Exam discussion thread

They're slightly different I think, but apparantly it's mostly the same module. It counts as 30% of the module overall. We need 40% in each module overall to pass and we have to pass all the modules to progress onto the second year. 1st year scores dont count towards the overall degree classification so most people do just shoot for the 40 to stay in and then worry about getting more respectable grades in the next years.

This one had questions on:

-Profit and Loss Accounts
-Balance Sheets
-Accruals and Pre-paid Expenses
-Linear depreciation
-Profit margins
-Share Capital

Mostly A-Level stuff then.
I know that it doesn't count, wouldn't hate to not pass the first year!!
So basically you can in theory, get full marks on this MULTI CHOICE exam and then will just need 10% from jan and summer moudles? Oh no wait, you do diff modules after jan, so just the jan exams then. Yeah lol.

Pretty much, yep.
Theres a few people around who failed their first year and are back again this year doing it all again lol!
I'm sure a lot of people could have got full marks on this test today, I reckon I got about 17/20 something like that .... so yeh, the more you get now, the easier the christmas is revision-wise because the January exams are less important.

So do you have all business exams for this term now ish and in jan? OB is jsut c/w etc. Are they all 30% or completely and annoyingly random. Its good because if you work you can make it easy but if you don't your not totally screwed yet! I like the idea of doing well now though, less work and mor eplay later on in the year!!
Also are exams multi choice and written per moudle?

OR is the 40% an average so to say, and I've got it wrong??

also the tour girl doing International business, i think, said about the 40% pass thing but also that you could fail up to one module and still continue tot he next year? False then?

There's a retake season in around August, but I've known one person had to repeat the year with no chance of retakes because their attendance was bad!

I passed my QT!!

Well done, example questions? ...

Before anyone jumps at me and says that I am giving away this years paper, it was from the practice test.

An asset, A, has a present value of £10000 which depreciates exponentially. The value of the asset at the end of t years is given by y = 10000e^-0.12t How many years (to 2dp) will it take for the asset to depreciate down to £3000?

Its really annoying, I know what I got but I don't know which ones I got right and which ones I got wrong, I'm really intrigued. Actually I know 2 I got wrong, one I picked randomly from the multiple choice, the other I picked a number out of the air.

Oh god. Do the tutorials explain this sort of stuff though right....? I didn't do A-Level maths*
How would you work it out, is it a blatantly obvious one to you? :/
But thank you though

Oh god. Do the tutorials explain this sort of stuff though right....? I didn't do A-Level maths*
How would you work it out, is it a blatantly obvious one to you? :/
But thank you though

Feel free to do that too, by the way.

You evidently do not need them, I hate people who are clever at maths

also the tour girl doing International business, i think, said about the 40% pass thing but also that you could fail up to one module and still continue tot he next year? False then?

Also, your first year might not go towards anything in terms of your degree but when you are applying for placements for your 3rd year employers will look at your 1st year grades. That is all they will have to go on because you won't have taken your 2nd year exams by the time your start applying. So it's kind of important for other reasons that your try (at least a bit!) in your first year!