That sick exam feeling

elisebutt65

I'm a mature student with kids and I don't get any leeway!!!! Crikey - where are you going???

I just wrote a 3000 word essay on the Welfare State in between Xmas and the NY and also polished off a chapter of my dissertation, just 3 more chapters and the conclusion to go now - Yippeee!!!:j :j :j

My exam for Managing Tourism Activity isn't till 23/1 and we haven't had our revision lecture yet - where they tell us what to revise - It's going to be things like Environmental Assessments and Tourism Accounts though from looking at the past papers online.

Our exam is scheduled for 5pm!!!!! Gaaak - Have had to arrange emergency childcare as we've never had them so late. Tutor did say Exams peeps could arrange for me to sit on my own, at a better time, but I like the camaraderie of all of waiting nervously outside, smoking ourselves to death and the last minute revisers coming up and gabbling away - " Does this mean....??? Who shall I quote about ....??"

Then hitting the cafe afterwards and having a post-mortem on the questions LOL - possibly the best bit as the adrenalin leaves you with the shakes :rotfl:

studentphil

I do just sometimes wonder about uni as people who write their essays on the deadline days seem to get 1st's. Some people are naturally lucky I suppose.

studentphil

apoorstudent wrote:

So true. Are you at/did you go to uni?

Oh god, I'm here again... Damn this addictive site!

I am still there.

lethal_2

apoorstudent wrote:

Uni is fifty times more difficult. Trust me, I got straight As in my A levels... Uni is a huge step up!

I thought university meant to be easier than a-levels, wel thats what I have ben told


oh geeeeeeeeeeez ...... what have I landed my self in for

lisa_75

lethal wrote:

I thought university meant to be easier than a-levels, wel thats what I have ben told


oh geeeeeeeeeeez ...... what have I landed my self in for

I found uni far more difficult than a levels. My friend did an HND and also said a degree is a huge step up from that.

It is not THAT bad though, or I would have quit in the first year!

lisa_75

studentphil wrote:

I do just sometimes wonder about uni as people who write their essays on the deadline days seem to get 1st's. Some people are naturally lucky I suppose.

That is where I am going wrong then! I have an 5000 word essay due in on the 12th and finished it today. There is no way I will get a 1st for it, even though I have been working on it for weeks!

studentphil

lisa_75 wrote:

That is where I am going wrong then! I have an 5000 word essay due in on the 12th and finished it today. There is no way I will get a 1st for it, even though I have been working on it for weeks!

I have never got this first thing. I have worked like hell and have struggled to get a good 2.2. Then other times I worked average and got a 1st.

There is no formula to a 1st. I conclued there is no formula to it and it all depends on the marker.

Jazzyjeff_2

apoorstudent wrote:

Uni is fifty times more difficult. Trust me, I got straight As in my A levels... Uni is a huge step up!

I disagree with this at it depends so much on what uni you go to and what you study. I went to a russell group uni and didn't really find it all that hard, partly because it was in Accountancy which is what I'm best at (I kind of got better from gcse's to a levels then to degree, as I specialised in what I'm best at). However my partner did Accountancy at Exeter uni and jees some of the stuff she had to do was soooo hard, 100 times harder than what I had to do, yet ultimately the same degree.....

melancholly

studentphil wrote:

I conclued there is no formula to it and it all depends on the marker.

everything should always be moderated by a second marker to make sure that this doesn't happen.... there is no formula - and the people who write it at the last minute and do well are more likely to be naturally talented than just lucky (no less irritating, but if uni marks were all pot luck then you'd be getting as many 40% scores as 70%!)

but anyway - go do some revision!! the best way to do well is to be in a position when you enter the exam room of knowing just enough stuff so that you don't resort to blind panic. and have a quick look through the whole exam first, so that nothing is a total surprise in the last 15 mins. oh - and if you have essays, it can be helpful to do an essay plan for all of them to begin with, so that when you get to the last one with hardly any time left you can get straight into writing it and you should still have some structure to your answer rather than a rushed hit and miss essay. and at the end of as many paragraphs as possible make some clear comment demonstrating how the points you have made directly address the question.

good luck everyone - no exams for me any more, just that small issue of a thesis!

cupid_s

lethal wrote:

I thought university meant to be easier than a-levels, wel thats what I have ben told


oh geeeeeeeeeeez ...... what have I landed my self in for

I found uni way way easier than A-level. I think it does all depend on the course you want to do and the A-levels you did