Exams

Yay I'm onto my second post already! I have to admit I'm not really used to writing a blog every day but I'm sure I'll get used to it!

Anyway I've basically been revising for my end of year exams since roughly two weeks before half term (over a month now), and I'm finding all the revision is dragging on a bit now. I can understand having to revise even more next year, but just for end of year exams it kind of seems that all this time revising is a waste of time. Anyway it's nearly all over as the exams finish a week tomorrow so I'll get over it. It was really annoying though because yesterday we had our French oral exam, and I thought I'd prepared well as I'd learnt my whole speech off by heart and had also looked at the other questions we had to revise. However, I was not aware that the presentation was only worth 8 out of 28 marks, the other 20 being the questions; therefore I will have lost out on A LOT of marks for that exam. Obviously our teacher thought it would be particularly helpful to tell us this directly after the exam, but oh well at least I now know for my mocks and for my actual GCSE next year.

Today I have been revising mostly Physics, and to be honest I'm not entirely sure how well I'm going to do during tomorrow's exam because our teacher Mr Hardyman cannot control the class to save his life. It's a shame because I think he actually knows a lot about the subject and would be a really good teacher if the class gave him half a chance. However they seem to have forgotten that we're taking a serious exam next year and it may decide on our future. Being one of the better behaved students in the class Mr Hardyman seems to think I'll do well, but I'm not totally convinced seeing as we haven't really covered a full year's work.

The other exam I have tomorrow is English, and again I'm not totally sure how that's going to turn out because I don't actually know what the exam will be on. Mr Cowburn hasn't really told us about any of the exams and hasn't prepared us nearly as much for them as other teachers have done. I saw one of my friend's coursework folder today (he has a different teacher) and it literally has at least 50 pages of solid handwriting. My coursework folder has about 15-20 pages of writing and that slightly worries me about whether I'm behind or not. Also I'm not totally convinced he's prepared us properly for the exam because you're meant to understand certain texts before you enter the exam and the teacher is meant to go through these in class. This unfortunately is where Mr Cowburn fails because he isn't able to explain something without going all senile and over the top, which means you can't really take notes because you wouldn't be able to write down what he says in the exam.

Anyway I think I've bored you enough about my worries for one day. I'll post another update tomorrow so I can express my views on how the exams actually went.

George.