anyone sitting exams / studying just now?
 

we usually get one of these around this time and no one else seems to want to post it so please tell me i'm not the only one.

had an elections and voting in britain exam yesterday morning i passed.

got 20th century scottish society and irish history from 1700-1850 next week and i'm supposed to be studying for an international relations exam ive got tomorrow morning but i'm just messing about on msn and buying cd's on amazon :-S

anyone else stuck supposedly reading notes and whatever or is it really just me now?

I had one this morning, advanced computer graphics, and I think that I did much better than I expected. The paper was virtually identical to last years, which we were given to study from, though I just studied everything anyway. I think a lot more of it sunk in than I realised last semester, because when I was revising last night I remembered most of it and didn't need to spend too long going over it. Fortunately it was my only exam for now, and will probably only have one or two in May too, my course isn't heavy on exams.

I did, however, spend the weekend and into the start of this week tidying my room and re-arranging my furniture and such when I knew very well I should have been revising. Ah, procrastination, nothing like it :p

that's funny. me and a mate from my course were having a few beers after the exam yesterday and talking about how you can look nat notes that you wrote months ago whilst half asleep for the 1st time and information will start coming back to you that you never even realised went in.

example: in the tutorials and revision lecture for that class i sat there thinking, shit man i REALLY don't know any of this stuff, i've not been to most of the classes etc... but as soon as i'd come across a term or concept like valence issues i'd remember all sorts of information that i didn't even realise i'd taken in.

i think you take alot more in subconsciously than you can realise and it just takes a little work to get it out.

the biggest problem i have with exams is they're more a test of what you can remember for 2 hours than what you actually know. i can forget everything i picked up in that elections class or anything i remembered whilst studying y know...


on an other note. do any of you do this or is it just me? i like putting totally irrelevant stuff into exam answers that i can tie into the stuff you're answering and i've got into a competition with some mates about it.

i managed to spend two paragraphs talking about charlie being murdered in coronation street yesterday :-D

apart from being silly and fun i think it serves two purposes:

1st it will draw the markers attention back in. if he's sitting on his 40th paper talking about party political broadcasts then someone starts going on about corrie it's going to perk up his interest a bit more an dmaybe even make put him in a better and lighter mood for marking.

secondly, if you're prepared to try it in a paper it usually means the exam's going pretty well if you can chance it and not be too worried if you drop marks for it.

Same here, though I did show up for many of the more important lectures for this module, but I sat doodling a lot of the time, and only right now do I remember that I recorded half of the damn lectures on my phone, which could have come in handy for revising yesterday.

I remember last year I was thinking the same thing, but I find it easier to get away with in coursework. Last year I convinced my group for our 3D work to make an animation of a silly idea I had involving a badger, and we did it, and we got great marks for it because a fair chunk was for creativity as well as quality of the animation and such :D

i only went to 3 out of a possible 24 lectures for that class :-S

in retrospect getting a gir with her pwn flat at the start of the term and picking a class at 9 on friday mornings with nothing else on that day wasn't the best.

but then again ill be totally shocked if i fail and i got 61% for an essay i knew very little about. it just goes to show that just about any moron can bum their way through a degree these days

ive been sitting here since about 1 o clock and done absolutely no studying at all. ive realised there's not alot to read so i can fire through it all a bunch of times tonight.

now i'm reading about holidays where you climb to base camp on mt everest :-)

Nice to see you spend your time productivly Jim!!!!

Good luck with your exams :)

i'm too good to need luck sweetheart '-)

nice to see your so positive!!!!

Exactly a week ago I submitted three exams papers. And will have to submit another four in 9 weeks. Mostly AI and machine learning.

Good luck with your exams :)