Exams! (just needed to sort my head out a bit, ignore this if you don't wanna be bored stiff)
1 down, 3 to go! Or actually 4 but the Kapa Haka exam doesn't really count since it's just a workshop.
So today was biology, 2 hours and 2 papers. The genetics went fine, except for when I screwed up the punnett square for these stupid long haired, 6-toed cats. Now the ecology I'm a bit uncertain about... I mean, we did ecology in 1st term, so that must've been like Febuary..
Tomorrow is English in the morning and French in the afternoon. For English we have to write 4 essays in 3 hours. Yeah right. I think I'll do the visual text first (About a Boy), then short stories (4 stories by Owen Marshall, NZ writer) or unfamiliar text, depending on whether the unfamiliar text looks difficult or not. Then last, if by some miracle I didn't spend more than 2 hrs & 15mins on the previous essays, I'll do the Shakespearian drama (Othello) which is the hardest.
In French there's reading, listening and writing. Reading and listening should be alright, but I'm worried about the writing. In Norway, writing used to be the easiest, but that's because we got to use dictionaries and we had 5 hours instead of 1. I might just not do it at all cause I'd rather have Not Attempted, than Not Acheived...
Then Friday is maths. 4 papers in 2 hours. Differentiation and intergration should be fine cause that's the last thing we did. The other 3 papers are on stuff we went through in term 1. Only thing is, I didn't transfer from travel & tourism until term 2. I think I'm alright though. Graphs are easy, so that's alright. Algebra. I've done it in Norway, but it's my worst part of maths. Then there's co-ordinate geomerty which I'd never done before, and I didn't realise that we were being assessed on it until today. Luckily, I've the most awesome maths teacher ever, and she taught me the entire chapter after school today in maths clinic. She really saved my arse.
And I'm on my period, which of course makes everything so much better.
So today was biology, 2 hours and 2 papers. The genetics went fine, except for when I screwed up the punnett square for these stupid long haired, 6-toed cats. Now the ecology I'm a bit uncertain about... I mean, we did ecology in 1st term, so that must've been like Febuary..
Tomorrow is English in the morning and French in the afternoon. For English we have to write 4 essays in 3 hours. Yeah right. I think I'll do the visual text first (About a Boy), then short stories (4 stories by Owen Marshall, NZ writer) or unfamiliar text, depending on whether the unfamiliar text looks difficult or not. Then last, if by some miracle I didn't spend more than 2 hrs & 15mins on the previous essays, I'll do the Shakespearian drama (Othello) which is the hardest.
In French there's reading, listening and writing. Reading and listening should be alright, but I'm worried about the writing. In Norway, writing used to be the easiest, but that's because we got to use dictionaries and we had 5 hours instead of 1. I might just not do it at all cause I'd rather have Not Attempted, than Not Acheived...
Then Friday is maths. 4 papers in 2 hours. Differentiation and intergration should be fine cause that's the last thing we did. The other 3 papers are on stuff we went through in term 1. Only thing is, I didn't transfer from travel & tourism until term 2. I think I'm alright though. Graphs are easy, so that's alright. Algebra. I've done it in Norway, but it's my worst part of maths. Then there's co-ordinate geomerty which I'd never done before, and I didn't realise that we were being assessed on it until today. Luckily, I've the most awesome maths teacher ever, and she taught me the entire chapter after school today in maths clinic. She really saved my arse.
And I'm on my period, which of course makes everything so much better.