Daniel15's Blog » School http://dan.cx/blog Blog of Daniel, a 19-year-old web developer from Melbourne, Australia Sat, 02 Jan 2010 14:49:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Survivor: English Exam Edition http://dan.cx/blog/2007/11/survivor-english-exam-edition/ http://dan.cx/blog/2007/11/survivor-english-exam-edition/#comments Fri, 02 Nov 2007 10:05:42 +0000 Daniel15 http://www.daniel15.com/blog/2007/11/02/survivor-english-exam-edition/ Around 46,000 students did their English exam today, me being one of them. The English exam sucks; I’m so bad at writing essays :( . It was alright, but I screwed up a bit of it. Basically, we have to write four essays — Two text response essays (essays based on texts we read in class), a language analysis piece (analyse the ways language is used in some articles), and a persuasive/opinionative piece. I spent too long on the analysis and persuasive pieces (as these are what I’m good at). I completed one of the text response essays and then noticed I only had like 25 minutes or so to do the last one. So it was horribly rushed and probably quite incoherent :P

So yeah, I’m soooo glad that exam is now over; it was the one exam I was really dreading. The exams I have left are:

Monday 5th November
3:00 PM–4:15 PM — Specialist Maths Exam 1 (non-calculator)

Friday 9th November
9:00 AM–10:15 AM — Maths Methods Exam 1 (non-calculator)

Monday 12th November
11:45 AM–2:00 PM — Maths Methods Exam 2 (calculator)

Wednesday 14th November
11:45 AM–1:30 PM — Physics

Thursday 15th November
9:00 AM–10:45 AM — Chemistry (ewwww :P )

Friday 16th November
3:00 PM–5:15 PM — Specialist Maths Exam 2 (calculator)

So yeah, after that, No more school! On to University next year. I’m hoping that I get an ENTER score above 87, that way I’ll get into Computer Science at Melbourne University :)

Edit: Some people were asking about the title of this post. It was referring to my MSN Messenger display name, which I had set to “It’s Survivor: English Exam Edition. 46000 students, 4 hours, 3 essays. Who will survive?” for a while :D

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Anyways, the exams I’m having are:

Wednesday 8th November

  • 9:00am – 11:15am: English
  • 1:40pm – 2:45pm: Maths Methods (non-calculator)

Thursday 9th November

  • 11:05am – 12:40pm: Information Systems

Friday 10th November

  • 11:05am – 1:10pm: Specialist Maths (calculator)

Monday 13th November

  • 9:00am – 10:35am: Physics
  • 1:40pm – 2:45pm: Specialist Maths (non-calculator)

Tueaday 14th November

  • 9:00am – 10:35am: Chemistry
  • 11:05am – 1:10pm: Maths Methods (calculator)

The best thing is that once all the exams are over, I don’t have any more school :)

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…erm… Yeah, anyway….. For our maths exams (Specialist Maths, and Maths Methods), we have a 2-hour exam where we can use a calculator, and a 1-hour calculator-free exam.

These are the exams I did:

  • English – Bah, the English exam was stupid. We needed to write three essays in two hours! Having said that, I got a B on that exam (and I thought I was going to fail it :P )
  • Physics – Physics was alright (I quite like Physics). The exam was actually just questions that were cut and pasted from various revision books! I got an A+ on this exam.
  • Specialist Maths – This was hard, it involved maths stuff such as partial fractions, Circle theorems, and other stuff. If there’s one maths area I hate, it’s circle theorems! Having said that, I got an A+ on this exam
  • Maths Methods – This was easy! Maths Methods is incredibly easy compared to Specialist Maths. I got 97% in the calculator-active test (the highest in the class). This involved stuff like quadratics, cubics, quartics, solving equasions, etc, etc. The overall mark was an A+
  • Chemistry – This was the one exam I was dreading (I’m not really that good at chemistry). Nevertheless, I got a B on this exam (which I’m quite happy with)

Yeah… That’s all my exams…

In other news, someone recently spammed the CWH Networks forum:

It took me the whole of 2 minutes to clean all that up. Seriously, when will these spammers learn? Geez! :D

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