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The Tripos Exam Stress Thread - Current Cambridge Students Only

Well, as you probably know, I convinced myself I was going to fail tort last year and the only reason I wasn't in tears after the paper was because it was my last one and because I was relieved that I could take a stab at 4 questions. And it was nowhere near as bad as I thought. Tort's random like that. You may have done better than you thought you have (and I bet you have!)

I'm bricking land. I spent 2 hours forcing Stack v Dowden into my head and I *still* don't understand it. Not completely. I'm just going to do the question and decide randomly which approach I prefer, probably depending on my mood... And adverse possession is the most awful thing on this green Earth!

Thanks! Perhaps it's not so bad.

Re Stack, I think there's three points to take away--if this helps at all. I expect you already have these straight, but sometimes it's good to lean towards ruthless simplification in the interests of clarity.
1. The court presumes the equitable interests follow the legal ownership
2. This presumption is rebuttable, but requires strong evidence--on the facts of Stack, the separate accounts kept by Stack and Dowden and careful separation of affairs rebutted the presumption.
3. Context is everything.

Give me a ring if you need to re Stack, but within the next half or so--I think I have a pretty good grasp of it (unlike plenty of other stuff in land), so perhaps I can help.

(The guy who wrote the book TWW recommended interviewed me at Lincoln College in the other place--absolutely destroyed me.)

Also, try here: http://login.westlaw.co.uk/maf/wluk/app/document?&src=rl&srguid=ia744d0650000013061a5656dcd7a20b3&docguid=IE11310E062E911E0995F8ABFD236DAED&hitguid=IE11310E062E911E0995F8ABFD236DAED&spos=1&epos=1&td=13&crumb-action=append&context=4&resolvein=true

And here: http://login.westlaw.co.uk/maf/wluk/app/document?&src=rl&srguid=ia744d0640000013061a5f06c64a13b1f&docguid=IFE8677F15E6811E090EA89A3987631E1&hitguid=IFE8677F15E6811E090EA89A3987631E1&spos=1&epos=1&td=1&crumb-action=append&context=8&resolvein=true

Reply 581

Zygroth

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Original post by ukebert

Single digits? Blimey. I've never gone below 20% (although I've been down to the low twenties twice and probably will once more, given how badly my second exam went).

According to my supervisor a few years ago they screwed up with the normalisation of marks for NST IB Maths with the result that they lost the tens digit on all results so everyone got single digit marks (for a while) :p:

Reply 582

illusionz

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Definetely failed IB chemistry A on friday... got the next one on wednesday which will be even worse. Here's to praying I get a high 2:1 or even a first in Chem B to salvage my year...

Reply 583

Slumpy

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Original post by Gesar

It's now that I start listing all the topics in my head that I've dropped (mostly Rep Theory ones), and wishing I'd bothered to learn them more, despite the fact they've never come up. We shall see!

I've finally been hit by slight worry. If every course I've done examines bits I've missed out, I'm screwed. Now, they couldn't all do that for everything, but one exam sat doing nothing would be the worst thing ever :p:

Reply 584

Y__

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Original post by Slumpy

I've finally been hit by slight worry. If every course I've done examines bits I've missed out, I'm screwed. Now, they couldn't all do that for everything, but one exam sat doing nothing would be the worst thing ever :p:

Heh. If every course examines the bits I can accurately remember, I'm not screwed. Otherwise... :tongue:

Anyways, good night!

Ooooooooh, nerves!

Original post by Slumpy

I've finally been hit by slight worry. If every course I've done examines bits I've missed out, I'm screwed. Now, they couldn't all do that for everything, but one exam sat doing nothing would be the worst thing ever :p:

Heh, I did massive amounts of tactical revising this year. Worked for most of it. Except Fluids 1, but that was a stupidly hard paper anyway, so it'll bumped up. I hope.

Reply 587

Zygroth

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Original post by illusionz

Definetely failed IB chemistry A on friday... got the next one on wednesday which will be even worse. Here's to praying I get a high 2:1 or even a first in Chem B to salvage my year...

I thought this next one would be easier and gave myself the rest of Friday, yesterday and most of today off. Turns out it's actually harder :angry:

Reply 588

Zhen Lin

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Had a sleepless night. Gaps in my revision plagued my thoughts, and I couldn't clear my mind. On the plus side, I managed to plug some of those gaps on my own without getting up, so if it comes up in the exam I'll know it...

Reply 589

illusionz

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Original post by Zygroth

I thought this next one would be easier and gave myself the rest of Friday, yesterday and most of today off. Turns out it's actually harder :angry:

Electrons in solids is the most retarded course I've ever done. MELT is ok but so many equations. It would have been ok if Stephen Jenkins had any sort of idea what level of detail 2nd years are capable of learning in one lecture...

Reply 590

pigetrational

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Original post by illusionz

Electrons in solids is the most retarded course I've ever done. MELT is ok but so many equations. It would have been ok if Stephen Jenkins had any sort of idea what level of detail 2nd years are capable of learning in one lecture...

I quite like it! Still not actually looking forward to the exam of course...

Reply 591

ArchedEdge

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Lunch breaks should most definitely NOT take 2 hours long....

Reply 592

ukebert

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Original post by ArchedEdge

Lunch breaks should most definitely NOT take 2 hours long....

I know that feeling... I have it now :p:

Reply 593

Gesar

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zhen lin

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Was the Galois one really hard or really easy? :p:

I'm assuming I did it wrong as I never seem to get those questions right, but it'd be nice to know so my inner OCD is satisfied.

Reply 594

username218989

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Original post by ArchedEdge

Lunch breaks should most definitely NOT take 2 hours long....

3 hours since this mornings exam, all I've done is walk home via Sainsburys, have lunch and chat/procrastinate. Reeeeally need to do some revision for tomorrow now :frown:

Reply 595

ArchedEdge

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Original post by ClaireW2708

3 hours since this mornings exam, all I've done is walk home via Sainsburys, have lunch and chat/procrastinate. Reeeeally need to do some revision for tomorrow now :frown:

Nahh too late now :p:

Just relax....

Reply 596

Zhen Lin

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Original post by Gesar

Was the Galois one really hard or really easy? :p:

I'm assuming I did it wrong as I never seem to get those questions right, but it'd be nice to know so my inner OCD is satisfied.

Yes, it was easy. It took a little thought to find the counterexample at the end though.

I heard that someone became hysterical when they announced the "correction" for the Representation Theory question though...

Reply 597

jfox223

Original post by TheUnbeliever

I attended a single term's lectures last year, entirely didn't understand physics (which was something like 28% of my grade) to the tune of a single-digit mark on the exam, physically lost about a third of my portfolio, and stopped going to practicals and some supervisions by partway into exam term. I still passed.

(I don't recommend this approach, I was in a bad place at the time. :p:

)

That's quite a situation, though I bet you revised even a bit? Honestly, I'm starting my revision today for exams which begin on Wednesday...things are looking altogether inauspicious :frown:

Reply 598

alex_hk90

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Original post by jfox223

That's quite a situation, though I bet you revised even a bit? Honestly, I'm starting my revision today for exams which begin on Wednesday...things are looking altogether inauspicious :frown:

You'd be surprised at how common this actually is - I only yesterday finished learning new stuff for Wednesday morning's exam.