Student Chat Thread v2

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All of my exams are this week. One of them is four hours long.

I guess it means I'll get them out of the way pretty fast, but damn.
 
I actually did have my 4-hour (the shortest of all, all the other ones are 6-hour) final biology exam today. Better than expected, considering how much I have been slacking rather than studying.
... and of course the most obvious of all the things asked - I would have never expected something as easy as captioning a leaf being a task in a final exam - had to come to my mind just as I enter the car, 5 minutes after the end. Now I'll never forget again that wall-skin-whatever-thing is called epidermis... which will be a waste of brain space seeing as I'm never going to need that knowledge again.
 
The longest exam I ever had to do was 3 hours, and I thought that was rough. My sympathies go out to you both.
 
If you're satisfied with passes, anyway. A pass is, in England where Drakow and I are from anyway, pretty weak at a higher level. You won't really get much credit for it at all. You can get 40% easily enough but you'll probably want 70%+ to make any use out of it before uni. I don't really know how it works at uni, since I'm not there yet, but I think 80% is generally considered actually good?

Yeah I've never done an exam longer than three hours before.
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Try maths C1 and C2 back-to-back with extra time. Comes to almost 4 hours. Had me crying hard last year.
 
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UK university degree classification - at least at my uni - for those interested:

First class honours: 70%+
Upper second class honours (2:1): 60-69%
Lower second class honours (2:2): 50-59%
Third class honours honours: 40-49%
Fail: 0-39%

So 80% at a UK university is really, really good. It's a weird system, but it's what I and many other people have to deal with.
 
Razer Leaf. Getting 80% at university is considered GOD LIKE. My old house mate managed to get it and he is a freaking genius. At university, if you get at least 60% then that is considered a good achievement.

I remember when I had to do C4 and Module 5 for chemistry in one day. That was six hours of wreckage. I ended up getting above 80% for C4 but I think I got a C for the chemistry one.
 
WHOOPS. Ok then yeah 60-70% it is then, lmao. I don't even wanna imagine how hard the work must be. ~_~

Speaking of maths, C3 on Thursday, Jon and Drakow. Recent papers have been horrible since they've been told to make them harder so I'm expecting a bumpy ride. But there's not much I can't do in terms of theory at least... I just hope they don't throw up something too horrible.
 
Will do. I'm more worried about C4 than C3 right now, though. It's in just over two weeks and I've not got round to doing much preparation yet. I can't help but think that I'll end up being able to do most stuff other than vectors, which is what everyone seems to hate most.
 
I remember M1 having vector questions, usually at the end of papers, which weren't too hard at all. But I haven't yet managed to get my head around working with three vectors at a time rather than the two which you're given in M1. I'm also not used to working with them outside of SUVAT equations or whatever they're called. It's been a while lol. But I'll get used to it - got myself one of them CGP revision guides FYEAHHHH.
 
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