Education Thread

[Cricketman]

Cramming for my AP US History exam which is on Friday. Colin, I have no idea how you MAJORED in this, it's absolutely rotting my brain. I have to go through 200+ years of history, in over 110 pages of notes and shortened themes in less than 2 days. OH GOD.

If only I wasn't aiming for ivies.....

 

[Kshitiz_Indian]

I've got a Physics exam in like 10 hours out of which I shall sleep in 11 and travel in 1, and I yet have no idea what other 2 topics other than Electrostatics are coming.

Can anyone best this?

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Cramming for my AP US History exam which is on Friday. Colin, I have no idea how you MAJORED in this, it's absolutely rotting my brain. I have to go through 200+ years of history, in over 110 pages of notes and shortened themes in less than 2 days. OH GOD.

If only I wasn't aiming for ivies.....

110 pages? That's all? I remember doing much more, more like 5 books for my class 10'th Board Exams!

 

[Magz]

Mock GCSE maths and Science SAT thing tommorow. Probably should revise

 

[Sureshot]

Well, I've got a nice 530 start tomorrow for an open day at a Uni in Birmingham. Hospitality Business Management is the one I've put down as my interested subject. I'm looking forward to it.

 

[Magz]

Well I'm pretty sure I've failed all of Section A, Section B was easy though.

The Science exam was easy aswell, simple SATs questions.

 

[Amiya]

Well i am in Class 10th. My session started in April and i already have finished my NCERT Maths book and now doing the other.:banana2

 

[Cricketman]

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110 pages? That's all? I remember doing much more, more like 5 books for my class 10'th Board Exams!

Haha, 110 pages of just NOTES. My actual text book is well over 2,000 pages, about size 10 font. .

The whole notes book was about 350 pages.

The test went horribly, BTW.

 

[Highlander999]

Could be worse. You could have 2,000 words left of an essay to write which is due in 8 hours time, no idea what you have left to say and only had about 6 hours sleep in 48 hours....

 

[treva]

Got a 3 hour General Studies exam later on. It's a pretty pointless exam seeing as no universities actually give a crap about it, but I suppose it's another AS Level. It's going to be interesting, I've not been to a single lesson on it so anything could happen...

 

[ste_mc_efc]

Got a 3 hour General Studies exam later on. It's a pretty pointless exam seeing as no universities actually give a crap about it, but I suppose it's another AS Level. It's going to be interesting, I've not been to a single lesson on it so anything could happen...

Spent the lessons as sleeping time in year 12.

Got A C overall, think I got full marks on one unit and flapped the others. Didn't go to the A2 january unit so got a rollocking and took off the course. Pointless subject as the two unis I have accepted offers for explicitly won't accept it for my course.

I told the heads of 6th form this and asked them to pull me form the january exam a few weeks before it (once I had my offers) so I could focus on the subjects that mattered, but as I was pretty much a guaranteed pass they refused. In fact pretty much anyone who takes A levels could pass it with no lessons/revision for it (hence the school making it pretty much mandatory to make the school pass figures look good.)

Had my death of a salesman re-sit this morning. Didn't leave enough time for section B but I tihnk I aced section A. Easily surpassed my somewhat embarrassing grade last time, doubt I have got an A though.

 

[Will_NA]

Had an AS resit of Hamlet this morning. I didn't need the re-sit but it magically appeared on my time-table so I thought what the hell and took it anyway. I got a weak B last time and considering the complete lack of effort I made in the run up to this Unit, I doubt I did any better.

Still, good to get a little exam practice.

 

[Highlander999]

If anyone has a Chemistry exam soon. When you look at the periodic table think of this

 

[treva]

Well that was hell. 3 hours of vast boredom saved by two questions on sport worth 35 marks ! It was pretty tough, and although half of it was multi-choice, the multi-choice questions were hard. Definitely not an A, probably not a B, so hopefully a C.

One exam down, 5 to go...

 

[Cricketman]

Could be worse. You could have 2,000 words left of an essay to write which is due in 8 hours time, no idea what you have left to say and only had about 6 hours sleep in 48 hours....

2000 pages isn't really that bad. It's about 3 pages. I've had to write 3k+ word papers about once a week for each of my classes first semester, so 5 a week.

Once a semester we have to write a formal lab report in our science units (AP Chem and AP Bio). They are absolute hell, are about 15-20 pages long, size 12 double spaced 1inch margins. They're worth about 500 points too.

I end up procrastinating and only starting at 10PM on the night before it's due. I work magic in a marathon all nighter, and end up pulling off unheard of 100%'s somehow. I'm the Rahul Dravid of formal labs, I work best under pressure .

 

[Will_NA]

2000 pages isn't really that bad.

dayyummmm!