The History exam was really a two-pronged attack. Firstly, the content itself is not easy and while I knew about 90% of the facts, getting it all to gel was difficult, especially in the section on Indian Independence. Worse though was just the sheer amount of writing. I’m really bad at writing short answers and managed to completely fill the 16 page answer book in 2 hours. (OK, it was more like 15 pages since the front is mostly instructions and the like, but still – that’s a rate of around 8 minutes per A4 page.)
The good news is that I did complete every question – didn’t run out of time at the end although I literally had about 3 minutes to go. My handwriting of course deteriorated but hopefully still legible enough to get marks. Really no idea on how well I did overall – but I figure that with all the facts I did put it, I can’t have flopped it, even if one large mark question had me a bit confused as to what they were actually asking!
As you can imagine, I was also pretty glad for my bottle of water.
Tomorrow afternoon is English, which should be slightly easier but still a mass of writing. And poetry, which I’m not looking forward to. The second section is more creative writing though, so hopefully will be able to pick up some marks there. Hmmm… we’ll see!
On a blog-related technical note – Captchas are currently not working due to Freetype not being installed. GD, however, is installed (see the PHP into page) so we might be able to get something working eventually. Until then pre-moderation for all items will continue I’m afraid, at least until I weather this round of spam.
Get yourself a decent host then!
Oh yeah – is there anyway you could whitelist certain people? If you looked for certain name values or something (unlikely the spammer would try to ‘learn’ anything from the blog)
I guess whitelisting would be the same as just creating non-admin members who are simply allowed to log on and post. It’s an idea, but unfortunately I’d then have to do the profiles differently, and I’d still have to moderate non-admin posts = still all those spam emails!
I have emailed my hosts asking for Freetype support, and I’ll take it from there…
All it would need is to re-compile the PHP binary – if they can’t be arsed to do that, ditch em.
I can get you a year’s hosting, 120gb bandwidth/mo and 2.4gb space for around £6. After the first year, it’s $120 a year… but if you refer people, you get $97. Lemme know