad design, just the nature of accounting) but I think the norm is to penalise you once for the mistake and not to penalise you for another wrong figure that is wrong because of the already penalised figure.


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    #171
    Lucet
    Registered Users Posts: 175 ✭✭Lucet


    Hey guys, when are you filling the extenuating circumstances form (got sick during the exams AGAIN this winter), do I have to write the exams missed in the box where it says "details of assessments missed"? Or is it just for the exams and mcq's during the teaching term?


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