University Exam

[Jeros]

Allowed to bring: Lecture notes

Not allowed to bring: Textbook

Exam is "open book"

Lecture notes are just a simplyfied, easy to use version of the textbook

*slams head against wall*

 

[Aoami]

i've got one of them next week, good to see our £3,000 a year is well spent

 

[old.Tohtori]

Lecture notes also measure your attendance and they will msot likely keep an eye on personal touch in answers, aka copy from textbook is a no.

Atleast if there's some smart in ze teach brain.

 

[mooSe_]

I wish my exams were that lulzy

 

[Gibbo]

You can take lecture notes into an exam?

Why don't they just give you the questions in advance, or better still have lecturers on hand to answers any queries you might have.

Wasn't like that in my day.

 

[mooSe_]

You can take lecture notes into an exam?

Why don't they just give you the questions in advance, or better still have lecturers on hand to answers any queries you might have.

Wasn't like that in my day.

One of my a level exams was the most stupid:
- You get given the exam questions at the start of the year
- The exam is at the end of the year
- You only have to answer one question, but it is supposed to be a 4,000+ word essay
- You can take up to 1,000 words of notes into the exam with you
- The exam lasts 4 and a half hours split over 4 days (1 hour a day for 3 days then 1 hour 30 on the last day)

So basically I wrote an essay during the year, condensed into 1000 words as best as i could, re-wrote it in the exam, and re-read my essay at home every day before i went in for another hour to make sure I got it right.

(I got an A)

 

[Chilly]

Being allowed to take notes in can often be a hindrance. They always give you too many questions for the time if you were to look up every answer. You wont ace it without actual, real study. You can rely on yoru notes for specific figures/dates/reference but dont try to learn the subject in the exam hall - you will fail.

 

[old.Tohtori]

What they should do is put in a million questions and let people answer as much as they can, and answer questions they can in that time.

Then judge based on answers given, topic variety of answers etc.

Anyone answering ALL questions with perfect score would be deemed superhuman and to report to the "school of extraordinary people".

School of extraordinary people being a slaughterhouse with the intent of keeping the "national IQ standard" down.

Ofcourse the above sample would mean that teachers would have to be smart and/or interested enough in doing some intellectual work/grading, which kind of pisses all over the theory of "those who can, do. Those who can't, teach".

 

[Bugz]

Lucky sod.

Our maths exams we get nothing.

No calculator. No formulas. Nada. Which means not only do you have to learn the material, you have to learn the formulas and then make sure you're tip top in rules of surds, fractions, algebraic manipulation, graph sketching etc.

 

[old.Tohtori]

I always thought that maths exams(higher level) without a calculator are a bit, while ofcourse having a greater teaching value, unrealistic.

It's not like some math job wouldn't have a calculator handy

 

[Bugz]

I agree with you 100% Toht.

But universities now-a-days seem divided in teaching the 'old fashioned way' and teaching to prepare for real life. My uni is stuck somewhere in the middle!

 

[kiliarien]

One of my a level exams was the most stupid:
- You get given the exam questions at the start of the year
- The exam is at the end of the year
- You only have to answer one question, but it is supposed to be a 4,000+ word essay
- You can take up to 1,000 words of notes into the exam with you
- The exam lasts 4 and a half hours split over 4 days (1 hour a day for 3 days then 1 hour 30 on the last day)

So basically I wrote an essay during the year, condensed into 1000 words as best as i could, re-wrote it in the exam, and re-read my essay at home every day before i went in for another hour to make sure I got it right.

(I got an A)

Sounds like a sociology A Level. A course for people who should practice saying 'would you like fries with that?'

 

[mooSe_]

Sounds like a sociology A Level. A course for people who should practice saying 'would you like fries with that?'

nah it was philosophy, but yeah sociology is bullshit.

 

[tris-]

what chilly said. taking 10 pages of notes in to an exam wont do anything. you need it in your head. in most of my exams i could take in statute books, but these bastards run 5-600 pages in length. i would of certainly failed unless i knew all i needed to about the statute beforehand. the book is there just for the specific details.