Three down, three to go...
Chemistry (or Chemystry or Fuck, I don't get this): It was quite hard. I was expecting that though, of course. I think I passed everything, although Organic Chemistry is the least likely of them all because I'm seriously bad at it.
French:: The listening was a bitch and the reading was just plain stupid but the writing was okay and I got to use lots of stuff like the subjunctive tense and the conditional. So, that was all good. And the reading wasn't too bad really. Just about stupid things. Like this (gacked from Jen, with love):
"Palavas-les-Flots
Location: Quatre Canaux Bridge, Palavas-les-Flots, Montpellier (France)
Date/Time: 20 May 1981. 12.
The four occupants of a red two-door Renault 5 rushed into the police station at Montpellier to report a terrifying incident that had befallen them around midnight at Quatre Canaux Bridge, just outside the seaside resort of Palavas-les-Flots, near Montpellier.
On hearing their story, Inspector Lopez initially advised them that if they were attempting a hoax, they still had time to come clean and avoid punitive action. But they stuck to their story, and he apparently later admitted to researchers that their panic was genuine, prompting a search of the area (without result) and the recording of individual statements about the incident - which all matched.
The four [identified by first name only - unfortunately, not a great sign] claimed that they had stopped to give a mature woman in a white mackintosh and headscarf a lift at the bridge. Room was made in the back of the car, between two girls, and they set off.
Some 200 metres before Pont Vert the woman suddenly shouted out 'Mind the bend. You are risking your life!' The driver obediently slowed down and they negotiated the bend there safely. As soon they did so, they all realized that the woman in white had vanished."
Media: Surprisingly good. They squashed the papers a bit so I actually finished with about ten minutes to spare. Realised that Ms Reilly is a shit and never actually showed us a single episode of modern crime-drama. So (Lem, you'll be immensely proud) I used everything Emily has every told me about C.S.I. and pulled together a response about development of technology over time without too much drama. Also, am incredibly proud of all the stuff I managed to slip into my essays - CSI, Shortland Street, Bro'Town, Bowling For Columbine, Everybody Loves Raymond, The Simpsons, Harry Potter, about a thousand crime-drama's and many more.
So all in all, for my first exams that wasn't too ghastly, I still don't feel like these are real NCEA exams and am scared of Eleanor because she has a scary crush on Mister Kendall. Unlike Zsofi, who I can just mock about it. Eleanor really likes him.
I should probably write some essays for him to mark though. Ah well.
French:: The listening was a bitch and the reading was just plain stupid but the writing was okay and I got to use lots of stuff like the subjunctive tense and the conditional. So, that was all good. And the reading wasn't too bad really. Just about stupid things. Like this (gacked from Jen, with love):
"Palavas-les-Flots
Location: Quatre Canaux Bridge, Palavas-les-Flots, Montpellier (France)
Date/Time: 20 May 1981. 12.
The four occupants of a red two-door Renault 5 rushed into the police station at Montpellier to report a terrifying incident that had befallen them around midnight at Quatre Canaux Bridge, just outside the seaside resort of Palavas-les-Flots, near Montpellier.
On hearing their story, Inspector Lopez initially advised them that if they were attempting a hoax, they still had time to come clean and avoid punitive action. But they stuck to their story, and he apparently later admitted to researchers that their panic was genuine, prompting a search of the area (without result) and the recording of individual statements about the incident - which all matched.
The four [identified by first name only - unfortunately, not a great sign] claimed that they had stopped to give a mature woman in a white mackintosh and headscarf a lift at the bridge. Room was made in the back of the car, between two girls, and they set off.
Some 200 metres before Pont Vert the woman suddenly shouted out 'Mind the bend. You are risking your life!' The driver obediently slowed down and they negotiated the bend there safely. As soon they did so, they all realized that the woman in white had vanished."
Media: Surprisingly good. They squashed the papers a bit so I actually finished with about ten minutes to spare. Realised that Ms Reilly is a shit and never actually showed us a single episode of modern crime-drama. So (Lem, you'll be immensely proud) I used everything Emily has every told me about C.S.I. and pulled together a response about development of technology over time without too much drama. Also, am incredibly proud of all the stuff I managed to slip into my essays - CSI, Shortland Street, Bro'Town, Bowling For Columbine, Everybody Loves Raymond, The Simpsons, Harry Potter, about a thousand crime-drama's and many more.
So all in all, for my first exams that wasn't too ghastly, I still don't feel like these are real NCEA exams and am scared of Eleanor because she has a scary crush on Mister Kendall. Unlike Zsofi, who I can just mock about it. Eleanor really likes him.
I should probably write some essays for him to mark though. Ah well.