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Well, I learned something about pens today when I the 3 pens I brought with me into my english paper 1 mock exam ALL ran out. :L I had to ask the teacher for a spare one, that'd be a real disaster in an exam situation
me: *puts hand up*
examiner: yes?
me: spare pen?
examiner : ...get out!
I can just imagine it :P So aye, need to get some good pens that won't run out in the next few days!0 -
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Anyone else just relying on the pack of pens they bought at the start of the year? :pac:
I can't believe you have a pack of pens that has lasted a whole year. I lose pens at an alarming rate :eek:
As for the numbering thing, just number the questions and write in the same colour, there's need to be switching colour unless you have OCD or something!
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**Timbuk2** wrote: »I can't believe you have a pack of pens that has lasted a whole year. I lose pens at an alarming rate :eek:
I got a pack of blue ones and a pack of black ones, not sure how many was in each, but I'd say no more than six or seven. I've about four unused ones even now, you'd think I'd have used them up by now, being a Leaving Cert and all. :cool:
And I don't lose pens. Ever.
Gave one away at the start of the year, but that's it. :P 0 -
**Timbuk2** wrote: »I can't believe you have a pack of pens that has lasted a whole year. I lose pens at an alarming rate :eek:
As for the numbering thing, just number the questions and write in the same colour, there's need to be switching colour unless you have OCD or something!
I NEED to number the questions in a different colour. It's soothing.
I'll also probably bring about ten pens into the exam with me. And two calculators. And 3 pencils.0 -
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**Timbuk2** wrote: »I can't believe you have a pack of pens that has lasted a whole year. I lose pens at an alarming rate :eek:
As for the numbering thing, just number the questions and write in the same colour, there's need to be switching colour unless you have OCD or something!
I think I used up close go 50 pens since the beginning of the year.0 -
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**Timbuk2** wrote: »As for the numbering thing, just number the questions and write in the same colour, there's need to be switching colour unless you have OCD or something!
That is actually genius. I'm going to write everything in black now, save a few precious seconds! But I've been using blue pen all year, maybe a colour change will throw me off. :cool: 0 -
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then stablio point 88 black handles margins like a dream. writing with one would have made even Shakespeare blush. German engineering means that if you lose the cap... no problem its airtight seal prevents drying.
Modeled on the shaft of the german 88 flak/anti tank gun.
Take this to your exam and you will really see why the pen is mightier than the sword0 -
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Actually shocked no ones mentioned the BIC Atlantis as of yet! Dream of a pen... glides across the paper
It's like the BIC 2.0, new and improved :pac: Circular shaped instead of hexagonal so sits easier in your hand for longer, and features a smooth rubber grip. And the clicking! Best clicky pen in existence, the click motion is so fluid and silent...
Unfortunately I'm all out of black and I don't use blue pens
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i use these bad boys myself, they've got a fine tip that makes my writing look neater and i just feel i write better like that because they don't get all inky and smudgy i write question numbers in red usually, quotes, titles and stuff in blue to stand out important stuff and then mainly write in black 
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Just wondering,
Will an examiner have any problem if I use a pencil for maths and doing calculations in physics or what not.
I know it's a bad idea to be rubbing out half pages full of hidden attempt marks but just for those stupid little + signs that should be -, or obvious little mistakes.
Its all fun and games turning a - to a plus, but + to minus :mad::mad::mad:
Also it looks neater and stuff 0 -
Just wondering,
Will an examiner have any problem if I use a pencil for maths and doing calculations in physics or what not.
I know it's a bad idea to be rubbing out half pages full of hidden attempt marks but just for those stupid little + signs that should be -, or obvious little mistakes.
Its all fun and games turning a - to a plus, but + to minus :mad::mad::mad:
Also it looks neater and stuff
From what I've heard, examiners don't really like people to use pencil. Its hard to read and much more likely to smudge. For maths/physics, I would leave everything you write down there, as you may have set off on the right path at one stage and not realised it, and you'll get attempt marks.
If you think its messy leaving little mistakes all over the place, just do something like draw a box around the incorrect calculations and just write "no" beside it, so its clear to yourself and the examiner that that part is not relevant to your final calculation, but at the same time leaves it clear for them to read if they're looking to give you attempt marks. For the plus and minus signs, you could just rewrite the line if there was space beside or below the original line?0 -
The pencil smudge is one thing I've never understood - I mean, I can still read all my primary school copies :pac: I discussed it with a friend last week because we both prefer pencils; she wrote a bit in pencil and rubbed it til her finger burned, and it was perfectly visible.
But the general consensus seems to be no pencils allowed.
Then again you have to draw diagrams in pencil. Surely they're not smudge-proof :P0 -
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The pencil smudge is one thing I've never understood - I mean, I can still read all my primary school copies :pac: I discussed it with a friend last week because we both prefer pencils; she wrote a bit in pencil and rubbed it til her finger burned, and it was perfectly visible.
But the general consensus seems to be no pencils allowed.
Then again you have to draw diagrams in pencil. Surely they're not smudge-proof :P
Be a boss and use a mechanical pencil.0
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