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davo99 said:
Had my first exam today. Do any of your uni's employ really old people to supervise the exam? Anyway it was about halfway through and I've bullshitted my way through half of it, and some old guy falls down about 10 steps everybody starts laughing was good lol's he was alright in the end. An eventful first exam.
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I'm certain that's a requirement to be employed. Pretty good though because they don't bother checking if calculators are clear or if you're using the right ones.
 
Doing 7 subjects here (third year dentistry). 4 down (oral surgery, oral medicine, operative dentistry, perio), 3 to go (epidemiology, orthodontics, prosthodontics). Some of you guys are lucky, we have to pass all our exams no matter how we do during the semester, hate the bloody things :mad:
 
mad_monkey_j said:
I'm certain that's a requirement to be employed. Pretty good though because they don't bother checking if calculators are clear or if you're using the right ones.
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they're mostly retired teachers
 

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Schoenmakers2Puopolo said:
Doing 7 subjects here (third year dentistry). 4 down (oral surgery, oral medicine, operative dentistry, perio), 3 to go (epidemiology, orthodontics, prosthodontics). Some of you guys are lucky, we have to pass all our exams no matter how we do during the semester, hate the bloody things :mad:
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I can only pronounce about 3 subjects you're doing haha.
 
I generally prefer exams. I find more work and procrastination goes into completing an essay (even if I only start it 2-3 days beforehand). Exams I can ace with only 5-7 hours pre-exam study, depending on subject and workload of course. I also don't go in expecting to ace exams like with assignments, so I feel less pressure, and you get that post-exam euphoria as well. But sure, occasionally I have a unit where I need to pass the exam to pass the unit, so a little more stress in those situations. I also dislike getting below a distinction, so when you need to ace the exam to achieve that, not a great feeling.

I'm doing 2 exams in august, 4 weeks after a major operation. That will be very testing, and probably my first public outing post-surgery as well. Hope I'm not low on energy. Never had a day gap between exams before, they have either been same day or consecutive days (but afternoon and following morning).
 
mad_monkey_j said:
I'm certain that's a requirement to be employed. Pretty good though because they don't bother checking if calculators are clear or if you're using the right ones.
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I love these random old people who supervise us. I'm sure I could bring in all my textbooks and lay them out in front of me during the exam and they wouldn't notice.
 
Just realised my exam tonight is in the lecture theatre. I love those, they feel more cosy and comfortable than the ones where everyones spread out across the basketball courts.
 
Poseidon said:
Just realised my exam tonight is in the lecture theatre. I love those, they feel more cosy and comfortable than the ones where everyones spread out across the basketball courts.
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Cosy but I find the desks insanely small. Also dislike the fact that many lecture theatre desk creators discriminate against us left handers.

All my exams (apart from a summer semester one) are held at Caulfield racecourse now so not even at uni.
 
finished my final exam at 3 this afternoon. Not without drama.

So monday last week I had my uni bag stolen with text books, my good over ear headphones and my wallet in it. Keep that in mind, it's important.

So, as everyone does, I get around to revision like 3 days before the exam. And the lecturer has given us 12 questions, 2 of which were to be the 2 mini essay topics for the exam (worth 25% of the unit mark each). so i work through those 12 questions, writing practise essays for every one until I get to number 9, then I look at the last 4 questions and they all relate to the book that I no longer had . So i go to the ebook that I had but It's an old edition, and it doesn't have the chapters the newer edition has. At this stage it's monday night, so I have a look in the Deakin library and they've got none in, and I go to the bookshop, and they've also got none in.
At this stage I should mention that it's an online unit run by a bloke in Geelong, so I can't borrow from the tutor, or any other students because I don't know anyone. Look at the Swinny library, nothing, monash, nothing, vic uni? ding ding ding!

So, what I ended up doing was waking up at 6.30 this morning, catching 2 trains to Vic Uni in Footscray to make sure I got to their library before it opened at 8am so I could get to the book before anyone else borrowed it. Luckily I did, so I sat there for a while reading and taking notes (turns out I really needed them) and then I looked up and it was 11 o'clock and I thought 'shit, I need to go now, but I couldn't borrow the book because I don't have a student ID because I had my wallet and uni bag stolen last week.

So i did what any discerning student would do in that situation, I snuck the book into the bathroom and used the little box cutter I keep on my keyring (I pack shelves at woolies) to slice off the Vic Uni stickers and barcode) and then I stuffed it into my jacket and walked out with it. Read it on the train back to Deakin and after all that I reckon I did really well on the exam.

This is not uncommon, my ability to pull it out of the fire is unparallelled.

Story edit: The original text book was stolen along with my bag. Now it makes slightly more sense
 
Could've just you know... taken some pictures.
 

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DrVanNostrand said:
You're going to take it back, right? An anonymous bag drop into the overnight returns chute wearing a trench coat would be fitting.
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depending on what units I pick next trimester (i'm changing majors so I still haven't picked my units) If it's useful I might just keep it, if not I'll probably just mail it back with no return address.

That or send it to them page by page with 'lets play a game' written in blood on the front cover.
 
davo99 said:
Man accounting is so bad, Im the same only need 10/50 but have to pass to the exam F***** so have law exam at 8:30pm for 3hours!!! how bull is that. Last exam aswell so all my mates heading to tav as soon as its over.
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Yikes! I hope its on-line, otherwise you'd fall asleep past 10:30pm
 

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davo99 said:
Nope, Its at uni :mad: Lats exam aswell, Me and my mates heading straight to the pub literally will be sprinting there!
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That bites. My sympathy for you. Having at either 8 is no fun at all. When is the exam? I hope you go well. Drink to forget this mental nightmare.
 
MarcMaverick said:
That bites. My sympathy for you. Having at either 8 is no fun at all. When is the exam? I hope you go well. Drink to forget this mental nightmare.
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Thursday, 2 more then I'm done. Accounting tomorrow Is going to be difficult finished you'rs man?
 
Have two on Thursday, then I'm done. Despite not having had an exam since the 5th, I've only managed to learn about half of each unit. Also haven't got a lot of marks back from those two units, so I'm rolling the dice a bit. To be safe, I'm estimating I need 40% in one and 50% in the other to get the all important pass. Backing myself.
 
An 8:30pm exam is ridiculous. I thought my next two at 6pm were bad, but **** that. Counting down till Thursday 8:00 when the binge drinking can begin.
 

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