Exams...drawing nigh
Less than one week left of school for me. I would be excited but before i enjoy the freedom of the luxurious summer holidays i have a series of exams to contend to. Most of the subjects i have done this year i enjoy learning and although that does make them significantly easier to know the essentials it does not ease the tension of the study i now must face.
Accounting is not what i could call a stronghold of excitement and enjoyment in my schooling career and therefore i am naturally hopeless at it. It is more the fact that i do not feel motivated to learn what i must in it that lets me down. I am sure to drop that next year.
However Chemistry and English i enjoy and they are subjects which will require significantly less studying than others because the cirriculum requires very little compared to my potential of learning in these areas. I was disgraced today when i got a chemistry test back with a failure mark on it. It was an internal unit standard (meaning assessed during the year and either pass or fail based on getting every question or nearly every question correct[no achievement with merit or excellence]). I was disgusted because of the entire test i only got four quetions wrong, two of which i had initially got correct but changed because it looked incorrect. The questions were about finding the pOH of particular concentrates of water and if the assessment had been an achievement standard (results either not achieved, achieved, merit, or excellence) it would have only been achieved questions (the lowest mark). I found the pH of the substances fine. And therefore it showed i could do the problems, and because i had every other question in the test correct i do not think it is fair to be marked as having failed. The problem was not the amount of questions i got wrong but the sections i got the questions wrong in. and of the questions i got wrong all were of the same section. Atleast in chemistry there are resits :) back to the topic of my subjects tho...
Japanese i enjoy but the amount of vocabulary i must learn is huge, i printed it out of the computer after someone sent them to me in a compressed attachment via email and with 44 words on 29 pages thats 1276 words i have to know. Fortunetly i know the majority of them. But only just, i probably need to learn about 400 words in approximately 2 weeks. :(... Statistics is not too hard, i only have to remember what formulas to use and where. I don't intend to spend a lot of time revising for statistics.
Physics i am totally hopeless at. One of the main reasons for this i feel is the amount of work i actually do in class. I admit in physics i sit at the back of the classroom and use it as more of a social period. I feel i will need to spend a lot of time studying physics. I believe i have potential to do resonable at it, with atleast merits. So is that all my subjects? English, Japanese, Chemistry, Physics, Accounting, and Statistics.
So in about two and a half weeks i face my first exams. Oh and i was selected as a Peer Mentor for 2006! Yay i get to help next year's year nines (3rd formers) settle into our school. Should be fun.
Accounting is not what i could call a stronghold of excitement and enjoyment in my schooling career and therefore i am naturally hopeless at it. It is more the fact that i do not feel motivated to learn what i must in it that lets me down. I am sure to drop that next year.
However Chemistry and English i enjoy and they are subjects which will require significantly less studying than others because the cirriculum requires very little compared to my potential of learning in these areas. I was disgraced today when i got a chemistry test back with a failure mark on it. It was an internal unit standard (meaning assessed during the year and either pass or fail based on getting every question or nearly every question correct[no achievement with merit or excellence]). I was disgusted because of the entire test i only got four quetions wrong, two of which i had initially got correct but changed because it looked incorrect. The questions were about finding the pOH of particular concentrates of water and if the assessment had been an achievement standard (results either not achieved, achieved, merit, or excellence) it would have only been achieved questions (the lowest mark). I found the pH of the substances fine. And therefore it showed i could do the problems, and because i had every other question in the test correct i do not think it is fair to be marked as having failed. The problem was not the amount of questions i got wrong but the sections i got the questions wrong in. and of the questions i got wrong all were of the same section. Atleast in chemistry there are resits :) back to the topic of my subjects tho...
Japanese i enjoy but the amount of vocabulary i must learn is huge, i printed it out of the computer after someone sent them to me in a compressed attachment via email and with 44 words on 29 pages thats 1276 words i have to know. Fortunetly i know the majority of them. But only just, i probably need to learn about 400 words in approximately 2 weeks. :(... Statistics is not too hard, i only have to remember what formulas to use and where. I don't intend to spend a lot of time revising for statistics.
Physics i am totally hopeless at. One of the main reasons for this i feel is the amount of work i actually do in class. I admit in physics i sit at the back of the classroom and use it as more of a social period. I feel i will need to spend a lot of time studying physics. I believe i have potential to do resonable at it, with atleast merits. So is that all my subjects? English, Japanese, Chemistry, Physics, Accounting, and Statistics.
So in about two and a half weeks i face my first exams. Oh and i was selected as a Peer Mentor for 2006! Yay i get to help next year's year nines (3rd formers) settle into our school. Should be fun.
3 Comments:
I understand your anxiety, i too am facing exams at about the same time, although mine are Old Testamwnt and New Testament and although i've enjoyed them both but i hate exams.
I find that prayer is a very good tool in these situations.
If you really think your chemistry test was unfairly marked, pray for vindication. If it was unfairly marked prayer can change so many things.
Just keep your eyes on God in all your exams and you will find that you will have the clarity to concertrate more clearly on the task at hand.
Also pray agaisnt distractions in the exams, cos that is another way the enemy can take you out.
Remember God wants you to do the best you can and if you focus on him, you will
i did the resit for the test and passed so that was good! :) issue resolved
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