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Remember my L.C... Others memories?
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05-06-2009 10:37pm#1
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Year: 2007
Paper you dreaded: Irish
Highest mark: A1 - a few
Lowest Mark: B2 - Irish
Memories of it: Studying ten hours a day towards the end. And going home and tidying my room when the exams were over because I didn't know what to do if there was nothing to study
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I actually remember surprisingly little about it ... for the most part I had gotten to the stage of being too bored with the whole three ring circus to stress unduly about it any more.
The exception being Irish 1 (Irish being my bête noire at the best of times). Two memories stick out:
- reading the paper and encountering some very awkward stuff, and muttering "f___ing p____s" under my breath (with reference to the examiners) only to glance up and realise the superintendent was standing beside me, and was stuffing his knuckles in his mouth trying not to laugh! He told me after the exam that he was an Irish teacher himself, and could understand my reaction.
- going out at lunchtime and buying my first packet of 10 cigarettes, and smoking most of them before the afternoon session. The only time my normal mid-day relaxation technique failed me! :pac:
Apart from that ...
... being slightly frustrated that I had an exam on the last day, and most of the gang would be celebrating well before me.
... lying out on the grass with the sun on our backs, and teasing the girls to get their tops off as well (mixed school). A few of them getting fed up with us and deciding to go for it, albeit lying face (ahem!) down on the grass. Still saw more of some of them than I had previously though! \o/
... a local dog, who spent a lot of his time around the school and had attached himself to me as most animals do, deciding to wander into the exam hall and fall asleep at my feet. The superintendent came down to shoo him out, but obviously decided that as he was quiet it would cause more commotion to get rid of him than leave him. He didn't move a muscle until about 2 minutes before the end, when he sat up and gave a huge yawn as much as to say "Ok, enough! Let's get out of here!" ... set everyone off giggling. :pac:
... lots of celebrating and silly pranks, some of it quite daft tbh, but harmless at the same time. My mother getting up on Saturday morning to find every bed, sofa and even floorspace in the house occupied by 17 year old males (un)dressed for the heat. Heard her telling my father later that day that he really needed to get back training and get fit! I don't think he was impressed ... >_>0 -
Year
2008
Paper(s) you dreaded
French. I was bordering failing written and tape throughout 6th year cause I found it way harder than the oral, which for some reason I always did fairly ok in.
Highest mark
Music (A1)
Lowest Mark
French (C3)
Memories of it
- The feeling of joy seeing Derek Mahon's name on the list of poets.
- Coming out of a Maths exam happy for the first time in 5 years.
- Writing so much and so fast in Geography and History my hand started twitching.
- Leaving my Irish exam knowing after 14 years I'll never have to learn the language ever again.
- Leaving myself 70 minutes between French and History to cram in 5-6 essays. (Not to be recommended!)
- The anger of realising I got 0/30 for misreading a question in Geo,
- The shock of finding out I actually failed my french tape, scrapped 42% in my written, yet somehow got 82% in my oral.
- The face for getting 50/50 in my poetry, only to turn to 
for getting 25/60 in Othello.
- But easily the best feeling of all, knowing I scrapped a place in my course by 5 points.
But while I think of it, the one memory that stands out most of all was the hours leading up to the music exam. We all decided to meet up in the morning to go over stuff, but we ended up just lying around in the grass for a good 3 hours talking about old times. None of us even cared too much about cramming or getting worried over it, we just had some laugh going nuts outside. Good times.0 -
Year ... 2007
Paper(s) you dreaded ... History
Highest mark ... Music (A1)
Lowest Mark .... Economics (D2)
Memories of it.... Opening my History paper and acing the mother fcuker!!!!
Getting pissed the night before my German exam (not recommended) and still managing to get a B3 in it. 0 -
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Year ... 2008, oh so long ago!
Paper(s) you dreaded ... Hm... I wasn't looking forward to English 2 at any rate, and by the time Applied Maths came along I was well fed up with doing exams (hilariously the same thing happened to me yesterday in my Mechanics exam). Art History was a well dodge one as well.
Highest mark ... Hm. Okay, well, I got 6 A1s, and didn't view my scripts, but I'd guess that I did the best in either Maths or Physics. I shall never know.
Lowest Mark .... In a single paper, I'd say it was Art History, bit of a sham, but I think overall it was probably French (A2).
Memories of it....
-- Left Irish 1 an hour early and went and sat in the sun eating icecream with the rest of the girls... then was too blind and dizzy to actually see anything in the aural afterwards!
-- Also in Irish 1, it was so hot they opened all the doors in the sports centre, so I spent a good 10 minutes staring outside watching a cat, instead of... doing the exam. That said I left that exam absolutely pumped, because I wrote an EPIC debate about The Media.
-- Finishing Music to the cheers of everyone in the class but me, who had applied maths the next day. And when Seachanges came on in the tape, the invigilator almost fell out of her chair.
-- Walking out of my final exam, about a week after most people were off, for it to start raining... (And interestingly enough the same thing has happened for college exams now... damn j00 rain!)
-- Oh, and the morning of applied maths my parents gave me an mp3 player randomly, so instead of doing last minute revision I spent 3 hours trying to get Windows to recognise the damn contraption, only to have Linux do it immediately. The walk up to school to do Applied Maths was angry.0 -
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>.<PurpleFistMixer wrote: »Okay, well, I got 6 A1s
Yore a wimmenz?! :eek:PurpleFistMixer wrote: »Left Irish 1 an hour early and went and sat in the sun eating icecream with the rest of the girls...
I always thought you were a guy!
It's the nick, it suggests ... well, it suggests a guy! >_>
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randylonghorn wrote: »>.<
Yore a wimmenz?! :eek:
I always thought you were a guy!
It's the nick, it suggests ... well, it suggests a guy! >_>
In that case you'll be surprised to know that I am a woman.0 -
Everyone thinks I'm male. >.< Does "purple" not sound terribly feminine?randylonghorn wrote: »>.<
Yore a wimmenz?! :eek:
I always thought you were a guy!
It's the nick, it suggests ... well, it suggests a guy! >_>0 -
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Year ... 2007
Paper(s) you dreaded ... Ahh.. none really German maybe and Economics because it was my last exam and just wanted to be finished but I picked easy subjects
Highest mark ... English (A1) - 97% after viewing my script
296/300 Paper 1, 286/300 Paper 2
Lowest Mark .... German (C3)
Memories of it.... Not getting stressed out by any exam, and being surprised about how much it had been hyped up by teachers and people before me and it turning out to be just like any other exam
--Leaving OL Maths after about an hour, so easy lol
--Results night :pac:0 -
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