End of Year Exams!

[Domfunkle]

Well. I just finished my first exam out of 7 on Friday the 28th. Myself and another 46,000 Victorian year 12 student sat the English exam at exatcly 9am and finished at 12:15pm and had to write a gruelling four essays. Two essays on two texts (books or films), and another two on an issue (articles 'n' thing). I did a practice english exam about 5 weeks ago, but didn't finish in the designated time so I only scored 65% which is a pretty sucky effort for me. Then again..it was a practice and no one really took it seriously. But today however, it was the real deal! Sitting at the same desk for 3 hours straight writing nothing put pure crap on some dude whom you know nothing about (I wrote on King Oedipus, and The Wife of Martin Guerre). Strangely enough I was sitting in a very significant seat number: Seat no. 66, row 6. NUMBER OF THE DEVIL, DUDE! 666! I had the power of Satan himself on my side, however I don't think he helped me much today due to my lack of baby animal slaughter with a swastika-knife (see Sin City). I did however manage to finish the exam with 10 minutes to spare, with a cramped right hand covered in smudged blue ink from the constant writing..

English is my most hated subject...so I'm glad that's over and done with! Now I can forget all about persuasive techniques, Oedipus, 16th Century French Patriarchal Society and the rest of that useless crap I had to endure during the past 6 years of my life...

I got 6 more exams to do in the enxt two weeks before I am completely free of Secondary Schoolin'. I got the first section of the Further Mathematics exam on Monday, then the second section on Wednesday. After that I have the first section of the Mathematical Methods exam on Friday, then the second section on the following Monday. After THAT I have the Information Processing and Management exam on the following Wednesday, and then the final Information Systems exam on Friday 11th Nov. Then I shall P-A-R-T-Why? Because I gotta!

I'll be keeping you guys posted on how the exams are coming along..and then on the 12th of December I shall post up my ENTER score (Tertiary Entrance Score, for short), which is standardised among every yr 12 student in the state of Victoria with the highest value being 99.95 (don't ask why...). I need a minimum of 72.65 to get into the University course I wanna do next year, but I am aiming for something over 80 to secure myself a position..

So yeah!

Exams for the next 2 weeks...

hope I get seat 666 again ;)

[AfroJoe]

You finish proper exams before Christmas? Crazy stuff.

Exams here are always May/June, with prelims in about January, I think.

I was so happy when I finished English, as well. The subject I spent the most time in, and disliked the majority of the time. It's not that I wasn't good at it, it was just that it was so damn boring sometimes. A lot of subjects were like that, though, heh.

[Domfunkle]

You finish proper exams before Christmas? Crazy stuff.

Exams here are always May/June, with prelims in about January, I think.

Yeah, that's just the Northern and Southern Hemisphere's adjusting so that the first school semester begins immediately after summer. So that means for you the last semester finishes before summer 'round May/June, whereas in the Southern Hemisphere Summer is during Dec-Feb so we finish before December.. and get the Christmas Holidays as the Summer Holidays...Santa in a swim-suit...wierd stuff..

[AxlRoseMKII]

well i'd just like to say good luck, and you'll have a noce long holiday with your 360 for company...

like i said good luck

[Hanley]

I've got two exams in January and then 3/4 in June. English, German (yay!), IT. :(

[Domfunkle]

Well I just got back from my second exam: Further Mathematics :Exam 1

It was ALL 40 multiple choice questions! And has to be THE easiest exam I have ever done! Further Maths is basically year 9 maths...but done in year 12. It's just too easy to be a senior subject it's rediculous! It consists of the Core study: Statistics (mean, median, scatterplots, bell-charts etc.) and 3 other Modules...this year we did: Graphs and Relations (Linear graphs (y=mx+c) in yr 12....nuff said), Business Related Maths (Simple/Compound Interest, loan repayments..), and Geometry/Trigonometry (Sine, Cosine, Tangent, Pythagoras' theorem, all year 9 crap).

Seriously...if the second exam on Wednesday is as easy as today's mulitple choice, then...just...jesus christ... The Further Mathematics: Exam 2 on Wednesday is all short-answer and analysis questions...so you're given a problem and you have to work it out using formulae and show how you did it...

..And as we say..."piece o' piss!"


Oh and by the by...I finished this exam in 20 minutes out of the maximum 1.5 hours. No one's allowed to leave the examination room though untill after 30 minutes...so I had to sit there twiddling my thumbs for 10 minutes...and sit outside for another 20 minutes while my friend finished his so that I could get my jacket out of his locker...

[CptHook]

Lukcy we have exams in California liek that every 20 weeks. For all our subjects. Blows liek crazy, not sure what the dirrect realtions between the school systems over thdre and here?

[Pain Killer]

I av a few 5 exams at the end of this month. 3 science, 1 maths and 1 ict.
Then a few in january and then more in like april/may.
Not looking forward to the time ahead.

[AfroJoe]

Oh and by the by...I finished this exam in 20 minutes out of the maximum 1.5 hours. No one's allowed to leave the examination room though untill after 30 minutes...so I had to sit there twiddling my thumbs for 10 minutes...and sit outside for another 20 minutes while my friend finished his so that I could get my jacket out of his locker...

Haha, you think that's bad, here you're not allowed to leave until the time expires. Even if everyone has been sitting there for half an hour, they're not allowed to let people out.

Oh, and you get multiple choice Maths exams? Wow. Maths itself is easy, but that sounds ridiculous.

[Domfunkle]

Oy Gevalt! What a Drama today!

I had me second and final Further Maths exam today, which started at 11:45am and finished at 1:30pm..and guess what! The stupid-assed-retarded bus never showed up to take me to school to do the exam..naturally I'm waiting at the busstop for well over an hour and no bus turns up! Luckily I had my mobile phone on me, so I called up the school and asked them to tell the examiners that I was going to be a bit late for the exam. It is at this point that I am freaking out and cursing the name of the bus company seeing as how if you don't turn up for an exam, you get a big fat 0 for it (unless you're in hospital, or you get a special pardon from like...the Prime Minister or something). A bus finally came by which took me to the nearest shopping center (mall) which is a 10 minute walk from school...I got to the shopping center at 11:40 and ran like the ****ing wind to try to get to the exam on time! I got to school in 5 minutes, just as everyone started seating themselves at their desks and reading the examination paper. The examiners were telling me **** like: "Just calm down. Would you like a drink of water (It was frickin' 33 degrees today and I was running!)?", and one teacher said to me "Oh! I saw you waiting at the bus stop.." to which I was saying in my head "WELL IF YOU ****ING SAW ME 15 MINUTES BEFORE THE ****ING EXAM STARTED, THEN WHY DIDN'T YOU OFFER ME A ****ING RIDE!?"

But I digress..

I got into the exam sorta on time and was able to read a couple of the questions before we started writing at 12:00pm. The exam was fairly easy, not as easy as the multiple-choice, but still a peice o' piss! It took me the whole 1.5 hours to finish the dang thing because it just dragged on and on and on and on and on... ...and on and on! There were some questions I had to go back and do again as I just realised a tiny little detail that would've cost me the whole question and make my adjustments etc.

Overall it was pretty easy, second easiest exam I've done to date, with the first Further Math exam in the lead. Got my first Math Methods exam on Friday. That should be a bit of a doozy seeing as how the teacher is a bit of a ----...a female ---- that is...

[AfroJoe]

Heh, unlucky stuff with the buses.

I lived within a 5 minute walk of my school, so that never happened to me.

And I still can't get over the fact that you get multiple choice in a Maths exam... :D

[Domfunkle]

Seriously...Either I've gotten REALLY smart or the examiners have gotten REALLY stupid.

I just got back from the Mathematical Methods: Exam 1 today and let me tell you...no seriously, let me...It was a whooole lot easier than i expected. I was doing a couple of past exam papers from last year as well as some commercial practice exams and I was completely stumped on some of those danged integration questions (opposite of finding the derivitive of an equation)..The past and practice exams were like trying to crack the human genome compared to the exam I just did, bearing in mind the first Math Further exam i did on Monday was like finding a hooker in the red-light-district in Amsterdam...But this exam was not too bad..I was only stumped on one or two questions involving finding the area under a curve (which I suck at), so I just showed the first to steps of working out, then just jumped to the answer I got automatically on the calculator, that should at least rack me up a couple of marks rather than getting none by leaving it blank, or not working it out correctly and getting the wrong answer...You gotta know how to leech as many marks as you can out of an exam paper, even if the final answer is wrong, you still get marked on your working-out (even if you have wrong, but similar, values in your formulas) etc. And if you don't know how to work out the rest of an equation, but you know what the final answer is, just write the first part of the working-out, skip the rest and write the answer...you should get at least 1 mark for the answer, and 1 mark for the working out (if not maybe 2). But one thing I HATE about the marking, is that if you don't put units after the answer (eg. m, mm, cm, L, mL) you don't get a mark..same as if the question tells you to given your answer to 3 decimal places (0.000) and the answer is a whole number, you still have to write it to 3 decimal places (ie. 4 gives nothing, 4.000 gives full marks)..

Oy...at least I get the weekend to go over some integration and play some MGS2: Substance..just like i did yesterday, but without the integration...

[WACCOE]

I get stood down on the 6th of December, for my Mocks :s

Really worried about them becuase I think im going to do rubbish, and I can't do revising, it just doesn't help me, one bit.

:s

[Domfunkle]

Oy-gevoygen!

How frickin' hard was that frickin' Methods exam?! Well let me tell you: It was ****ing HARD! Some of those questions were absolutely rediculous and it would take like 5 minutes to write out some equation you had to make which was like 100cos(pi(x-400)/600)+50 and then differentiate and integrate that...then find out values of K where y = 20 and then minus the x values, then create an equation to show how much it would cost to make a bridge of that length with repect to K, x, and C and all sorts of rediculous crap that they expect us to do. As the French say: "C'est Impossible!" I felt relieved though, because no one in the room left early, meaning no one finished early or found it to be easy. When everyone stood to leave the room I looked around to see the reactions on people's faces. Everyone looked as though they were about to throw up... This exam was hated by all! This is a good thing because the results are standardised, meaning that if the average was 40% and I got like 60%, that's like an A+ despite the fact that i screwed it up too...the important thing is: I didn't screw up as much as everyone else..

I'm just glad that bloody Methods is all over and done with...now I can get rid of all this paper on my floor. There must a whole tree's worth of paper lying around here..all from Math Methods. But now I'm cramming for the IPM exam which as it turns out, is TOMORROW! I though it was on Wednesday, but boy was I wrong...its actually on the Tuesday, which is tomorrow...or technically today seeing as I'm typing this at 12:25am. Just as well the exam's in the afternoon, which means I have all morning and lunch to go over my notes again and test myself while I wait to sit the exam...This exam, and the IS one on friday are doozies. They are IT subjects, but they are written exams (ie. no computers involved), so there's like 20 mulitple-choice questions, which are generally REALLY easy, then there's the hard shizen, the short-answer questions...lots of Case studies, summaries, descriptions and definitions of Strategic-Planning-by-Senior-Management to be written...my hand is going to end up being as blue as it was from the English exam...all covered in smudged ink from the over-writing...

Well...wish me luck!

[WACCOE]

Good luck! :D

Just think yourself lucky your not left-handed, like me! Smugde everywhere!!! All over Exam papers :D

[Domfunkle]

My problem is that my handwriting is very small...so I smudge all the writing on the line above..but the smudged ink never goes on the paper...just all over my hand!

[Domfunkle]

Righty-O!

Just got back from my 6th and 2nd-last exam: IPM (Information Processing and Management). Due the the drama I had with the bus company last Wednesday for one of the Further Maths exams, I left for school 3 hours before the exam was due to start. I got to school at 12:00pm and the exam was going to start at 3:00pm and finish at 5:15pm. So I was sitting in an empty room going over some summary notes I got from the teacher while listening to Pink Floyd and the Chili Peppers on my iPod. Seeing as how IPM is only one class of about 25 students, the Exam room was relatively empty considering the odd 100 people who did the Methods and English exams. This exam was almost as easy as the Further Math exam in that I could whiz straight through it and leave early. One thing I really like about the IT exams is that there are a LOT of questions where you have to give a possible solution and then justify it. This pretty much means that you can pretty much put any reasonable solution down so long as you can give reasons why you chose it, as long as you can justify it...and that's what I did..I think all my answers were fairly reasonable and I did whiz straight through it seeing as how about a quater of it had to do with Networking and I'm a LAN-KING! I know more about LANs than is required by the subject...I even corrected the teacher at one point when he said that wireless networking was slower than coaxial cabling, to which I clearly stated "Ahem..Coaxial cabling has a maximum speed of 10mbps, whereas even one of the slowest wireless 802.11b has a max speed of 11mpbs, and there are even faster wireless systems around such as 802.11/a/g/n which can go in excess of 200mbps!"...Damn I'm good

but...i digress

The exam was fairly straightforward and I think I did fairly well in comparison to some others who were studying straight since 8am writing pages of notes whereas I was only reading a pre-prepared summary while listening to music...

Anywho...I got my FINAL exam on Friday, after that I shal lie in bed the next morning thinking "hehe...I don't have to get up for no-one!", that will be untill I have to go to work at 11..but on sunday I'll be doing just that...but it wont set in untill Monday where I'll be waking up at 3 in the afternoon and eat some pop-tarts for Lunner (Lunch-Dinner) and play xbox 'till I need to go to work Tueday night.

Well...wish me luck for my final exam on Friday! Though IPM and IS are pretty similar subjects, so it would be just like doing today's exam again...

oh well

Peace! We Out!

[WACCOE]

Good luck dude! :D

Im sure you're having a whale of a time at the moment with all these exams :D

All of your Exams seem pretty hard :unsure:... lol.

Good luck anyways :D

[Domfunkle]

I'm a Free Man!!

Just got back from my Information Systems exam...wasn't too hard actually, about as easy as the IPM exam only it was MUCH longer! There were some tricky questions..there was one question from a Case Study where you're given about a page of a pseudocode algorithm which you have to read and understand exactly what it does, then you have to indicate syntax errors and explain what how to fix it. I could only see one, so i guessed the other one, which I just worked out now that it wasn't an error...oh well...only 2 marks...out of 75! But yes...wasn't too bad of an exam. I managed to finish 30 minutes early so I walked to the shoppingcentre (which I mentioned earlier) and bought some Spring Rolls from the food court to celebrate my freedom..

So that's it! No more exams...no more school...no more obligations to do homework when I get home (not that I did it anyway, but now I don't have to feel guilty for not doing it)..

My brother and sister are taking me out for dinner and drinks later on tonight to celebrate my finishing of school...the next big celebration would be my acceptance into Uni, and then the one after that would be getting my car ;)

So that's it! And so closes the chapter of Domfunkle's life at school!

[WACCOE]

Congratulations Dom!

Have a good night then ;)

Best of luck in the future!

[Domfunkle]

YAY! I got my final results!

I recieved my results first through a text message on my mobile phone, then I checked them on the internet just to make sure. The results came in at 7am on Dec 12th (roughly 30 minutes ago). I was planning on sleeping in today and checking my results when I woke up at 1-2pm, but for some ungodly reason my body clock decided to wake me at 6am instead...So here I am lying in bed waiting for my phone to ring and give me my results. I got my Text message at 6:50am, which is earlier (duh!) which said that my ENTER score, which is the score required to get into specific courses in university, was:

84.65

Which means that I am one of the top 15.35% scoring students in the state! I needed to score a minimum of 72.55 to get into my course for next year, but I wanted to get over 80 as a personal goal...AND I DID!! I'm very happy right now! :D :D :D

One thing that I'm pissed off about though is the fact that most of my subjects had to be marked down because they are deemed "too easy" compared with other subjects...this annoying process is called "scaling", which I think I mentioned before...

But anyway...here is a good example of scaling in work: MY RESULTS!

EN01 - English
GA 1: A
GA 2: A
GA 3: B
Study Score: 33, scaled to 31.36

IT02 - Information Processing & Management
GA 1: A+
GA 2: A+
GA 3: A+
Study Score: 42, scaled to 39.22

IT03 - Information Systems
GA 1: A
GA 2: A
GA 3: A
Study Score: 37, scaled to 34.48

MA07 - Further Mathematics
GA 1: A+
GA 2: A
GA 3: A
Study Score: 39, scaled to 36.58

MA08 - Mathematical Methods
GA 1: A
GA 2: B
GA 3: B+
Study Score: 33, scaled to 39.47

As you can see there are two Study Scores: 1 is what I REALLY got, and the second is the scaled score which is what the VCAA thinks I should've gotten...********s*
A study score is basically a raw score for the subject, out of 50, based on your exam results and basic assesments that were made during the year.

The letter grades are what I got for each section for the exam. Check out Information Processing & Management: A+, A+, A+ !!! But then look at my study score...what the ****?!

So yes...when it gets later on into the day I'll be making some phone calls to various relatives: brother, sister etc. as well as my Dad, whom I will be discussing about his contribution towards my custom PC, which was promised if I get good results...which I did!

Anyway...now that I've got my results, Secondary School no longer has to take a back seat, it can get out of the car while it's still moving, then get run over by a passing truck... :brow

[AfroJoe]

Well done, matey.

Wish I could have pretty much got A's across the board in my exams. :D

[JJBDude]

Sorry to be lazy but I can't be bothered to read all of what has been said as a lot has been said lol. So forgive me. However I wish you all the best of luck if you are having end of year exams, I just have to do Coursework all year throughout my lessons and wait untill May - July when the exams start happening.....

[Domfunkle]

You obviously havent been reading...because I already DID finish my exams, and I just posted my results...

[JJBDude]

Yeah I know I did say I couldn't be bothered to read it as there was too much to read. Anyway I just scrolled up and saw your scores and they were great! I'd love to get A's and B's but I wont. :(