Little advice please

It's a stag do, not the wedding. There'll be other times in your life to get banjo'd and hang out with strippers but there probably won't be many other opportunities to get a first.

Tell him you messed up your timings, admit your'e an arse, promise to make it up to him through the medium of beer at a later date, and get your first.
 
if you were my brother i wouldn't let you come on the stag. Your life/future is much more important that was amounts to a drinking sesh.
 
Surely it's better to go on the stag and take it very easy, even have the Sunday night off to revise in your room?

The sensible option is of course not to, but taking the sensible option at every opportunity will be just as detrimental to life as missing the exam.

Just square it with him what the situation is, and tell him you're staying in the room on Sunday night.

I mean, you've been studying for how long? And revising for how long? If not revising for two nights in the run up to your exam is the difference between flunking it and acing it, then it's not a very good exam!

If you don't go at all, you will look back on it and regret - even if it is the right decision. Go, blow out Friday night, have a relaxed session on Saturday, sleep Sunday until dinner, then hit the books.
 
Ahleckz said:
What does your resit policy say?
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My universities always said that if you wanted to resit it, you could, but you could only get as high a mark as 40% (i.e. the pass mark). A bit of a problem the OP has. I wouldn't want to do it, but I missed Hull City's Wembley Playoff Final because I had an exam on the Saturday morning (yes you read that right, Saturday morning!). I was gutted to miss it at the time but glad I got good exam grades!
 
Think im going for revision until we get there on friday, stay out on friday but make sure I don't make it a late one, go out saturday during the day then study a decent amount saturday night and sunday.

I've written notes for the course and lots of the material I put into practice during the actual project so im sure that will will me out. Reckon I can get a decent 20/30 if I put the plan into practice which would do for around 80 in the module
 
(ST)Pohaku said:
Surely it's better to go on the stag and take it very easy, even have the Sunday night off to revise in your room?

The sensible option is of course not to, but taking the sensible option at every opportunity will be just as detrimental to life as missing the exam.

Just square it with him what the situation is, and tell him you're staying in the room on Sunday night.

I mean, you've been studying for how long? And revising for how long? If not revising for two nights in the run up to your exam is the difference between flunking it and acing it, then it's not a very good exam!

If you don't go at all, you will look back on it and regret - even if it is the right decision. Go, blow out Friday night, have a relaxed session on Saturday, sleep Sunday until dinner, then hit the books.
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I don't think it's an issue of missing revision time, more of being well rested and able to perform at your best during the exam. Even going to Amsterdam and not drinking is hardly a formula for performing well. The travel and inevitable lack of sleep will take it out of you even if you manage not to drink. What happens if you get held up in Amsterdam with travel delays? Do they let you re-sit?
 
Fly out have heavey night friday fly back saturday, or stay and pass that exam no point failing your exam arfter all the work you have done. Like you said last one did not go to well
 
If my best man didn't come to my stag do I'd be very disappointed. It would mean a lot to him for you to be there and help him when his head is stuck down a toilet too!
Why not just play the illness card?
 
physichull said:
My universities always said that if you wanted to resit it, you could, but you could only get as high a mark as 40% (i.e. the pass mark). A bit of a problem the OP has. I wouldn't want to do it, but I missed Hull City's Wembley Playoff Final because I had an exam on the Saturday morning (yes you read that right, Saturday morning!). I was gutted to miss it at the time but glad I got good exam grades!
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Yeah, that's why I asked. My Uni (Strathclyde) is faculty dependent. Some faculties give you whatever mark you get in the resit as your mark but others will only give you 40%.
 
Pretty sure my uni follows the 40% rule on resits as well unless it has been missed for a valid reason. For example I was set to resit an exam I missed due to an operation and my scores would not have been limited, I missed it again due to illness and they just gave me my average mark.

Just heading off on it today and taking the hit, reckon 20/30 is a possibility if I can maintain the schedule above
 
The funny thing is I'm sure a family wedding or whatnot will count as extenuating circumstances. Or at least you should have approached your e.g. academic supervisor etc., and told him about upcoming family things. He/she may have allowed you to suspend your exam until the resit period, at which point you'd have been ok to take it as 'first time'.
 
Grow a pair and go and just don't drink, if you're too weak willed to drink moderately don't drink at all. And you don't 'need' alcohol to have a good time - besides you can concentrate on your bro having a great time and making sure he doesn't end up dead in a gutter :)
 
Rich_L said:
Grow a pair and go and just don't drink, if you're too weak willed to drink moderately don't drink at all. And you don't 'need' alcohol to have a good time - besides you can concentrate on your bro having a great time and making sure he doesn't end up dead in a gutter :)
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This.

On my best mates stag I barely drunk because I was more worried about making sure he had a good time, and made it home safely.

Still had an awesome time :)
 
I'd study all of today, tonight and first thing tomorrow. Go on the stag and have a great time on Saturday night.

I wouldn't want to miss my brother's stag if I was the best man. You've got all of today to study. A break before your exam might do you some good.
 
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