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> The Exams Thread...gcse/as/a2/degrees/uni Exams/end Of Year Exams...et, Its that time of year :(....good luck every one
joolsters
post May 10 2008, 09:16 PM
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Haha, I wish it would be party time. I recently got the nomination for the EPSRC research studentship so I am supposedly doing some extra learning over the summer. However my potential supervisor has different ideas, and hopes we will do enough work to have an article published...the prospect of having published something before I've even thought about writing a thesis (which I will do eventually) is pretty cool, but I am guessing there needs to be substantial effort put into it...
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post May 10 2008, 09:44 PM
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QUOTE(joolsters @ May 10 2008, 10:16 PM) *

Haha, I wish it would be party time. I recently got the nomination for the EPSRC research studentship so I am supposedly doing some extra learning over the summer. However my potential supervisor has different ideas, and hopes we will do enough work to have an article published...the prospect of having published something before I've even thought about writing a thesis (which I will do eventually) is pretty cool, but I am guessing there needs to be substantial effort put into it...


Well done on the studentship (IMG:style_emoticons/default/hurrah.gif) I won one of the Carnegie undergraduate scholarships and had to spend the entire summer in the Uni doing research as well (it was actually on Dirac monopoles and fibre bundles hence my love of differential geometry) but it was really worthwhile (money was terrible but I was working full time in the evenings anyway).

I never did get anything published as a result except in the Carnegie library or something so I'm in awe. Just think - you will get to have a proper publications section on your CV - that is soooo impressieve irrespective if you stay in academia or go into industry.

I'm sure there will be time for some partying though (IMG:style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif)

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post May 10 2008, 11:22 PM
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Good luck to everyone doing the dreaded exams. Best advice I can give is to do plenty of revision beforehand, get lots of sleep the night before each actual exam, and try to stay relaxed during the exam - panicking never helps!

Hope to hear lots of wonderful results in a few weeks time! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)
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post May 11 2008, 09:10 AM
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I have my Higher English on Thursday.
What texts are you writing about? This will make me sound odd, but I really enjoyed (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blink.gif) the Higher English exam last year, so I hope yours goes well for you! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) Do you think you'll take English in 6th year?
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post May 11 2008, 10:15 AM
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Nice to now that I'm not the only one spending a sunny day looking at words like Dirac, debye, quantum, 3d wave functions and probability distributions. My supervisor only gave it to me on Wednesday and he goes away for a month from next week.... so I'm frantically trying to get it finished before then. At least there isn't an exam in it afterwards, but I am having to translate it as I go. And it's the last chapter !!! Yay !!!
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post May 11 2008, 12:28 PM
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QUOTE(Miss Ross @ May 11 2008, 10:10 AM) *

QUOTE(melody_maker @ May 10 2008, 09:35 PM) *
I have my Higher English on Thursday.
What texts are you writing about? This will make me sound odd, but I really enjoyed (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blink.gif) the Higher English exam last year, so I hope yours goes well for you! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) Do you think you'll take English in 6th year?

We've studied Hamlet and Wuthering Heights and 4 poems; "Assisi" and "Visiting Hour" by Norman MacCaig and "Afternoons" and "Ambulances" by Philip Larkin.
Hopefully there will be a nice question on Hamlet and a nice one that I could do for Assisi!
Which did you study?
Nope, not planning on taking it for 6th year! I'm taking two foreign languages to Advanced Higher, though! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)
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post May 11 2008, 12:50 PM
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We did Othello, Iain Banks' 'The Crow Road' and 'The Death of Marilyn Monroe' by Edwin Morgan. About a week before the exam I realised I couldn't remember Othello in enough detail so didn't revise it at all (IMG:style_emoticons/default/ph34r.gif) and thankfully the questions on prose and poetry were great! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

Is it French and Spanish you're going to be doing?
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post May 11 2008, 02:01 PM
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My first exam's on Wednesday week - M2 (Edexcel).....!
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post May 11 2008, 03:03 PM
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My first exam's on Wednesday week - M2 (Edexcel).....!


I'm doing that exam... My first one is German (OCR) on Friday though...
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post May 11 2008, 03:31 PM
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Nice to now that I'm not the only one spending a sunny day looking at words like Dirac, debye, quantum, 3d wave functions and probability distributions. My supervisor only gave it to me on Wednesday and he goes away for a month from next week.... so I'm frantically trying to get it finished before then. At least there isn't an exam in it afterwards, but I am having to translate it as I go. And it's the last chapter !!! Yay !!!


Dirac is currently at the bottom of my pile of paper, and I intend to keep him there for a bit longer (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

Christoffel symbols...ARGHHHH!!!!!!!!!!! *runs away*
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post May 11 2008, 06:01 PM
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QUOTE(Miss Ross @ May 11 2008, 01:50 PM) *

Is it French and Spanish you're going to be doing?

Nope, French and German (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)
What subjects are you doing this year?
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post May 11 2008, 06:27 PM
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Nope, French and German (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)
What subjects are you doing this year?
Ah, right! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) I'm sitting Advanced Music and English and Higher French and Latin. What else are you taking?
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This year I'm doing Maths, English, Music, French and German, all Higher.
Next year I'm doing Advanced Music, French and German!
What are your plans for after you leave?
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post May 11 2008, 07:46 PM
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Should I be worried that I have my A levels this year and don't actually know when any of my exams are.

I should really find up my exam timetable!
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I have a general studies AS exam tomorrow, Spanish oral on Tuesday and another general studies on thursday! Then next week i have 3 hours of Spanish exams on Monday, 3 hours of French exams on Tuesday and then 2h45 of music on Thursday!! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/argh.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blink.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/unsure.gif)
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