UoM General Chat

[lzxnl]

There is nothing I can do; it's just a shame our group isn't getting the same treatment as all the others because our new lecturer appears to be misinformed. Sorry if my annoyance seems unjustified, I can see how that could be coming across. As always, my main focus is to try and do my best so that I don't need those buffer marks! EDDA has been a bit of a struggle for me this semester but hopefully hard work pays off.

The concept of buffer marks in an exam baffles me.

[Stick]

I believe the main reason they do it is because the exam is worth 80% so it accommodates for those who don't cope well with exams. To be honest, I have to agree with you. The past exams have some challenging parts but I think a capable student should be able to still manage at least 80% on them.

[Belgarion]

I believe the main reason they do it is because the exam is worth 80% so it accommodates for those who don't cope well with exams. To be honest, I have to agree with you. The past exams have some challenging parts but I think a capable student should be able to still manage at least 80% on them.

When we did EDDA sem 2 last year, our lecturer said he was going to do some kind of mathematical scaling thing instead of the buffer to make things fairer. He told us this a few weeks before our exam but we were all under the impression we would have the buffer so from memory we voted and were given the buffer. May be they have transitioned to the scaling instead?

[Stick]

Nah, we just got told we're getting our raw mark.

[kandinsky]

Procrastinating by looking breadth subjects again.

Does anyone know why Intensive Ancient Greek 1 is only available as breadth for BBiomed as a Level 1 subject (CLAS10022) and not 2 or 3 (CLAS20035 and CLAS30045)? The level 2/3 versions are only available for Music, Environments, or Commerce students.

I don't think it's available as level 2/3 for those other courses either.

I have a feeling this is because some Classics students do Intensive Ancient Greek 1 before going on to Ancient Greek 2. The intensive course is designed more for Classics students than for breadth students. Just doing Beginners Ancient Greek 1 won't get you anywhere near good enough to read texts (you do all the baby grammar in Ancient Greek 1), and I feel like it would be a waste to do it without continuing on to Ancient Greek 2 (where it gets really intense).

It would also be extremely unfair if some people were doing Ancient Greek 1 as level 3 and other people were doing Ancient Greek 5 as level 3. It's the difference between having to almost fluently read the Odyssey in Greek or translate Aristotle or some similar author, and reading baby sentences.

[CossieG]

Why the hell couldn't they give us the 2013 ESD2 exam

[scribble]

Why the hell couldn't they give us the 2013 ESD2 exam

Reading this I thought it was already Monday and I missed my stoch exam. @ A @

[CossieG]

Reading this I thought it was already Monday and I missed my stoch exam. @ A @

Oh god lmao. I was referring to the fact they they didn't put the paper up on the LMS.

[charmanderp]

People who have done personality psych/other psych subjects, do you know if we have to be able to connect studies to experimenter's names i.e. will there be questions like 'Charmanderp (2014) found that:' with four completely different studies described?

[aaackk]

are the seats in the exam halls arranged by student ID? as in say my student ID was 60001, will student 60002 who is also doing the same subject be seated directly behind me?

[mahler004]

Pretty sure the answer is no. By memory the seats are random (though still grouped by subject), and I don't think the people with 'nearby' student IDs will necessarily be doing the same subject as you, or even the same degree?

Completely anecdotal, but in first year I always ended up sitting in front a friend of mine for our bio/chem exams in both semesters, so I do think there is some trend.

I think it's grouped by subject, then student ID.

[ChickenCh0wM1en]

Completely anecdotal, but in first year I always ended up sitting in front a friend of mine for our bio/chem exams in both semesters, so I do think there is some trend.

I think it's grouped by subject, then student ID.

Yup I agree.

Made a friend in cell bio last sem. We were right next to each other for the cell bio exam.
He also did phys and pharm with me this sem - same thing as well

[Shenz0r]

It's definitely subject then ID, I've been sitting in front/behind the same girl for all my Biomed cores

[simpak]

Yeah when my subject would be the 'first subject' to be assigned I would always find myself uncomfortably close to the bathrooms because my ID begins with 3 and most people in my cohort had an ID beginning with 5.

[scribble]

=______= erc just got evacuated for a fire drill.