Dunning1874 Posted December 10, 2009 Share Posted December 10, 2009 Making a start to a History essay tonight: 2500 words on 'Did Chartism succeed or fail?' Something of a temptation to write 'epic fail' 1250 times. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ad Lib Posted December 10, 2009 Share Posted December 10, 2009 Making a start to a History essay tonight: 2500 words on 'Did Chartism succeed or fail?'Something of a temptation to write 'epic fail' 1250 times. How are you going to approach it (out of interest)? I guess a lot of their objectives were met, but not because of anything they actually did! I seem to recall our History teacher telling us that Queen Victoria signed the Chartist's petition about 20 times... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supras Posted December 10, 2009 Share Posted December 10, 2009 Despite a natural interest in history the subject is taught and assessed so poorly I will probably drop it next semester for something like criminology or sociology. Yes, it really is that bad. There is only so much you can take of Cluny and Hildegard of Bingen. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dunning1874 Posted December 10, 2009 Share Posted December 10, 2009 How are you going to approach it (out of interest)? I guess a lot of their objectives were met, but not because of anything they actually did! I seem to recall our History teacher telling us that Queen Victoria signed the Chartist's petition about 20 times... I think I'm just going to start rambling and see where it takes me, but it's certainly not going to be too kind to the Chartists - as you say, they achieved pretty much bugger all in the grand scheme of things. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vikingTON Posted December 10, 2009 Share Posted December 10, 2009 Despite a natural interest in history the subject is taught and assessed so poorly I will probably drop it next semester for something like criminology or sociology.Yes, it really is that bad. There is only so much you can take of Cluny and Hildegard of Bingen. But according to Exuberant: Glasgow = brilliant for everything... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ad Lib Posted December 10, 2009 Share Posted December 10, 2009 But according to Exuberant: Glasgow = brilliant for everything... I never said it was "brilliant for everything". 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vikingTON Posted December 10, 2009 Share Posted December 10, 2009 I never said it was "brilliant for everything". Yeah you did, Page 90-something. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spiders For Life Posted December 10, 2009 Share Posted December 10, 2009 Despite a natural interest in history the subject is taught and assessed so poorly I will probably drop it next semester for something like criminology or sociology.Yes, it really is that bad. There is only so much you can take of Cluny and Hildegard of Bingen. It isn't that bad that you want to take sociology. Trust me, do not put yourself through that 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ad Lib Posted December 10, 2009 Share Posted December 10, 2009 Yeah you did, Page 90-something. I have never said that it was brilliant at everything. I said it wasn't a "Mickey Mouse University". 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaz Posted December 11, 2009 Share Posted December 11, 2009 I've done a bit more digging into Stirling University's Honours Classification and I'm actually completely bemused. Whereas other Universities have a system where 70%+ = 1st, 60%+ = 2:1, 50%+ = 2:2 and 40% + = Third, Stirling appears to completely contradict this. The grading system works as follows: 1A, 1B, 1C - First 2A, 2B, 2C - 2:1 2D, 2E, 2F - 2:2 3A, 3B, 3C - 3rd But in an email I've had from last semester it suggests that 2C is 70%. What's more their bloody website is down so I can't have a shoofty around the Ruffell Algorithm thing they use 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Broken Algorithms Posted December 11, 2009 Share Posted December 11, 2009 Isn't it that you only need 40% of the total mark to get a pass? Obviously you won't exactly be hitting honours with that... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaz Posted December 11, 2009 Share Posted December 11, 2009 Isn't it that you only need 40% of the total mark to get a pass? Obviously you won't exactly be hitting honours with that... No, believe it or not about 40% counts as a third-class Honours degree in most British Universities. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Kevin Of Kilsyth Posted December 11, 2009 Share Posted December 11, 2009 Ive pretty much dingied the studying. Really cannae go it the now. Hopefully I can still scrape it. Good luck tomorrow anyway the ones that are doing Management. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raith Against The Machine Posted December 11, 2009 Share Posted December 11, 2009 Ive pretty much dingied the studying. Really cannae go it the now. Hopefully I can still scrape it. Good luck tomorrow anyway the ones that are doing Management. Same to you. I've managed a 2A from the project, so it shouldn't take a massive amount of effort to pass. I've actually done more preparation for this than any other exam ever, purely because of the fact that I read the first half of the book that Friedman's Flattening Forces come from (The World Is Flat). It's actually pretty interesting, if you're a boring b*****d like me, and if I hadn't only found it yesterday I would've liked to have read the whole thing before this exam. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spiders For Life Posted December 11, 2009 Share Posted December 11, 2009 15. it's an absolute shiter. i just copied and pasted all the questions in to google though. It was a farce of an exam, I just cant see what we would gain from being able to place quotes to authors. Still, to make that 20% of the grade I'm not complaining. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevenc1991 Posted December 11, 2009 Share Posted December 11, 2009 Only done 3/4 of my mechanics exam, the cock put a question in that I reckon no one knew how to do, total w**k, still hoping for an A mind you 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Broken Algorithms Posted December 11, 2009 Share Posted December 11, 2009 No, believe it or not about 40% counts as a third-class Honours degree in most British Universities. There is hope for me after all! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Donaghy Posted December 11, 2009 Share Posted December 11, 2009 Aircraft Structures and Materials 5 tomorrow at half 9 Worst course I have ever done at Uni, with a poor lecturer, shocking quality of notes, absolutely no examples and no indication what is in exam. The only two past papers are the excact same and I can do them; any deviation from that and I, and I suspect/hope everyone else, will fail spectacularly 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaz Posted December 12, 2009 Share Posted December 12, 2009 Aircraft Structures and Materials 5 tomorrow at half 9 Worst course I have ever done at Uni, with a poor lecturer, shocking quality of notes, absolutely no examples and no indication what is in exam. The only two past papers are the excact same and I can do them; any deviation from that and I, and I suspect/hope everyone else, will fail spectacularly Metal, glass and wheels. There are two wings, a cockpit and some seats. Nothing difficult about that I have Finance tomorrow morning at 9. I'm pretty hacked off with myself as I made an arse of the project (worth 25% of the grade) by misunderstanding the question, which means instead of a 1 banding I'll be lucky with a 2. The exam's worth 75%. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Donaghy Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 Well Saturday's exam was just rewritten past paper questions with some different numbers so should have aced it, and that coupled with 20% FAE Assignment I should be able to get an A; even accounting for the lecturer's random markings. Last late night library session finished just there and feeling quite confident about Flight Dynamics 4 on Tuesday; could easily have got an A if I started studying a bit earlier but will accept a B if it's coming. Cannot wait for these to be over 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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