2 posts tagged “exams”
Free at last. Thank God Almighty, we are free at last.
Well, that is barring any exam marking accidents. I've finished my exams for this year. I won't know how I did until the 1st of December when the results are released.
So, now I can dedicate my time to work and shopping and Christmas preparations. I'm actually looking forward to Christmas this year. Thanks to some accidental saving (my shopping buddy wasn't available) and a new job, I have plenty of cash to buy people what I really think they'd fancy so it should be fun. I've ordered Mum 3 latin books already and I have plans on going shopping next week with my sister for some stuff. I have 3 sisters, 3 brothers-in-law, 14 nieces and nephews, plus friends and ma 'n pa to buy for. And that's only if I ignore my brother and sister-in-law and 2 sons in the UK.
Next week Dad is going into hospital, for hip replacement surgery. He went in today to pick out his hip. Who knew you got to pick? I told him to go hot pink so he could explore his feminine side without anyone ever having to know. I think someone said something about a glow in the dark hip.. but that would be a little too freaky.
Anyway. Apparently, you get to pick whether it's plastic and metal or all metal or whatever. I think he's going with the plastic and metal one so he doesn't set off EVERY metal detector when he travels.. only some of them.
Now, don't be too shocked but I heard Rammstein's Du Hast for the first time last week. I know! It's been around for years, I don't know where I was to have missed it. I really liked it. It was really angry, yet no screaming, which I'm not a fan of. And at the Comp. Graphics & Animation movie show a lot of people had picked Prodigy songs to go with their movies and I liked them too. I think I must be in an angry music mood.. so if anyone else has some recommendations, I'm all ears. ;)
Free at last... It's good to be back on the radar.. :D
Exams are the strangest things. I don't really want to get into the validity of them in the real world or the fact that they're worth 70% of my overall marks for every computing unit, which means that no matter how wonderfully I do in my assignments, if I flunk the exam I get a 50-60. Take for example my Artificial Intelligence exam. I had 28/30 for my assignments. I finished my exam, left the big gym room where they hold the exams thinking "YES!!", I saw my lecturer on the way out.. gave him a big smile and a wave and said "Yep! I nailed that!".. got my exam results back and thought "HOLY COW!! What exam did I take???" .. they told release the exam mark but I got a 59 for my overall mark. So, one must be good at exams in computing.
Our exams are held in the Human Movement gym. It's a large room with grey brick walls. A cargo net hanging from one wall and another wall of windows that are raised up to sit just under the ceiling, leaving you only able to see the sky and the top of a few trees outside. The normal wood floor is covered with sheets of old grey carpet, that are taped together with masking tape. Long rows of small plain school desks and grey plastic school chairs fill the room with the only colour being the occasional orange plastic chair, instead of a grey one.
The evigilators always make me nervous. They wander the lines of desks like Tormentors from Harry Potter. You look up from your paper, casually look across at your classmate in the next row and suddenly one of them appears at your side. You didn't hear them coming.. they don't walk, they float. Last year I spent a while naming them different kinds of animals during one of my numerous writer's cramp breaks. This year my mind drifted from the evigilators to outside.
The sun was shining today, there was a breeze softly blowing the tops of the eucalyptus trees and a few clouds drifting by. They were the sort of clouds that make the best shapes and forms when you're sitting in the shade on a warm summer day, watching the world go by. We heard planes overhead and then through the windows we saw 4 red planes flying in formation. They did a few fly overs and moved off.. the noise faded to volume you wouldn't notice unless you were trying. My eyes drifted back to my grey prison. Suddenly the poem 'The Lady of Shalott' by Tennyson sprang to mind.
Tennyson takes you on a journey through the countryside of Camelot. Following the river, past fields of barley and rye and then drags you into a dark grey place.
It's a sad poem if you read it all. But first 2 verses represent my exam experience today.
Of course, maybe I should have paid more attention to my exam lol.
