Hugs, anyone?
14 January 2004 13:12![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
enismirdalI know I'm not normally the depressive type, being as I am bouncy and insufferable in the extreme, but one thing that really gets me is exams, and I've just had one, and the QB was really bad (I thought I was going in with a positive mental attitude, but somewhere something clearly went wrong). I know I've done pretty badly because they say most people do on the January college exams, but I'm really scared I've done really badly.
*sniffle* I need a hug and reasssurance that failing exams does not result in immediate death. Anyone, please?
*sniffle* I need a hug and reasssurance that failing exams does not result in immediate death. Anyone, please?
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Date: 14 Jan 2004 05:21 (UTC)I failed an entire class ... in my major (I guess that doesn't really matter here because you don't seem to take much outside your major/focus/whatever). I was still able to get a good job and do well after uni.
You could always become a
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Date: 14 Jan 2004 05:32 (UTC)Community is great - just the kind of place for depressed dragons. Lots of love for the taking :)
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Date: 14 Jan 2004 07:37 (UTC)no subject
Date: 14 Jan 2004 05:28 (UTC)Failing exams doesn't result in immediate death. Well, doing badly in them doesn't anyway; I know from experience.
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Date: 14 Jan 2004 05:34 (UTC)Hopefully my DOS won't yell at me. I tried, I really did.
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Date: 14 Jan 2004 05:39 (UTC)Failing/getting bad marks in exams isn't that terrible! I did it all the time - in my college exams, I usually got about 40%!
One of my finals (worth about 15% of my entire degree) had a pass mark of about 8% and a 2:1 mark of somewhere in the 20%s! (according to the reports sent to the tutors)
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Date: 14 Jan 2004 05:48 (UTC)I think a 3rd is about 30-40% on ours, although I'm not sure whether they could even find me that much. I'm wondering whether I can use this to persuade Dr T to let me do E&B...
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Date: 14 Jan 2004 06:01 (UTC)no subject
Date: 14 Jan 2004 05:50 (UTC)no subject
Date: 14 Jan 2004 06:09 (UTC)I went to
There. I'm getting a bit happier now.
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Date: 14 Jan 2004 06:17 (UTC)January exams are traditionally painful. Your DOS may shout at you a bit if they or your supervisors think you're not working hard enough, but the object of the exercise is to see how well you're doing, and to identify areas that need further work.
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Date: 14 Jan 2004 06:23 (UTC)no subject
Date: 14 Jan 2004 06:51 (UTC)That's my theory - and it worked for me.
*hugs*
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Date: 14 Jan 2004 08:50 (UTC)I had to do badly in the real thing...
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Date: 14 Jan 2004 09:42 (UTC)no subject
Date: 14 Jan 2004 09:48 (UTC)So not true. There are really no guarantees of that any more. And although they may try not to fail people, remember these are college exams, not uni ones. The colleges are competitive as HELL ('cept in May Week, Varsity and The Great Boat Race). They have to examine us at the same standard as the other colleges, cos that's how we'll be examined at the end of the year. And they can't make our grade boundaries lower than at other colleges, cos that makes it looks like Catz is full of thickos (although you'll find that peep at, e.g. John's will say we are anyway!). Competition breeds equality. Or something like that.
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Date: 14 Jan 2004 09:47 (UTC)no subject
Date: 14 Jan 2004 09:51 (UTC)My bedder waved her ciggy packet at me and pointed out that these would probably kill her long before exams ever kill me, which is another way of looking at it, I suppose.
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Date: 14 Jan 2004 11:09 (UTC)and brightened my day,
you never believe it,
it was just like a dream,
now it all seems lightyears away!
You know I can't smile without you...'