Hell on paper

Oh the slightly precedented relief, the exams are not quite over. Whilst everyone else finished theirs with Physics today, Jingo and I both have the second Business Studies paper to complete next Thursday. Despite being told to cram like hell for five days before by our manic 20 year old teacher, I will certainly be taking it easy this weekend and next week, even going to see live stand up the night before. Blimey, he will not be impressed by that.

So back to the past; here's a run down of all of the exams thus far:

Citizenship
I checked about four times to make sure I hadn't been given the easier 'foundation paper'. 'Foundation' of course being the euphemism for "Oh my God you retard! Ha, the best grade you can get with this is a C!"

English Literature
Really not sure how well I've done on this one. The Carol Ann Duffy and Robert Browning poems were OK but I think I might have screwed up the Of Mice and Men essay a bit. Apparently if you got an A* on the coursework you only needed 70% on the exam for an A* overall. We'll have to wait and see what August brings.

ICT
By far one of the funniest and easiest exams completed. One of the questions was about supermarket barcoding relating to RFID tags that might combine to form an evil network. Beware the RFIDs. Apparently the film is coming out soon.

Geography
The first paper was alright, but the second was a bit more tricky to master. Some of the questions were a bit vague and I'm not sure I've pushed all the right buttons. Full marks in coursework mean that I'm already set up for good things...

English Language
I decided to take the plunge and do a Describe question for the first time ever, thinking I could at least manage to describe my own house. Lots of imagery relating to smell and touch should guide me to a decent grade - I hope. The comprehension was reasonable but my persuasive argument for a teenage magazine (never read one in my life - I prefer 'adult' titles :-) was probably a bit weak.

Biology
One of the best exams on the calendar. The test was quite hard but I felt I knew almost everything and identified with a smirk which questions the rest of the field would stumble on. I am being optimistic about this one.

Chemistry
Strewth! What a little piece of shit. That was quite difficult but 29/30 on coursework should help me a bit. It annoyed me that there were no titration calculations or questions involving 2,3,carboxyethyl-4-octanoic acids. Damn.

Business Studies
I woke up on Thursday morning thinking: "Wouldn't it be nice if we got a case study about a camera shop (since I am quite big on photography - purchasing a D-SLR in the next few days :-) so I can cram my answers with tons on contextual terminology. And that's exactly what I did. God bless Dave the redundant photographer and a desire to be his own boss.

Additional Maths
Thursday was one of only two days when we had two exams on the same day. It was worse for Nick though, he had History followed by Business Studies followed by Additional Maths. The first two involve writing and writing and writing, reams and reams of crap, altogether directly contributing to deforestation. Fortunately (ha!) I only had the two in the afternoon. And bloody hell I'm annoyed I did Maths a year early. That was pure, distilled, concentrated and refined whoop ass grade hell on paper. For two hours I sat there thinking: "Fuck! How the hell to I do this? Differentiate, integrate, complete the square for x?" I will personally eat all my hats if I pass that.

Physics
Today's exam was a mixture of easy and fairly tricky questions, but I think I knew most of the stuff. Similar feeling as Biology: beware the uneven surface other candidates.

So all in all, I think I did OK all in all. Please inform me on the comments if my persistent :-)ing at the end of brackets titrates, sorry, irates you.