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…here cometh the Exam-O-Meter, to be worshipped as a god!

The Most Exciting and Fabulous Exam-O-Meter!

The Most Exciting and Fabulous Exam-O-Meter!

My exams clashed this morning, so by choice I sat History first, although I was placed amongst the Maths students for some reason so it was ‘Dominic, you’re psychologically alone ‘ time from the start. The first question of History seemed like a gift, since it only covered 1945-1949, though maybe I should have more more ‘critical use of sources’. The second question seemed fine to me too, though the reactions I got afterwards suggest it could be seen as nasty for asking about the role of personality and individual decisions on behalf of the leaders of the superpowers. Like I said, seemed fine to me!

Core 4, which followed almost immediately, was hard. A combination of a tricky paper where I couldn’t even attempt all of the questions – in common with most people – and me being tired and slow after almost 2 hours of History writing. There was also a worrying lack of ‘show that’ questions! Nevertheless, overall I think it’ll get me through: I may well not get an A on that paper specifically, but I can afford that. I also managed to end well by cracking one of the questions literally as time ran out – and I’m now hoping my scribbles will be legible enough to get the marks!

Hmm. Baring disaster, that was my last Maths exam – or really anything – for ever. Although forever is a very long time, who knows what might happen…

…it’s the Exam-O-Meter of course!

The Most Awesome and Exceptional Exam-O-Meter!

The Most Awesome and Exceptional Exam-O-Meter!

Physics Unit 5 was almost hysterically bad. The first question didn’t appear to bear much relation to the syllabus, and I really could have done with more Maths throughout. More Maths, fewer bicycle wheels please. Unit 4 was better, and the first question even consisted of 4 ‘filling in the blanks’ of word equations, which I really could have done with in the previous exam :S but since I haven’t been able to devote much time to Physics this year it wasn’t as good as it might have been. I’m not sure I’ll do any better than last time, but that was a C, so hey.

(Important reminder: Physics doesn’t affect my university place )

And Maths Statistics 1 was a piece of cake, really. They had the audacity to ask us about mean, median, mode and interquartile ranges in the lone nasty question – stuff you know fine at GCSE and then quickly lose practice with – but hey, I don’t need full marks here. I made a few stupid mistakes elsewhere, but happily corrected them before the end. My only worry is if I lose marks for not showing my method, but hopefully I won’t.

Oh, and an early birthday card from Brent Council arrived today

In the grand tradition of expensive graphics and flashy features on this blog, I proudly present to you the inaugural usage of:

The Most Brilliant and Fantastic Exam-O-Meter!

The Most Brilliant and Fantastic Exam-O-Meter!

Question a) was more fun than question b), since I slipped the word ‘metaphysical’ in quite early on. Result!

As promised:

(Don’t forget to check out the leaving photos and leave any comments here!)

Tomorrow, Friday 8th June, is my last day at school.

Sure, I’ve got exams from 11st June to the 21st June afterwards, but tomorrow is my last day of registrations, timetables, lessons and teachers after 7 years in the same building. I don’t think I need to write anything which explains that that’s a little weird. Though it does creep up on you y’know – one day you’re there and the next you’re not.

I’ll try and take some photos, even though I’m normally quite bad at remembering to do that

Wow… even the category ‘School Life’ will have to change Oh, and did I mention I’m turning 18 on 19th June? My apprehension about this event has been softened a bit by the prospect of getting a laptop as a present though, hehe!

Ms Taylor once predicted that after I leave, this blog will suddenly become ‘uncensored’ with all sorts of interesting tales about the school. Which is probably untrue, though I’ll try and do something. Onwards into the future then…