ste1987 Posted September 24, 2009 Share Posted September 24, 2009 Oh boy, Spencer Pratt? Yeah...they live close to my apartment. I always run into him in coffee shops. He's even more unattractive in person. Thats the one. Yeah, my first impression in five minutes was that he was an absoloute idiot so the channel was turned over there and then! MTV on the whole has gone rubbish to be honest. Hardly actually shows any music at all. However, I still find myself watching Cribs now and then when looking through channels Multiple choice... In Uni exams!!! Soon you'll be able to get a degree just for turning and writing your name on the paper. Yeah, it was ridiculous. It was a couple in first year. Part multi choice, part essay. Rest were a different story. It was the crappy modules more so I agree with what you say though. Much of it is spoon fed. However, it's seen as a win-win situation for all now so it's just the norm. Makes lecturers look good and the student is happy as they get a good mark making the money they spend on tuition fees seem like a worthwhile cost. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sarausa Posted September 24, 2009 Share Posted September 24, 2009 (edited) I agree -- I miss MTV when they played music and it wasn't just on early in the mornings or really late at night. The only reason I watch it now is because I have friends who are on things like "The Real World" and "Project Runway" -- otherwise, I'd stay clear! x And actually, all medical school exams in the U.S. are multiple choice exams. Edited September 24, 2009 by sarausa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nzlatic Posted September 24, 2009 Share Posted September 24, 2009 Spencer Pratt and his spooky flesh coloured beard. Has this board sunk to a new low?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sarausa Posted September 24, 2009 Share Posted September 24, 2009 Spencer Pratt and his spooky flesh coloured beard. Has this board sunk to a new low?! Hey, I didn't bring it up! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rudemedic Posted September 24, 2009 Share Posted September 24, 2009 Multiple choice... In Uni exams!!! Soon you'll be able to get a degree just for turning up and writing your name on the paper. In Medicine at post-graduate level (nevermind uni level) the written exams are multiple choice- they do have negative marking though (not in my exams). There is definately an element of playing the question (anything with always in the question is never right) and I like to play the averages. You'd be surprised but one question very early on in my uni career I could have passed just by introducing myself, being nice to the 'patient' and thanking them at the end (not now unfortunately). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sarausa Posted September 24, 2009 Share Posted September 24, 2009 In Medicine at post-graduate level (nevermind uni level) the written exams are multiple choice- they do have negative marking though (not in my exams). There is definately an element of playing the question (anything with always in the question is never right) and I like to play the averages. You'd be surprised but one question very early on in my uni career I could have passed just by introducing myself, being nice to the 'patient' and thanking them at the end (not now unfortunately). Yeah -- sometimes our multiple choice questions have letters a-j as answer options. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimsleftfoot Posted September 24, 2009 Share Posted September 24, 2009 (edited) In Medicine at post-graduate level (nevermind uni level) the written exams are multiple choice- they do have negative marking though (not in my exams). There is definately an element of playing the question (anything with always in the question is never right) and I like to play the averages. You'd be surprised but one question very early on in my uni career I could have passed just by introducing myself, being nice to the 'patient' and thanking them at the end (not now unfortunately). Well you'd get a lot of doctors who would fail that exam to be honest. Edited September 24, 2009 by jimsleftfoot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ste1987 Posted September 24, 2009 Share Posted September 24, 2009 I agree -- I miss MTV when they played music and it wasn't just on early in the mornings or really late at night. The only reason I watch it now is because I have friends who are on things like "The Real World" and "Project Runway" -- otherwise, I'd stay clear! x And actually, all medical school exams in the U.S. are multiple choice exams. The multiple choice element doesn't surprise me in the slightest. In ours, we had a lecturer who said he had some large mathematical equation which works out if people are guessing. My answer? A load of , the student may quite simply think he knows the answer but actually doesn't. Anyway's, my advice when in doubt remains. Go with 'C' Spencer Pratt and his spooky flesh coloured beard. Has this board sunk to a new low?! That was me discussing my hatred for things MTV related in answer to a previous question where I saw it for 5 minutes and couldn't remember his name. You my friend though should be ashamed of knowing of him so well! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leeslover Posted September 24, 2009 Share Posted September 24, 2009 There was a bird on my Uni who got a negative mark in one of her finals as you lost marks for getting a question wrong. We tried to pursuade her not to go to the other ones and boost her chances, maybe she should have stayed in bed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sarausa Posted September 24, 2009 Share Posted September 24, 2009 There was a bird on my Uni who got a negative mark in one of her finals as you lost marks for getting a question wrong. We tried to pursuade her not to go to the other ones and boost her chances, maybe she should have stayed in bed. Guess where we are right now. Class! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steveoafc Posted September 24, 2009 Share Posted September 24, 2009 Guess where we are right now. Class! Well done Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stitch_KTF Posted September 24, 2009 Share Posted September 24, 2009 The multiple choice element doesn't surprise me in the slightest. In ours, we had a lecturer who said he had some large mathematical equation which works out if people are guessing. My answer? A load of , the student may quite simply think he knows the answer but actually doesn't. And my answer? If they answer the question, but it's wrong, it was a guess. However, I'm not sure how to express this as an equation. My degree was the biggest waste of both time and money that I have known. Maybe I could put it to use by writing 500 words on OWTB every time somebody mentions something related to building. I could call myself rudebob. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thelaticsfan Posted September 24, 2009 Share Posted September 24, 2009 do they still bring around wheelbarrows for plague victims? or is that just the royal oldham hospital? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garcon Posted September 24, 2009 Share Posted September 24, 2009 "Oi! I'm not dead yet!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thelaticsfan Posted September 24, 2009 Share Posted September 24, 2009 "Oi! I'm not dead yet!" true legends, my kind of comedy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ste1987 Posted September 24, 2009 Share Posted September 24, 2009 And my answer? If they answer the question, but it's wrong, it was a guess. However, I'm not sure how to express this as an equation. My degree was the biggest waste of both time and money that I have known. Maybe I could put it to use by writing 500 words on OWTB every time somebody mentions something related to building. I could call myself rudebob. Thats what I mean. It would be hard to express that as an equation and unfair if they genuinely thought they knew it. I think they was trying to get at the point that if your not sure, leave it blank (however half the answers were flaming C anyhow ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leeslover Posted September 24, 2009 Share Posted September 24, 2009 It would be simple enough to tell the point at which someone started guessing, for example if you are on 75% for most of the quiz and then get 20% for the last section. Of course this wouldn’t help in the case of people who only know a fifth of the answers anyway, those who started the exam sober but drank extremely quickly and heavily during it or those who are close in the alphabet to the girl with the nicest arse in the school but manage to not start leaching at it through the gap in the back of her seat for the first couple of hours. God knows how I got any GCSEs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martjs Posted September 24, 2009 Share Posted September 24, 2009 Only just seen this thread. Jesus Christ. PMSL! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rudemedic Posted September 24, 2009 Share Posted September 24, 2009 Well you'd get a lot of doctors who would fail that exam to be honest. Which is why I still get marks for it- (sometimes it has been the only marks I've got). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rudemedic Posted September 24, 2009 Share Posted September 24, 2009 And my answer? If they answer the question, but it's wrong, it was a guess. However, I'm not sure how to express this as an equation. My degree was the biggest waste of both time and money that I have known. Maybe I could put it to use by writing 500 words on OWTB every time somebody mentions something related to building. I could call myself rudebob. Is that some kind of dig? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maddog Posted September 24, 2009 Share Posted September 24, 2009 My degree was the biggest waste of both time and money that I have known. Maybe I could put it to use by writing 500 words on OWTB every time somebody mentions something related to building. I could call myself rudebob. Now THAT tickled me! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stitch_KTF Posted September 24, 2009 Share Posted September 24, 2009 Is that some kind of dig? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeylandLatic Posted September 24, 2009 Share Posted September 24, 2009 And my answer? If they answer the question, but it's wrong, it was a guess. However, I'm not sure how to express this as an equation. My degree was the biggest waste of both time and money that I have known. Maybe I could put it to use by writing 500 words on OWTB every time somebody mentions something related to building. I could call myself rudebob. What was your degree just out of interest? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stitch_KTF Posted September 25, 2009 Share Posted September 25, 2009 (edited) What was your degree just out of interest? Quantity Surveying and Commercial Management. Sounds fairly grand doesn't it? However they taught me nothing that I have needed to know during my three years in industry, aside from stuff I would have picked up inside a month working in it, and stuff which is obsolete. Instead they just coax you through the loosely related assignments, striving to get good results at whatever cost in order to maintain/increase their budgets, and probably with an eye on a personal bonus/rise for themselves. What a degree does illustrate is a work ethic and the ability to apply oneself. For me the classifications are indications more of effort than ability. Near enough anybody could get a first, after all, all you have to do is hand in a draft assignment which will be marked and given back to you with fairly detailed information on how to improve it! My thought is that anybody with such a work ethic could go out into the world and make something for themselves, as opposed to for their boss, who probably hasn’t got a degree, and is away on holiday. I suppose many like to take the safe option, and see £50k a year and 25 days holiday up until 65 as their pinnacle. Of course highly skilled and vocational degrees, such as rudemedics, are invaluable. But then they aren’t taught like the majority of others are. Why? Because that would be grossly insufficient. Edited September 25, 2009 by Stitch_KTF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sarausa Posted September 25, 2009 Share Posted September 25, 2009 Quantity Surveying and Commercial Management. Sounds fairly impressive doesn't it? However they taught me nothing that I have needed to know during my three years in industry, aside from stuff I would have picked up inside a month working in it, and stuff which is obsolete. Instead they just coax you through the loosely related assignments, striving to get good results at whatever cost in order to maintain/increase their budgets, and probably with an eye on a personal bonus/rise for themselves. What a degree does illustrate is a work ethic and the ability to apply oneself. For me the classifications are indications more of effort than ability. Near enough anybody could get a first, after all, all you have to do is hand in a draft assignment which will be marked and given back to you with fairly detailed information on how to improve it! My thought is that anybody with such a work ethic could go out into the world and make something for themselves, as opposed to for their boss, who probably hasn’t got a degree, and is away on holiday. I suppose many like to take the safe option, and see £50k a year and 25 days holiday up until 65 as their pinnacle. Of course highly skilled and vocational degrees, such as rudemedics, are invaluable. But then they aren’t taught like the majority of others are. Why? Because that would be grossly insufficient. Amen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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