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    #6212
    spartacus815
    Registered Users Posts: 130 ✭✭spartacus815


    not really coding, u learn a bit of it, but not alot. It's just a description of the various software/applications you can use to understand genomes and evolutionary relationships and you have some computer practicals where you see the software in action


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    #6213
    suitcasepink
    Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 7,849 Mod ✭✭✭✭suitcasepink


    Wish I understood economics :))


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    #6214
    Pudsy33
    Registered Users Posts: 10,772 ✭✭✭✭Pudsy33


    deise_girl wrote: »
    Wish I understood economics :))

    You doing ec101b tomorrow?


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    #6215
    aaabbbb
    Registered Users Posts: 1,674 ✭✭✭aaabbbb


    deise_girl wrote: »
    Wish I understood economics :))

    Wish I could do Stats Stupid stupid bell curves :mad:


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    #6216
    RobbingBandit
    Registered Users Posts: 18,140 ✭✭✭✭RobbingBandit


    Wish I had an eidetic memory.

    Is failing an exam so miserably you want to die afterwards better than not doing it at all.


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    #6217
    aaabbbb
    Registered Users Posts: 1,674 ✭✭✭aaabbbb


    RobbingBandit wrote: »
    Wish I had an eidetic memory.

    Is failing an exam so miserably you want to die afterwards better than not doing it at all.

    Yes because at least you tried


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    #6218
    suitcasepink
    Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 7,849 Mod ✭✭✭✭suitcasepink


    Pudsy33 wrote: »
    You doing ec101b tomorrow?

    In theory yes, I might run in the opposite direction of the exam centre yet though!


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    #6219
    Pudsy33
    Registered Users Posts: 10,772 ✭✭✭✭Pudsy33


    deise_girl wrote: »
    In theory yes, I might run in the opposite direction of the exam centre yet though!
    You'll be grand! I'm packing in it for tonight and I'll try study tomorrow, good thing it's the late exam.


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    #6220
    thirteen.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 609 ✭✭✭thirteen.


    aaabbbb wrote: »
    Wish I could do Stats Stupid stupid bell curves :mad:

    I'm ok with stats, but Calculus on Saturday is going to kill me.


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    #6221
    PopePalpatine
    Registered Users Posts: 11,941 ✭✭✭✭PopePalpatine


    I'm so glad I'm done with calculus.


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    #6222
    aaabbbb
    Registered Users Posts: 1,674 ✭✭✭aaabbbb


    thirteen. wrote: »
    I'm ok with stats, but Calculus on Saturday is going to kill me.

    The time its at being 9:30 on a Saturday has me freaked I'm gonna miss it !:(


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    #6223
    Planemo
    Registered Users Posts: 587 ✭✭✭Planemo


    spartacus815 wrote: »
    How I sum up studying for the bioinformatics exam for Thursday
    I'm doing the 3rd year module for that, literally no idea how to study for it.
    My Biology modules are actually harder than the Physics ones. We're through the looking glass, people.


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    #6224
    Boeing777
    Registered Users Posts: 699 ✭✭✭Boeing777


    Planemo wrote: »
    My Biology modules are actually harder than the Physics ones. We're through the looking glass, people.

    I agree with that. My Chemistry modules are a lot easier than Biology. I think Chemistry and Physics are just more accessible to study than Biology. I really didn't think Biology would come down to just rote learning essays :( With Chemistry and Physics you have to understand things and not just 'know' it like Biology. That's my view anyway!


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    #6225
    aaabbbb
    Registered Users Posts: 1,674 ✭✭✭aaabbbb


    Boeing777 wrote: »
    I agree with that. My Chemistry modules are a lot easier than Biology. I think Chemistry and Physics are just more accessible to study than Biology. I really didn't think Biology would come down to just rote learning essays :( With Chemistry and Physics you have to understand things and not just 'know' it like Biology. That's my view anyway!

    Wouldn't just learning things off not be easier than having to actually understand them ?

    Thats why I prefer Biology anyway ! Even if you don't understand you can just learn it and it'll be fine.

    I hate studying being stuck there with a problem and not being able to solve it or having the wrong answer after solving it but not knowing why ! Where with Biology if you don't know an answer you can just look in the book/notes and its there , so you know if you were right or wrong.


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    #6226
    Planemo
    Registered Users Posts: 587 ✭✭✭Planemo


    aaabbbb wrote: »
    Wouldn't just learning things off not be easier than having to actually understand them ?

    Thats why I prefer Biology anyway ! Even if you don't understand you can just learn it and it'll be fine.

    I hate studying being stuck there with a problem and not being able to solve it or having the wrong answer after solving it but not knowing why ! Where with Biology if you don't know an answer you can just look in the book/notes and its there , so you know if you were right or wrong.
    I just thought that at this point, the exam questions would be more "Use the concepts you've studied to explain this scenario" and less "regurgitate the concepts word for word with some shítty diagrams to boot".


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    #6227
    aaabbbb
    Registered Users Posts: 1,674 ✭✭✭aaabbbb


    Planemo wrote: »
    I just thought that at this point, the exam questions would be more "Use the concepts you've studied to explain this scenario" and less "regurgitate the concepts word for word with some shítty diagrams to boot".

    But you cant bate an aul spot of colouring in an exam !


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    #6228
    Planemo
    Registered Users Posts: 587 ✭✭✭Planemo


    True, I have my gel pens packed and ready to go :pac:


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    #6229
    spartacus815
    Registered Users Posts: 130 ✭✭spartacus815


    Planemo wrote: »
    I'm doing the 3rd year module for that, literally no idea how to study for it.
    My Biology modules are actually harder than the Physics ones. We're through the looking glass, people.

    We're both in the same class. I'm one of the 14 masters students in the 3rd year class and we're all literally bricking it for the exam.


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    #6230
    aaabbbb
    Registered Users Posts: 1,674 ✭✭✭aaabbbb


    Planemo wrote: »
    True, I have my gel pens packed and ready to go :pac:

    Half my exams through my degree are probably colouring :pac:

    Though we write a bit too :p

    Instead of Bsc Biological and Biomedical science it should be renamed " Bsc Complex scientific coloring and regurgitation of literature sciences "


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    #6231
    Planemo
    Registered Users Posts: 587 ✭✭✭Planemo


    spartacus815 wrote: »
    We're both in the same class. I'm one of the 14 masters students in the 3rd year class and we're all literally bricking it for the exam.
    Oh, our exam isn't till the 29th. Extra week to cry study, I'm so lucky!


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    #6232
    spartacus815
    Registered Users Posts: 130 ✭✭spartacus815


    Planemo wrote: »
    Oh, our exam isn't till the 29th. Extra week to cry study, I'm so lucky!

    Good luck anyways. I did well in the CA bit of the course, but I do want to do well in this. David's stuff seems ok, and James bit is a bit more complex. We have two sections A and B and we answer two essay questions, one from section a and one from B in two hours (standard biology format paper lol)


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    #6233
    Planemo
    Registered Users Posts: 587 ✭✭✭Planemo


    spartacus815 wrote: »
    Good luck anyways.
    You too, I think we're gonna need it!


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    #6234
    PictureFrame
    Registered Users Posts: 3,989 ✭✭✭PictureFrame


    Heyor lads if ye wanna know pain.

    One of the 2nd year Psychology modules is on Thought and Language. Sounds interesting right?

    NO

    One of the questions is devoted to the structure of sentences...


    I genuinely just can't


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    #6235
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 3,518 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    PictureFrame wrote: »

    I genuinely just can't

    Try finishing the sentences. It'll get ya good attempt marks :P


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    #6236
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 3,518 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    spartacus815 wrote: »
    Good luck anyways. I did well in the CA bit of the course, but I do want to do well in this. David's stuff seems ok, and James bit is a bit more complex. We have two sections A and B and we answer two essay questions, one from section a and one from B in two hours (standard biology format paper lol)

    I think Bioinformatics has 5 short questions worth 10 marks each and one long essay question worth 50 marks. I don't know if you guys have a different paper though.


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    #6237
    suitcasepink
    Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 7,849 Mod ✭✭✭✭suitcasepink


    Pudsy33 wrote: »
    You'll be grand! I'm packing in it for tonight and I'll try study tomorrow, good thing it's the late exam.

    I more or less finished up at 9pm yesterday and 12 hours later I regret everything. I've actually never been so worried about an exam before! But yea thank god its half 3, Im going to need that amount of time..


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    #6238
    Boeing777
    Registered Users Posts: 699 ✭✭✭Boeing777


    aaabbbb wrote: »
    Wouldn't just learning things off not be easier than having to actually understand them ?

    Thats why I prefer Biology anyway ! Even if you don't understand you can just learn it and it'll be fine.

    I hate studying being stuck there with a problem and not being able to solve it or having the wrong answer after solving it but not knowing why ! Where with Biology if you don't know an answer you can just look in the book/notes and its there , so you know if you were right or wrong.

    Nope, I'm the total opposite. It takes me so much time to learn something off :o I much prefer to understand something and link it with what I already know. If I understand something well enough I can write an essay on it. That's just the type of learner I am. I'm doing Science Ed as well so I can't really afford to learn something off without knowing why/how because I might have to teach it someday.


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    #6239
    spartacus815
    Registered Users Posts: 130 ✭✭spartacus815


    Deleted User wrote: »
    I think Bioinformatics has 5 short questions worth 10 marks each and one long essay question worth 50 marks. I don't know if you guys have a different paper though.

    Yeah it's different. Our module code is BI607 so different format to BI315.


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    #6240
    XxMCRxBabyxX
    Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 7,439 Mod ✭✭✭✭XxMCRxBabyxX


    Boeing777 wrote: »
    Nope, I'm the total opposite. It takes me so much time to learn something off :o I much prefer to understand something and link it with what I already know. If I understand something well enough I can write an essay on it. That's just the type of learner I am. I'm doing Science Ed as well so I can't really afford to learn something off without knowing why/how because I might have to teach it someday.

    I'm the same with my subjects. A lot of people approach law with a learn everything off technique but I'm more about understanding the cases so I can approach the question. Problem questions are great for that too. This is also why I always do terribly in History exams.


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    #6241
    banquo
    Registered Users Posts: 9,487 ✭✭✭banquo


    I have gotten google ads for _nothing_ but lingerie for a few weeks now. I think Google is hitting on me.


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