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The marking wasn't outsourced to the same contractor who supplies the mods for the other place, by any chance?
Sorry to hear of your grump....
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« Reply #76 on: 10:20:59, 01-03-2007 » |
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Exams are just horrible. I took my last exam at the age of 24 and said "Never again". And I never have.
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« Reply #77 on: 10:26:30, 01-03-2007 » |
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I know what you mean John W. At least we are not allowed now to get older and forget our exams.
Life is relentless and every time it is another hurdle to jump over. Every time there is something new they come up with. Some times I am waiting for another shoe to drop. I don't think it is a good attitude.
And the changes at Universities is difficult to get used to. Now all the sudden publications are not as important as being more applied and attract student numbers.
Somehow if I relax and accept things like they are it is easier.
Sending you good vibes for your next exam.
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« Reply #78 on: 10:38:39, 01-03-2007 » |
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Thanks t-p, mary, ron, I should be thankful that my life doesn't depend on the exam. I can still be a consultant without it, but maybe not get such good business. I feel more sorry for most of the other younger students who relied on it for a better job etc. Oh and another grump  I can pay to get the paper checked, but it's cheaper to resit  |
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« Reply #79 on: 10:46:19, 01-03-2007 » |
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I feel sorry for younger people to. I don't know how I got through my hurdles, but theirs seems very difficult.
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« Reply #80 on: 11:38:53, 01-03-2007 » |
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That sounds rough luck, John. Justified grump. My commiserations. Like Mary, I swore many years ago that I would never take another exam ever again. It seemed one of the few perks of getting older that at least you would never have all that again. (Please don't mention St Peter  But I believe that one may have been changed to continual assessment and project work these days rather than a final exam  ) You don't escape though. I still have repeated exam-anxiety dreams even though there hasn't been an exam imminent since 19...(cough). Perhaps I should join up for a bit of Open University 'Lyephlong Learning' if I'm going to have the perishing dreams anyway. |
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« Reply #81 on: 12:15:47, 01-03-2007 » |
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Thanks George. I didn't think the first paper of the exam was that difficult, it was mainy to do with managemnet systems, bit waffly and not all my waffle was relevant I guess, but when I spoke to the College secretary yesterday she was quite upset as the next course starts next week and the tutors have not had time to review their lessons content; so there's alot of grumpy, students, tutors, and college admin across the whole country. Funny you mentioned anxiety dreams. I've not had any about exams that I recall, but my missus is fed up of me jumping out of my sleep thinking I haven't taken my medicine - I'm never on medication John W |
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« Reply #82 on: 12:20:58, 01-03-2007 » |
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I'd say the majority of my anxiety dreams are about taking exams, but the worst anxiety dreams are the musical ones - one I had recently involved trying to get to a concert hall to play the solo part in Tchaikovsky's violin concerto, a work I don't really know and an instrument I don't play, and wondering whether I was going to be able to conceal those facts from the audience.
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« Reply #83 on: 12:24:59, 01-03-2007 » |
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I had a dream recently that involved me sitting a sightreading exam - but I had to do it all from memory...
And not long ago I turned up to a concert to listen to Brahms' 1st Piano Concerto to discover I was supposed to be playing it... strangely, my biggest anxiety was that I had the wrong shoes with me!
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« Reply #84 on: 12:29:24, 01-03-2007 » |
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Exam anxiety dreams are bad enough GG, but pity performers. My worst ever was finding myself in a musical I'd never done before and even worse than not knowing the script - a recurrent nightmare for us all - was the dreadful realisation that there was choreography as well. Someone pointed out that there were charts posted round the front of the circle with the positions of the feet marked, step by step, but I couldn't see them properly because the much of the lighting was rigged on the same plane and I couldn't see past it... (I've always been a particuarly slow study at choreography anyway. I hate auditions where it's suddenly sprung on you, and it's expected that 50+year-olds will have had the same dance training as the teenagers just out of college, let alone the same mobility... ) |
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« Reply #85 on: 12:44:56, 01-03-2007 » |
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My anxiety dreams are rather different, mostly involving heights! (as a vertigo sufferer) - many ending up with hanging off a huge cliff somewhere, or out of the window of a tall building, or the like.
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« Reply #86 on: 16:08:47, 01-03-2007 » |
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Ho! Vertigo is nasty.  |
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« Reply #87 on: 16:19:42, 01-03-2007 » |
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That will be the old West Country joke then;
Man on edge of cliff. "I'm not sure if I've got vertigo or not."
Second man. "No, you've not got vertigo; one more step and it's the end of your journey...." (Baaddumm-tsching)
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« Reply #88 on: 16:47:35, 01-03-2007 » |
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I kind of like that vertigo (when I am lying down). One can rest into it.
How did you find such a good picture. It makes me vertigo. I had a few spells of that a few times.
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« Reply #89 on: 16:57:33, 01-03-2007 » |
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One can rest I kind of like that vertigo (when I am lying down). I had a few spells of that a few times.
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