Uni & Degrees

Red Porsche · 19 May 2011 at 03:01

1st Year Chemist here

Just been revising/learning quantum mechanics. I'ts finally sunk in. What a feeling!!!!!!!!!!11111111111111111111!!!eleven!!!!!11

Davies_M · 19 May 2011 at 03:31

First year History and exams start on Saturday (I know right?). Been one hell of a year, but I expect next year to be even greater (The modules look gash but the second semester in the USA for 7 months, 5 studying 2 free roam? Yes please!)

As much as I enjoy my degree, I'm perplexed as to what I will do after it if the whole armed forces thing falls through. I wish I had gunned for medicine or something a bit more focused, feeling too wishy washy at the moment.

Oh well, enjoy it while it lasts ey?

Razor-BladE · 26 May 2011 at 17:48

Well todays exam was a complete fail... I reckon I'll be resitting :/ Time to start revising for tomorrow mornings exam (hoorah...)

Tikkabhuna · 26 May 2011 at 17:56

Systems design exam tomorrow. Our lecturer is painfully bad and we're not very happy.

Placement will start in a month tomorrow though so that's always something to look forward to!

Theophany · 26 May 2011 at 18:07

Shayper said:
Only problems I've had at Uni are being skint, and doing incredibly stupid things while drunk and hungover. Like today, for example, I dyed my hair red. A couple of months back, I dived into a concrete floor, because in my drunken state at a foam party I couldn't see the floor, and because the area was surrounded by bouncy castle Walls I thought the floor would be bouncy too. Hence a and e that night, broken nose and very minor whiplash and concussion

...and we are the future.

Makes you kinda glad not to be old, right?

MrMoonX · 26 May 2011 at 18:11

starting uni in september as a 29 year old mature student with a family, going to be crazy but hopefully my social work degree will get me out of my crappy job in the civil service.

On a plus side im very surprised at the amount of grants and bursary im gonna get so win!

Razor-BladE · 27 May 2011 at 15:14

Right... so I had a maths exam today. Come out of the exam, and people start talking about question 8 and 9.

Wait....... What questions 8 and 9? The last question was question 7 no?

Apparently not, but it's not just me; quite a few other people had a lovely two blank pages where 8 and 9 supposedly should have been.

So I've just fired an email off to the lecturer. Let's see what his reply is.. :/

Alex74 · 27 May 2011 at 15:16

Razor-BladE said:
Right... so I had a maths exam today. Come out of the exam, and people start talking about question 8 and 9.

Wait....... What questions 8 and 9? The last question was question 7 no?

Apparently not, but it's not just me; quite a few other people had a lovely two blank pages where 8 and 9 supposedly should have been.

So I've just fired an email off to the lecturer. Let's see what his reply is.. :/

ouch!

Suppose that just means they can't mark the last two questions?

No such weird exam fails for me, just been riding the standard failtrain of Game/Utility/Decision Theory today.

Will be so happy when these exams are over, have to blast through as much work as possible over the next week or so to have any hope of a first overall this year -.-.

sigma · 27 May 2011 at 15:22

Razor-BladE said:
Right... so I had a maths exam today. Come out of the exam, and people start talking about question 8 and 9.

Wait....... What questions 8 and 9? The last question was question 7 no?

Apparently not, but it's not just me; quite a few other people had a lovely two blank pages where 8 and 9 supposedly should have been.

So I've just fired an email off to the lecturer. Let's see what his reply is.. :/

Guessing you didn't read the rubric then check the paper before you started?

Dunks · 27 May 2011 at 15:24

Razor-BladE said:
Right... so I had a maths exam today. Come out of the exam, and people start talking about question 8 and 9.

Wait....... What questions 8 and 9? The last question was question 7 no?

Apparently not, but it's not just me; quite a few other people had a lovely two blank pages where 8 and 9 supposedly should have been.

So I've just fired an email off to the lecturer. Let's see what his reply is.. :/

Did you not read the front cover? Ours always state the number of questions.

Razor-BladE · 27 May 2011 at 15:33

Alex74 said:
ouch! Suppose that just means they can't mark the last two questions?

No such weird exam fails for me, just been riding the standard failtrain of Game/Utility/Decision Theory today.

Will be so happy when these exams are over, have to blast through as much work as possible over the next week or so to have any hope of a first overall this year -.-.

The strange thing is that it wasn't worth a lot of marks. It was titled 'Extra Questions'.

sigma said:
Guessing you didn't read the rubric then check the paper before you started?

Dunks said:
Did you not read the front cover? Ours always state the number of questions.

I did. Admittedly, read it briefly, but to my memory it said 'Answer all question in Section A, Answer 2 questions in Section B'. Nothing about the number of questions, and definitely not about these 'extra questions'.

There were 3 main questions in section B, each worth 20 marks. So you pick two and answer them.

According to people who had question 8 and 9 which, as I've said above, were titled 'Extra Questions' were only worth 5 marks together. :confused:

Edit: Just got a reply back:

This is indeed puzzling since the exam paper only has 7 questions. You
need to do all of 1-4 and choose two from 5-7. Can imagine what questions
8 and 9 were. I will investigate further when we get the scripts.

Lol.

Aod · 27 May 2011 at 15:33

sigma said:
Guessing you didn't read the rubric then check the paper before you started?

Dunks said:
Did you not read the front cover? Ours always state the number of questions.

i'm sure he did, but over the two/three hours of an exam, are you really going to remember the number of questions stated on the front after two hours of furious writing? i certainly wouldn't.

It's also possible that there were two different exam papers with different numbers of questions to discourage cheating... this is unlikely however.

Razor-BladE · 27 May 2011 at 15:46

LOL!

My colleagues seem to like a joke and they certainly fooled me and a few others...

I feel like an idiot now, especially after sending an email to the lecturer..

SS-89 · 27 May 2011 at 15:50

Razor-BladE said:
LOL!

My colleagues seem to like a joke and they certainly fooled me and a few others...

I feel like an idiot now, especially after sending an email to the lecturer..

Hahaha Genius!

I have my final university exam on tuesday. I would celebrate no exams ever again...but that would be a lie. Starting ACA at my new job in September and then following that will be doing CTA

Another 4-5 years of studying woot

Lethal` · 27 May 2011 at 15:55

Currently done 4/8 exams in first year, roll on middle of June!

Razor-BladE · 27 May 2011 at 15:58

Best of luck for that!
Ah, well at least you'll be getting paid for it!

sigma · 27 May 2011 at 15:58

Aod said:
i'm sure he did, but over the two/three hours of an exam, are you really going to remember the number of questions stated on the front after two hours of furious writing? i certainly wouldn't.

It's also possible that there were two different exam papers with different numbers of questions to discourage cheating... this is unlikely however.

I always go into exams knowing how many sections there will be and how many questions I will have to answer in each section so when it comes to the exam a quick check with that I already know and the rubric then a check of the paper is sufficient.

Not that it helped the 2 exams that I had this week.

Wish you could get marks for answering the correct number of questions!