Exams...

I've got these:

Mechanics of Fluids
Dynamics
Stress Analysis
Thermodynamics :( :( :(
Mathematics I :)
Mathematics II :)

Maths I and II should be a walk in the park. Dynamics revision is getting there. I'm still trying to get my head around moments of inertia and constraint equations. Mechanics of Fluids revision is on hold as I skipped ahead and had a look to see it's pretty decent and can be done in a day as long as I get the important stuff done now. Stress Analysis can be done in 6 hours apparantly, so i'm going to start that at 4 and finish at 10ish give or take a few hours as i'm starting from scratch.

Thermodynamics :(
It's a nightmare of a unit. Absolute nightmare! Entropy Energy diagrams! Temprature! Unstable equilibrium! Carnot Efficiency and Rankle cycles. :(
I reckon i'm going to have to do a late summer resit for Thermo, which I don't want to because my august will be gone due to revision.

Wish I did a coursework based course now! :p
 
Never understood people who stressed. If you fail, you fail, i.e. you aren't good enough. I found revising cheating myself. My personal belief is that all modern exams require little intelligence other than memory. If you have a good memory, memorise facts, you do well. This is fundamental at GCSE/A-level.

Therefore, from my first ever exam to date, i have never, ever revised. As if you haven't figured it out in 3 years, you're just bluffing your way through it.
 
Cancel the pre-order and do some work. Then have a gaming binge if you must! (far better to have good times with friends though :D)

I've done that so many times.. buying a game before exams and it always impedes on revision.
 
V3g3tto said:
Never understood people who stressed. If you fail, you fail, i.e. you aren't good enough. I found revising cheating myself. My personal belief is that all modern exams require little intelligence other than memory. If you have a good memory, memorise facts, you do well. This is fundamental at GCSE/A-level.

Therefore, from my first ever exam to date, i have never, ever revised. As if you haven't figured it out in 3 years, you're just bluffing your way through it.
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Strange way of thinking there :p

Usually the people who do lots of revision end up with straight As/A*s so I'm not sure if I agree with that philosophy.
 
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Ricochet J said:
I've got these:

Thermodynamics :(
It's a nightmare of a unit. Absolute nightmare! Entropy Energy diagrams! Temprature! Unstable equilibrium! Carnot Efficiency and Rankle cycles. :(
I reckon i'm going to have to do a late summer resit for Thermo, which I don't want to because my august will be gone due to revision.
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I hated thermofluids with a passion and wasn't naturally inclined to being any good at it - but I tell you what, I just knuckled down for a few weeks, missioned through all the practice questions, read the books, did some background reading and I scraped enough information and skill together to pass the exam :)

So get to it and suck it up, Soldier! You'll be fine. Hell, you might even just enjoy it.
 
Mine don't start till next month. Only got 3 this semester since I took 6 last one :cool:

I have:
- Operating Systems
Tons of theory, a lot of info to learn but not "that" hard.
- Real time programming
Quite tricky a lot of new concepts to learn.
- Systems and Network Security
Should be easy.

My final lot of exams ever at uni. Not that fussed how they go so long as I pass. party/holiday time till sept then into my full time job.
 
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Lashout_UK said:
I hated thermofluids with a passion and wasn't naturally inclined to being any good at it - but I tell you what, I just knuckled down for a few weeks, missioned through all the practice questions, read the books, did some background reading and I scraped enough information and skill together to pass the exam :)

So get to it and suck it up, Soldier! You'll be fine. Hell, you might even just enjoy it.
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Thanks for that! I needed it. Infact, i'm logging out now. Cheers :)
 
V3g3tto said:
Never understood people who stressed. If you fail, you fail, i.e. you aren't good enough. I found revising cheating myself. My personal belief is that all modern exams require little intelligence other than memory. If you have a good memory, memorise facts, you do well. This is fundamental at GCSE/A-level.

Therefore, from my first ever exam to date, i have never, ever revised. As if you haven't figured it out in 3 years, you're just bluffing your way through it.
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I managed to blag my GCSE's and A levels with no revision at all, but now I'm doing a degree revision is a must really, there's no chance that I could remember everything and I'm only in the second year, so I've only done 24 modules so far but it is still a lot of content, a lot of it you have to know inside out and can't just figure out on the day. Revising is hardly cheating though, everyone does it and by not revising you are putting yourself at a major disadvantage to everyone else. I'm finding it hard to revise though as I've never bothered before

I've got 7 exams coming up as well over 12 days, from the beginning of may, so I am waiting till after then go buy GTA4 aswell :D

Good luck to everyone else with exams :)
 
Spanish Oral on 28th, GCSE level, glad I'm now out of AS French or that would've been on the 23rd!

After that it's 12th of May my real exams begin, AS Computing, GCSE RS (it was forced on me!) next...then a load more :/
 
Ok, ok, maybe i'm not telling the whole story here, i did subjects i already knew..ok :D

I coulda sat all my exams,etc from day one. My dissertation took 5-6hrs inbetween breakfasts.

What i'm saying is, although facts,etc are important, the reliance of exams requiring 'memorising' things (for the most part) out of textbooks, just doesn't seem a good way to test a students skill/intelligence.

There's not enough "how would you do this?" or "what do you think?"

Instead, you get graduates coming out with statistics and stuff like "In economics, Adam Smith described this as the invisble hand...". That isn't going to help any employer to be honest.

Scrap all pointless tests and especially coursework (ffs, i did all my mates uni work for him, he got a 2:1?!) and make the majority hands on. No one can deny that's good for our future workforce.
 
I'm working towards a Diploma in Financial Planning and have the first of the J series exams on Monday. Its J01 Personal Taxation.

I've run out of the easy ones where a couple of read throughs of the coursework would do the trick. :)

Theres 7 altogether but I only need 4 to be qualified to diploma level and then its on to chartered status.
 
My first is a Mathematics C4 exam for A-level on the 21st of May. 'Not really looking forward to that. I only have around 5 altogether, though, as I'm not re-sitting any of the January modules.
 
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Instead, you get graduates coming out with statistics and stuff like "In economics, Adam Smith described this as the invisble hand...". That isn't going to help any employer to be honest.
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Where did you study and what did you do?!? My economics course certainly isn't like that, the whole bloody thing is maths with a bit of explanation on the side. Statistics mean jack **** if you don't know the meaning behind them, too.
 
Mad old tory said:
Where did you study and what did you do?!? My economics course certainly isn't like that, the whole bloody thing is maths with a bit of explanation on the side. Statistics mean jack **** if you don't know the meaning behind them, too.
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I'm not talking about degree level lol. But i did A-level Economics then Business Management w/ Economics (Majored I.T. though, then purely I.T. 3rd year).

Also i'm not saying it's all stats like i mentioned. It's just crap that the people who write the books are assumed super-beings and nothing is questioned, debated or discussed. It's just "He said this. Memorise it, take notes, then remember to quote it in your exam".

School standards have been slipping for years, government say there's such a huge pass rate because children are getting smarter lol or recieving awesome education. I fear we'll never get to see the minds of the early/mid 20th century again.
 
Moses99p said:
Just remembering facts really does not help you in subjects like history at a level... the bints I knew that just remembered facts all failed miserably. :)
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Memorising facts and having good exam technique can get you a long way though, it does depend on the subject slightly as there are some that you can't bluff easily.

V3g3tto said:
Scrap all pointless tests and especially coursework (ffs, i did all my mates uni work for him, he got a 2:1?!) and make the majority hands on. No one can deny that's good for our future workforce.
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Except in areas where theory is important, some subjects simply are not easily translatable to "hands-on" learning in a classroom. You either need to be out there in practice or you learn the theory until it comes to going out to practice. Also just because you helped your mate plagarise isn't a particularly great argument for not allowing courseworks, that is the system not cracking down adequately on cheating - I don't know how long ago you passed through uni but most now should have anti-plagarism software to check any submissions, not foolproof but better than nothing.

For what it matters I do think uni involves a lot of 'wasted' time and could easily be condensed further but that would also be missing out on a lot of the learning about life that you do outwith the classroom.
 
Ive got my exams in 4 weeks time only problem is that I'm not going to be back I'm uni for at least another 2 weeks. :mad: :(
 
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