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Posted by wil5on on Fri Nov 4th at 7:26am 2005

Exams are starting for me soon. My first is tomorrow, my last is on the 14th. I have 4 in total, EP&D ("enginnering planning and design", a course that covers everything from economics to psychology but in very little depth), Maths (algebra and calculus), Computer Science (Java), and Physics (rotational motion, waves and optics, special relativity, quantum mechanics). I'm not too worried, I've kept up with each course during the year and I've studied enough that I probably wont fail... hopefully.

Anyone else have exams coming? Do they freak you out, or can you take them in your stride?




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Posted by Andrei on Fri Nov 4th at 9:27am 2005

Well, the dumbest thing one could do before an exam is to freak-out.I for one was so calm before a (fairly) important exam that my mental health went under question. <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_smile.gif">

Anyway, good luck man.




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Posted by Addicted to Morphine on Fri Nov 4th at 3:13pm 2005

I tend not to stress... although I am worried about my computer science midterm. I'm terrible at compsci...

All my other exams will be manageable, since they're all English lit exams and one Film Theory exam.




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Posted by ReNo on Fri Nov 4th at 3:34pm 2005

I do often have my worries, but I don't get stressed out. There was once an exception to that rule however. I had a maths exam that I felt genuinely physically sick in once I sat down at my table, which was quite awful as for the first 15 minutes I actually had to concentrate on not spewing, as opposed to actually answering questions. After that I started feeling ok and got on and did the work, and oddly enough it was one of the easiest maths exams I've had. Very strange scenario that I don't wish to repeat!

This year I've only three exams that I know of, though one, for better or worse, is a compound exam made up of multiple subjects. At the end of this semester I'll have a networking exam, and next semester I'll have an ethics in game development exam and the compound exam that includes two maths disciplines, speech recognition, and encryption. Fortunately it's a "pick 5 of 8 questions" type exam, which means I can hopefully limit the amount of maths I need to answer <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_lol.gif">




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Posted by satchmo on Fri Nov 4th at 4:19pm 2005

Good luck man.

Some of my friends just took the certification exam for pediatricians last week. I took it three years ago.

It's a monster of a test. There are over 700 multiple choice questions, stretched over two days. I was quite nervous before the test, because about a third of the doctors do not pass the test each year.

I am typically a very good test-taker, but I was a bit stressed nevertheless. I am just so glad that it's behind me.

I loved being a student, but I don't miss the exams.



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Posted by Forceflow on Fri Nov 4th at 7:57pm 2005

Good luck man.

I had 2 of my test exams too. (They look like real ones, but they're not quoted.)
I had Linear Algebra (Very intersting stuff) and Mechanics (God, I hate that).

Lin. Algebra went well, although I made a very stupid calculation mistake (10 divided by 2 isn't 10). I was too nervous to notice I had written down complete nonsense in that line, so I continued to work with faulty eigenvalues and the whole exercise went bottoms up.



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Posted by wil5on on Fri Nov 4th at 11:21pm 2005

4 hours to go... I'd be studying now, but I've gone over it all and the materials so boring that if I did it again I'd completely lose interest in the subject and make a mess of the exam.

Maths is after this, on Monday... the good thing about eigenvalues is if you make a mistake, it gets obvious fairly quickly.




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Posted by wil5on on Sun Nov 6th at 11:34pm 2005

(apologies for doublepost necromancy)

The last exam went OK I think. Multiple choice, but a couple of questions were on obscure topics I didnt study (and losing marks for a wrong answer makes it not worth the risk).

4 hours until the maths exam. I've gone over all the bits of the course I had trouble with just now, so I should be ok.




&quot;If you talk at all during this lesson, you have detention. Do you understand?&quot;
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Posted by WarloK on Sun Nov 6th at 11:37pm 2005

I have my 3rd year prelims starting in February i think.





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Posted by SpoolE on Tue Nov 8th at 11:18am 2005

I began exams 3 days ago <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/sad.gif">



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Posted by wil5on on Tue Nov 8th at 11:36am 2005

Maths went OK, I screwed up a question on conic sections but I was expecting that <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/sad.gif">

Computer Science next. AI, Recursion, Computer system concepts (CPU, ALU, bus crap) and how Java does GUIs. Not too bad, except for the Java eccentricities you have to memorise.




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Posted by Madedog on Tue Nov 8th at 12:50pm 2005

God damn, I'd gladly take exams in Level Design <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif">



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Posted by Y2kBen_2000 on Tue Nov 8th at 2:58pm 2005

You think that's bad!!

I have a huge US History research and explain project due in just a couple of hours. Wouldn't be big deal...if my group woud've shown up at the meeting place yesturday.

Right now I don't now what to say or do, or even if the project is finished.

Ohh, I just hope it's finished and I get away with it, I don't want that money I paid to go to waste.



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Posted by wil5on on Wed Nov 9th at 5:44am 2005

I had that same trouble a few weeks ago, had a big project due and half the group didnt show up. Luckily it turned out one of them had finished off the editing and handed it in. Hope yours turns out well too.

Studied physics today. Springs are impossible to make interesting. Optics and relativity are better. That exam is on monday.




&quot;If you talk at all during this lesson, you have detention. Do you understand?&quot;
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Posted by Captain P on Wed Nov 9th at 12:16pm 2005

Good luck with your exams, wil5on. Hope you have some good results. <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_smile.gif">

When I had exams for my previous school, I finished a HL map in that week. I expected the exam period to be much heavier but that was a great relief. Heh, I still laugh when I think back on that time...

Right now I've got some tests this week so it's learning time too here, I guess...



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Posted by wil5on on Fri Nov 11th at 6:44am 2005

Thanks CP.

Just had my Computer Science exam. A couple of questions threw me a bit, mainly because I completely ignored finite state transducers while studying <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/sad.gif"> Ah well, itll still probably be my best one.

Physics next, and those god-awful springs and waves. Then I'm done for the year <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif">




&quot;If you talk at all during this lesson, you have detention. Do you understand?&quot;
- My yr11 Economics teacher




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