Uni Exams

and on this intellectual note, I would just like to add, AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH EXAMS

Completed 2 exams of 4....not been too bad for the (lack of) work that I've done tbf....though the annoying thing is I'm on that border between 2:2 and 2:1 and if I actually work hard enough I'll scrape through, but whether I can be arsed to work hard enough is another matter

Also, my dissertation is worth 33% of this year and I don't find out the grade until after exams, which is pissing annoying since it makes a MASSIVE difference!!!

Not really - University lecturers are there more for the research than the actual teaching, ok yeah if they are really crap then you can complain, but usually nothing will be done until the year after and even then not much might happen! Universities care about lecturers doing research and writing papers --> brings money and reputation to the university. It's unfortunate, but true!

One of our REALLY CRAP lecturers recently got taken off the teaching staff and instead is just a research staff in the department - he's incredibly intelligent and way ahead in his field, but he's useless at lecturing, sigh.

Students complain about fucking anything!

The whole point of going is to sit exams. Get over it.

i didn't really mind my exams at uni, meant you had no lectures for a while

Well we reported it to our student rep i doubt anything will happen though

Do you go to Sunderland?

I'm a student rep

Northumbria Uni

The only decent thing our rep did was got out time table turned around no way was I coming in for an hours lecture at 4pm on a Friday

Did you go to Walbottle High School? Just you mentioned you live around that area

I didn't but few of my friends did, I live in walbottle though yeah.

Well good to know things don't just go wrong at my uni, all as bad as eachother it seems!

a week and a day to go though, and today is last 'proper' exam, next week is a TCT and is only worth 30% of a 10 credit module...so should be a breeze.

Todays exam though....urgh.

Nice are to live in

Yep things go wrong in my Uni although i do have the most laid back tutor who you see for extensions etc

Youll be fine for your exam im sure of it

the way students are spoon fed nowadays it takes the piss...

let's hope so

care to elaborate?

the amount of handouts, help, instruction - it's not about self directed learning anymore.

i heard 1 student complaining that a lecturer hadn't had the lecture notes ready and printed out for the START of the lecture for her to collect as she had to go somewhere. is attending lectures too difficult? is writing your own notes too difficult too?

*sigh* it were different in my day... we drove cars like the flintones...

Course there is

Officially...Each tutor has a rating out of 5 (1 the best) and if you are marked above 3 on more than 2 or 3 assements (usually class observatios by a Course Manager/Head of subject) then its bye bye. The only problem arises is if your college/uni is oversubscribed and then they have to keep them on simply because there is noone to teach the pupils......


I had to do a resit last year and they decided to plonk us in a room which had major drilling work going on above it. Noone could concentrate so we all left early without answering anything, complained to the head and all got given 60%

Really thats excellent

Well il wait and see what marks i get for my coursework then take it from there

His teaching was inadequate im not the only one to say that

See where your coming from and i agree there is far to much help for students

At least parts of my course are geared towards you doing your own work

J i take it your talking about Chris Reeves are you?

Chris Reeves for the coursework but Martin Robinson is the lecturer who talks absolute crap which has nothing to do with building regs

Cant beat Tory Boy, I just stopped turning up after two lectures when I figured out what a hopeless cunt he is. Blackboard all the way!

The amateur (and I mean amateur) comedian? Im sure he practices his routines in the mirror before he comes in on a morning. I also would bet my bottom dollar that he got bullied at school.