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Woo yay houpla – got an A in English. 90/90. Full marks.

Which means I’ll never have to look at Wise Children again!

Just to complete today’s exam story – Physics went badly! I’m confident I’ll have to retake this now in June which I did not want to do, but hey, at least you can retake. And the worst part is that there were two really easy marks which I found out about just minutes afterwards. Oh well, today was just not my day for Physics. I left out too many questions to be able to do well. But although I thought it went really badly, I don’t think I’ll fail, and I’m not actually ‘upset’ upset (like upset) because it’s only an exam. I’m alive!

Now, to think of something completely different to take my mind of it… [flicks to BBC News]… ooh, nothing much. Small brothels. More paedophiles. A talking parrot. Great.

Did English exam this morning. As usual, I’m pretty bad about judging how an exam went… not a disaster, not the best essay I’ve ever written. I’m not sure – I made a fair amount of points, tried to relate them to the question, shoved in some quotes – we’ll have to see!

Anyway, Physics is at 1.30. It’s a bit more cut-throat than English, if you don’t know what to do you could just freeze. Hopefully that won’t happen

How valuable is last-minute revision anyway? I’m never sure. Apparently boys cram more than girls. Is it true? No idea. But certainly my blogging style changes when I’m nervous, all these rhetorical questions.

Signing off from the rather ugly IBM computer in the 6th Form area of the library…

On Friday I was probably the most relaxed I will ever be for an examination in my life – AS ICT. I blogged about the circumstances here but it’s basically my exam ‘on the side’ – I’ve never been to any of the lessons but I have read the book. Anyway, I think the exam (OCR ICT – 2512) went well, especially the question ‘Desribe, with examples, the differences between hardware and software’

This weekend I should revise for English and Physics. And I will, I promise! Hence the shortened blog. Respective happy birthdays to Alex Trafford and Nic Parkes though.

It turned out to be a bit of a blessing in disguise, having an English revision session today. (And yes, it was helpful after the break!) It has gotten me back into the working groove ready for school tomorrow and motivated me to finally write that English essay tonight I’ve been threatening to do for a while. (On Peregrine from Wise Children, in case you were interested.)

So yes, I’m busy again! Hence the Christmas decorations coming down and being replaced with a nice little collection of textbooks, which seemed quite befitting. It doesn’t stop be listening to some Christmas music for the last time tonight though – all together now: “Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree…”

Oh, I just noticed my Google Ads have all become Doctor Who themed. At the moment you’re offered the chance to ‘Meet Nicola Bryant’ – interesting…!