2nd year uni (starting 2018)

[HSMMaCM]

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Poor DS , he’s having a dreadful time!

The exam he was stressing about was as awful as expected, good news is everyone thought it awful, found the teaching awful. someone organised a spreadsheet of everyone’s comments ( over 50 of them) and an official complaint has been made - guess when you charge £9k due tuition you have to listen for feedback. Uni is considering the issue apparently.

....and his house was burgled last night when they were in bed. He had left his laptop downstairs ( despite being warned 100 times not to) and that’s gone!

Oh no! Had he backed it up?

Oh Eve, that's awful but maybe it was a good thing his laptop WAS downstairs, as getting that might have stopped the thief from going upstairs and being confronted by the occupants?

That said, if his work isn't backed up, I can imagine how he feels.

My DS is very despondent about his exam the other day. 'Worst exam EVER', apparently.
Hopefully he won't brood on that too much & will crack on preparing for this week's exam.

Oh no about the horrible exam and the stolen laptop.

We saw DD today. She and her flat mate look ashen. Prep for exams is taking its toll.

She and friends have put in applications for several houses this month and haven't got any of them. There are about 20 applications for every house. I just wish she could get it sorted, so she's not worrying about accommodation at the same time as writing assignments and revising.

Sorry to hear about the burglary Eve. Ds also had his worst ever exam Horsemad, he was quite down after it but has picked himself up and has got stuck back in to revision ready for his last exam on Tuesday.
He was ill over Christmas and the New Year and was still unwell when we took him back. He has struggled to do as much revision as he normally would but is doing as much as he can. He has 10 days between his last exam and first lecture of the term and at the moment is undecided as to whether to stay in Sheffield or come home for a bit of a break.

Sorry to hear about the laptop and horrible exams. Was the laptop insured Eve?

Laptop is insured and backed up thankfully!

It’s provided by dsa so has all the dictation and grammar software that will need sorting and reinstalling . It’s insured via dsa so hopefully they will help - if not it’s on our house insurance.

He was gutted earlier and really down, but spoke to him this evening, said these things happen, students are always a target and not to worry and he seems to have picked himself up and he’s back revising.

Glad your son is ok, Eve. What a horrible experience for him and his housemates.

DS2 has an essay due in this week but his exams are in the Summer term. Doing exams at a time of year when more people are likely to be run down with winter lurgies seems daft to me, but I presume it's to tie in with modules finishing.

DDs exam was only a mock, her real ones are in summer.

Mock exams aren't a bad idea as it will allow them to gauge how they're doing.

Mocks can also help show if some aspect of the teaching thus far has been inadequate, if everyone struggles with a particular question.

DS hasn't had exams in January either this year or last and it has been a massive relief to him and me just to get off the revision treadmill over Christmas for the past couple of years after mocks every January since Year 9. He did then go on to panic in the summer exams, as he had no way of knowing if he was learning to the right depth or even the right areas etc. So mocks do help.

There's no let up for him though, as they are massively piling on the work content-wise, lecture-wise and practical wise on his med course. He has a practical exam this week on clinical skills (taking blood from a plastic arm, catheters, blood pressure etc) and he was telling me how a friend failed for forgetting to check the plastic arm's name! Obviously fair enough but I can see how talking to a dismembered limb might get forgotten in the stress of being observed doing the actual check!

DD had exams at the end of each term last year, but at the end of each semester this year, so exams in Feb and Summer. She has a completely different timetable after the February exams.

DS has another exam today, fingers crossed it's better than the last one! He says most people he spoke to afterwards thought it was horrible, so maybe it wasn't just him having a bad day.

Dds just had her last exam and is celebrating already. I don't think she will need to eat for the rest of the day...

What a way to celebrate!

dd continues to love and do well in her course. House / friends all working out. So far so good.

Hope all your offspring are happy.

That is an incredible drink/cake!
The one of my twins who has had exams at Bristol has now finished. He said the last one was easy (his famous last words - never wise to say so of course......). I think he is home sometime this week or next for a medical appointment.
Meanwhile one of their sisters has just arrived today in Mexico (holiday) and other is in Dubai on holiday without the babies but with her husband for a long weekend for them both away from work, which is really nice for them. i can remember that stage - both working full time and small children at home. It is exhausting. So my other son and I have been sending them pictures of all our snow here (and where my son is - he got some good ones of llamas with snow on their backs on his walk yesterday near his house).

Glad LS that your daughter is still enjoying her course. I was just chatting to my older son yesterday and saying how lucky we all are that no one is ill and everyone seems happy (of course we never know I suppose but I hope they'd tell me if there were a problem).

No word from DS yet - not sure if that's good or bad.

All went ok apparently!

Great news Horsemad. Does he have any more still to go?

Thanks MPG, he has something called a '48hr exam' tomorrow, a sort of short assignment to be handed in on Sunday.

yes, mine only had mocks and his twin no exams, just various assignments. I am assuming silence means they are fine although one ded say i was the best mother on the planet when I agreed to buy him a £100 clothing item (what my mother used to call "cupboard love" I suppose, laughing as I type). I said knowing my luck it will be pure white and dry clean only (I said get dark colours and washable).

Just refound this! Seems like quite a few have had exams - glad your DS seems more positive Horse.

DD had exams and essays this last couple of weeks - all count towards final degree marks, so she has been working hard. Said the exam was bad and she was fretting over the last essay, but now able to relax and party a bit

Sorry to hear about burglaries - students are such a target.

DD has exams next week. Her long term boyfriend dumped her this weekend. They've been living together for 2 years. She's a wreck.

We're in full damage limitation mode here.

Oh HSMMaCM, that's awful, your poor DD ☹️