Goodluck exam-takers!

[Bugz]

Wow - this time of the year again! I feel like offering my luck to all those taking exams in May & June.

What exists for me is 2.5 months of partying, bbq's and earning cash after. I hope it is the same for you!

Goodluck!

 

[Aoami]

oh shit yeah should probably start revising

 

[Uara]

Yeah good luck all those having exams in the near future. I remember last year going into my finals around this time! Nervous times!

 

[Lamp]

Good luck suckers! Exams, pff ! Glad I don't have to do any more of those! Ah the joys of having a job.

 

[Overdriven]

Finished mine about 8-9 days ago.

Algorithms and Data Structures in C
System Modelling

Next year will be a fuck load worse, all my modules have exams.

 

[kiliarien]

Good luck all!

And don't fail, we all know what happens then....

 

[kirennia]

Good luck all

3 exams here in Graphics, Advanced windows programming and software management then I'll be free...


...to go back to my 12 hour nights for 2 months while building a portfolio, bleh.

 

[Overdriven]

3 exams here in Graphics, Advanced windows programming and software management

Ouch man, I'm doing the software managment module next year Here it maps directly with our 3rd year project, so pretty much 60% of my year is taking it.

 

[kirennia]

Ouch man, I'm doing the software managment module next year Here it maps directly with our 3rd year project, so pretty much 60% of my year is taking it.

Same here mate... it's another of those modules where you can deem 60% or so of it as common sense. But then comes the problem of actually highlighting issues of common sense in your work :/

Ours is a seen exam paper whereby we've got to do things like remember references ... sucks.

 

[Mey]

Exams in Penology, Policing in a Democratic Society, Sentencing Issues and Research Methods. Should walk it, but probably should start some revision tomorrow.

 

[Everz]

I have 3 exams to take (ty for passing Business at A grade early), then its getting drunk, smashed, laid all summer long.. pretty much the same as i do no.. only more..

 

[Ezteq]

Rofl Bugz you are always the one to make the good luck for exam takers threads!

I just began my revision training today, made the timetable and after lunch am going to start reading up on the study skills guides etc, doesn't seem like a flipping year ago since i was getting ready just to start at uni lol.

Any-hoo good luck to all else who are prepping for their big day

 

[Bugz]

My revision is going well thus far.

Got 7 exams of importance: 2 are completely sorted, 3 are on the way to being sorted, 1 I haven't even started yet and the last is fuckin hard (further pure 2) so I'm currently working my arse off to get the grade I need in it.

 

[Everz]

I havent started revising yet, Keep meaning to then forgetting :/

 

[tris-]

I have clocked up 11 hours worth of exams the last week and I have a max of 2 hours left on Thursday

 

[ileks]

Doing the STEP maths exams here They're without doubt the most brutal exams i've ever seen.

 

[Lucius]

Doing the STEP maths exams here They're without doubt the most brutal exams i've ever seen.

A lot of people find them difficult so don't worry I am sure you will do fine.

Soon enough you'll look back at them and realise how easy they were, trust me.

 

[Zenith]

Since I have Im going for uni next fall and England seems to have a completly different studysetup than Sweden does, how does the whole exam work?

 

[Bugz]

Doing the STEP maths exams here They're without doubt the most brutal exams i've ever seen.

Fuck that.

I can just about do FP2. Core maths is definitely not my strong point (he says, as he applies to a course where half of the teaching is maths :/)

 

[tris-]

Hard to say how your Uni exams will go. They range from multiple choice, to 'seen' exam papers to open book exams.

You will either do them altogether in a short period at the end of a uni year, or they will be split with a group after christmas and a group at the end of the uni year.

PErsonally, mine are all at the end of the year. The final term is two weeks long and is for exams only in my particular school. Some of them allow me to take in a book of Statutes and the rest do not. As you go through the years,, the questions will be less about describing something to more about critically analysing something.

Edit: Hm sorry maybe youre not talking about them once on your course, from the looks of that last post.

 

[Everz]

Failed maths first time around so dropped it, super hard stuff that were. I'd much rather do exams in Jan rather then June, i can't concentrate that well in the summer, to hot, wanting to be outside rather then inside and i just end up procrastinating more and not doing the revising needed. No suprise that every Jan exam i've taken has been A-B, whilst my summer time varies from A-U.. lol.

 

[Ezteq]

watch out for falling ducting guys!!

tbh though you'll be OK so long as it doesn't contain a wise cracking new york cop (whose 3 days away from being suspended) wearing a vest and no shoes, because if he falls on you well youre just shit out of luck tbh.

 

[tris-]

Thought the following list might come in handy for people. It relates to Bloons Taxonomy which is used to design exam questions. If you ever answered a question and wondered why you did badly, you might not have actually answered the question!

The meaning of words in examination questions.


Advise / Recommend – Present information, opinions or recommendations to enable someone to take action.

Amplify – Expand or enlarge upon the meaning of (a statement or question)

Analyse – Determine and explain the constituent parts of.

Appraise / Assess/ Evaluate – Judge the importance or value of.

Clarify – Explain more clearly the meaning of

Compare – Explain similarities & differences between

Contrast – Show the differences between

Criticise – Present the faults in a theory or policy or opinion

Demonstrate – Show by reasoning the truth of

Describe – Present the details & characteristics of

Discuss – Explain the opposing arguments

Distinguish – Specify the differences between

Explain / Interpret – Set out in detail the meaning of

Illustrate – Use an example to explain something

Justify – State adequate grounds for

List – Itemise

Prove – Show by testing the accuracy of

Reconcile – make compatible apparently conflicting statements

Relate – Show connections between

State – Express

Summarise – State briefly the essential points

 

[Bugz]

Another update because I'm a sad loser.

I got me a set of blank revision cards! I'm aiming to consolidate every maths unit into 1 or 2 little cards!

That means I'll only have about 35-40 little cards to learn! Yay!

 

[Everz]

Hmm, Spies exam wednesday, looking forward to it tbh, skim through the book and notes tommorow and then its a 2 week break before last 3.

 

[megadave]

fuck you

no need to rub it in my face that i have exams





wtb someone in kent with good knowledge of computing, will pay well to sit exam for me

 

[Morphius]

Lol Spies, I'm glad I didn't have to do anything on that, what a joke that book was "A tale of second world war espionage" there wasn't even a spy, just a damn deserter cooped up in a barn. I don't count the kids dad, he was never mentionned til the end.

I got my last exam tomorrow then it's gap year time, working making money before I go a round the world shindig! (I do the IB so my exams finish about a month before the A-level exams finish)

Good luck to ye A-Level takers, I'll be thinking of you when I'm kicking back in my hammock

 

[Bugz]

I've concluded that I've come to the very edge of my understanding of pure maths.

The amount of effort I am ploughing into this maths and for such little return. Thank God I don't need to worry about my other 2 subjects!

 

[Urgluf]

I still have 9 exams. I start next weeks. I'm so looking forward to that.

 

[Bugz]

First exam tomorrow - a resit.

Going for full marks as its an easy paper!

Goodluck to the rest of you starting/still doing them!