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Hi, my name is Nathan Edgy. You may remember me from such message boards as Incontinence Sufferers Anonymous and Inferior Genital Forums. Satan, Hitler, Ghandi and Dark Mark. What do they all have in common? That's right! They're evil!
However, there is something even more evil than the above, and I'm sure many of you have felt the wrath of this evil already. That is: Exams.
Sure, I'm a veteran when it comes to taking exams. I've passed my year 1/2 (which ever it is) SATs, year 6 SATs, year 9 SATs, year 10 mocks, year 11 mocks and even GCSEs! So I should be used to exams by now surely!
But there was one thing I wasn't prepared for....AS levels.
I have to say I've done just about all of them now, though I can bet anything I'll be taking at least one resit! Here's my exam timetable:
Wednesday 28th May - History - 3 hours
Thursday 29th May - IT - 3 hours
Friday 30th May - Physics - 3 hours
Thursday 6th June - GameCube - For ages!
Tuesday 11th June - Physics - 1.5 hours
So as you can see, I've had it bad with AS exams! Sure, I ain't got as many as I had for GCSEs, year 11s and year 10s, but look at the length of the majority! 3 Hours! Do you realise how hard it is to sit there and keep quiet for 3 hours whilst trying to do the most impossible exams? As I said, it's EVIL!
History:
The Nazi Germany paper went fine, but that's what you'd expect with a Nazi Germany teacher called Dr. Litler (who got her doctorate in Medieval Fishing Techniques allegedly). If you don't believe that's her name (Litler as opposed to Hitler) then search for Llanishen High and call the school!
Russian and Imperial history papers went really badly! I knew they were going to be hard. But my mind blanked and I couldn't remember any proper details! The Germany paper was source based, but these two were essay based! They were SOOOO HARD! I ended up giving very vague answers and I'm just hoping for the best.
IT (Computing):
These two exams went fine! I was amazed that I was the only one writing in the last half hour with each paper. I think everyone else stuck short answers, or wrote at the speed of light, though I think it's the first reason. The trouble with IT is that if you give short answers, and don't explain everything properly, there's no chance of getting full marks. ah well, I gave it my best, answered as fully as I could, and I reckon out of all the exams I've taken so far, the IT papers are the ones I did best in.
Physics:
Well I've still the 1.5 hour paper left to do, and I'm not very confident (as opposed to incontinent) that I got a high grade. I reckon I got enough for a pass, but I was guessing most the answers. Why is it that the papers weren't even similar to last years ones we used as practise tests? It's just not fair!
GameCube:
6th of June I will be purchasing my GameCube. I'm fairly confident that I will enjoy this over everything else. The only trouble is, I wont be able to get out of my seat for ages, as I'll be glued to the screen controlling animated figures fighting each other, racing and sucking up ghosts. Hope to get good results, got my fingers crossed!
Exams are EVIL! Sorry for sounding as camp as Brian from Big Brother 2, but it's true! As-levels (and the full A-levels) are meant to be the hardest qualifications in the world to get, and I can see why! There is so much packed into each course, that the teachers have had many years to learn, we've had 9 or so months to learn.
If you've just finished your GCSE's and are thinking of staying on for 6th form, think very hard about it. Socially, it's brilliant, however you wont know what stress is til you've started getting the coursework assignments and the exams start getting ever closer.
Exams = Evil.
Nuff said.
However, there is something even more evil than the above, and I'm sure many of you have felt the wrath of this evil already. That is: Exams.
Sure, I'm a veteran when it comes to taking exams. I've passed my year 1/2 (which ever it is) SATs, year 6 SATs, year 9 SATs, year 10 mocks, year 11 mocks and even GCSEs! So I should be used to exams by now surely!
But there was one thing I wasn't prepared for....AS levels.
I have to say I've done just about all of them now, though I can bet anything I'll be taking at least one resit! Here's my exam timetable:
Wednesday 28th May - History - 3 hours
Thursday 29th May - IT - 3 hours
Friday 30th May - Physics - 3 hours
Thursday 6th June - GameCube - For ages!
Tuesday 11th June - Physics - 1.5 hours
So as you can see, I've had it bad with AS exams! Sure, I ain't got as many as I had for GCSEs, year 11s and year 10s, but look at the length of the majority! 3 Hours! Do you realise how hard it is to sit there and keep quiet for 3 hours whilst trying to do the most impossible exams? As I said, it's EVIL!
History:
The Nazi Germany paper went fine, but that's what you'd expect with a Nazi Germany teacher called Dr. Litler (who got her doctorate in Medieval Fishing Techniques allegedly). If you don't believe that's her name (Litler as opposed to Hitler) then search for Llanishen High and call the school!
Russian and Imperial history papers went really badly! I knew they were going to be hard. But my mind blanked and I couldn't remember any proper details! The Germany paper was source based, but these two were essay based! They were SOOOO HARD! I ended up giving very vague answers and I'm just hoping for the best.
IT (Computing):
These two exams went fine! I was amazed that I was the only one writing in the last half hour with each paper. I think everyone else stuck short answers, or wrote at the speed of light, though I think it's the first reason. The trouble with IT is that if you give short answers, and don't explain everything properly, there's no chance of getting full marks. ah well, I gave it my best, answered as fully as I could, and I reckon out of all the exams I've taken so far, the IT papers are the ones I did best in.
Physics:
Well I've still the 1.5 hour paper left to do, and I'm not very confident (as opposed to incontinent) that I got a high grade. I reckon I got enough for a pass, but I was guessing most the answers. Why is it that the papers weren't even similar to last years ones we used as practise tests? It's just not fair!
GameCube:
6th of June I will be purchasing my GameCube. I'm fairly confident that I will enjoy this over everything else. The only trouble is, I wont be able to get out of my seat for ages, as I'll be glued to the screen controlling animated figures fighting each other, racing and sucking up ghosts. Hope to get good results, got my fingers crossed!
Exams are EVIL! Sorry for sounding as camp as Brian from Big Brother 2, but it's true! As-levels (and the full A-levels) are meant to be the hardest qualifications in the world to get, and I can see why! There is so much packed into each course, that the teachers have had many years to learn, we've had 9 or so months to learn.
If you've just finished your GCSE's and are thinking of staying on for 6th form, think very hard about it. Socially, it's brilliant, however you wont know what stress is til you've started getting the coursework assignments and the exams start getting ever closer.
Exams = Evil.
Nuff said.
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I think the writing on it was about keeping the bloodline pure, which was relavant to one of the questions.
Edgy wrote:
> Stryke wrote:
> I took the Nazi paper? Was that the one on anti-semetism, or the
> essay
> and the Wall Street Crash contributing to Hitler's rise?
>
> It was the anti-semitism one. Wasn't too bad that one.
--
I found it OK, but the S.S source with the guy looking at a pram with an Aryan baby in didn't really have any relevance to anti-semitism.
> Stryke wrote:
> I took the Nazi paper? Was that the one on anti-semetism, or the
> essay
> and the Wall Street Crash contributing to Hitler's rise?
>
> It was the anti-semitism one. Wasn't too bad that one.
--
I found it OK, but the S.S source with the guy looking at a pram with an Aryan baby in didn't really have any relevance to anti-semitism.
I got an A in my English Language Year 10 MOCK! Wahoo! {:)
Although I did get a D in Maths...and I'm in the top set too.
Although I did get a D in Maths...and I'm in the top set too.
Stryke wrote:
> I took the Nazi paper? Was that the one on anti-semetism, or the essay
> and the Wall Street Crash contributing to Hitler's rise?
It was the anti-semitism one. Wasn't too bad that one.
> I took the Nazi paper? Was that the one on anti-semetism, or the essay
> and the Wall Street Crash contributing to Hitler's rise?
It was the anti-semitism one. Wasn't too bad that one.
er, yeah...
yeah, but History essays you need to know loads of facts and stuff, and while you can get by not knowing some of the stuff for History, you won't get a good mark... not like English where you can just make up stuff on the spot and still get a good mark.
I find essay based exams to be the easiest.
Enlgish exams are usually easy. But then we come to Maths and Chemistry where you actually need to know a hell of a lot of insanely stupid stuff in order to do well.
When in life am I ever going to need to know what colour flame sodium gives when reacted with water!?!
Enlgish exams are usually easy. But then we come to Maths and Chemistry where you actually need to know a hell of a lot of insanely stupid stuff in order to do well.
When in life am I ever going to need to know what colour flame sodium gives when reacted with water!?!
After taking GCSE history I am not even going to consoder it for A-level... while my teacher says I should cos I am quite good at it, the History exams...! They are killer, essays suck! Not looking forward to my 2 History exams after half term...
I have my GCSEs at the moment. I haven't done any revision yet either(except for about 10 minutes of Biology on the bus and learning a few facts for case studies in Geography - none of which I had the opportuniuty to use in the damn exam!). I have been planning to revise and I know I should but it's difficult since I have FFX and to a lesser extent, Smash Bros.
I didn't revise for Biology (apart from on the bus like I said) so I thought I was gonna do really bad. However, it went really well and I think I did pretty good. That gave me a great deal of confidence so I didn't bother revising for my Maths non-calculator paper - which also went well. That means I probably won't revise for Chemisty either but I know I have to. In chemistry, you need to know what you're talking about. You have to know the facts, the forumlas, the colours of what each metal goes to when put in water, and loads of other crap which I probably don't even realise I've been taught. It's my first exam after half term and I'm getting Medal of Honor Frontline on Friday. The exam is on the 10th of June which is the Monday after I get Medal of Honor. That's not good.
Oh well, at least the only tough ones I have left are Chemistry, Maths and Statistics. Although Stats is easy, they always bundle in a ridiculous amount of numbers for each question just so you ruin it somewhere and miss out one number. I need like 70% in the Graphics exam just to pass but I suppose I couldn't really care less about that. And I know I'll get an A in Physics. Yes that's right, I know it! Even if he did only predict me a B!
That's just wrong. I was predicted all A's except for 3 B's and one of those Bs was in Physics, one of my strongest subjects. Pah! I'll show him.
I didn't revise for Biology (apart from on the bus like I said) so I thought I was gonna do really bad. However, it went really well and I think I did pretty good. That gave me a great deal of confidence so I didn't bother revising for my Maths non-calculator paper - which also went well. That means I probably won't revise for Chemisty either but I know I have to. In chemistry, you need to know what you're talking about. You have to know the facts, the forumlas, the colours of what each metal goes to when put in water, and loads of other crap which I probably don't even realise I've been taught. It's my first exam after half term and I'm getting Medal of Honor Frontline on Friday. The exam is on the 10th of June which is the Monday after I get Medal of Honor. That's not good.
Oh well, at least the only tough ones I have left are Chemistry, Maths and Statistics. Although Stats is easy, they always bundle in a ridiculous amount of numbers for each question just so you ruin it somewhere and miss out one number. I need like 70% in the Graphics exam just to pass but I suppose I couldn't really care less about that. And I know I'll get an A in Physics. Yes that's right, I know it! Even if he did only predict me a B!
That's just wrong. I was predicted all A's except for 3 B's and one of those Bs was in Physics, one of my strongest subjects. Pah! I'll show him.
I took the Nazi paper? Was that the one on anti-semetism, or the essay and the Wall Street Crash contributing to Hitler's rise?
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