Wednesday, November 12, 2008

The exam to end all exams: Classics

YES.

It is officially OVER!

Classical Societies and Cultures Units 3 & 4

The 11 of November 2008.

WOOT!

All my hours of practise essays, reading, analysing texts, analysing naked statues, more reading and regretting this subject...have finally paid off.

I had a running countdown to my exam for the entire term...and I am just so glad that it's finally over!

The exam was really good; our class was really well prepared for it, seeing that we have a pro-as teacher...

Anyways.

It was a warm day, and my heart was beginning to beat. Faster and faster.
:O
It was time to go into the examination hall.
*Silence*
The exam soon began...

Two hours on the clock, fifteen minutes reading time.

*Opens the paper slowly*

YES!!!!!
The best Iliad passage in the world..
A pretty good sculpture
and a wide variety of essays to choose from.

Oh yeah :)

I'm quite happy..seeing that I managed to write ten pages within two hours..

more than i've ever written in any of my practise exams!

at the start...my hand was like shaking..and cramping...it was PAINFUL.
But after a while..the nerves blew away :)
thank god :D

I managed to pull of the exam in a 'passable' manner
but I'm dreading the 15th of December o_O results day!

So..

Thankyou god for helping me through this all!
If it wasn't for You...
I dno where I'd be in life.
Thankyou for all of my friends and family who encouraged me
may you bless them too :)

But...I might miss Classics. All of Dr K's lame jokes...and CLEARLY essay writing myself well into the night, stressing about the sac the next day.

Zomg.

I'm just so happy it's all over!
A huge burden of stress gone!!
So now..time to focus on 1/2s.

*Deep sigh of relief*

OWH.

1/2s??

!!!!

Oh well. Just pass :D

So, I've been completely unproductive today and yesterday, making up for all the loss of several hundred hours of my life on this subject.

Hopefully...the examiners will be able to read my writing...and feel extremely generous.

Either that or...

The vehicle carrying the examination papers will do an amazing flip, somehow spilling toxic waste and or acid onto my essay, thus giving me a perfect score.

LOL.

unlikely

but possible :D

Nights then :)

Things to do in an exam you know you are going to fail:

If all else fails...

(i stole this from a facebook group: http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=2249470023&ref=ts)

2. Talk the entire way through the exam. Read questions aloud, debate your answers with yourself out loud. If asked to stop, yell out, "I'm SOOO sure that you can hear me thinking." Then start talking about what a jerk the instructor is.

10. As soon as the instructor hands you the exam, eat it.

18. If the exam is math/sciences related, make up the longest proofs you could possible think of. Get pi and imaginary numbers into most equations. If it is a written exam, relate everything to your own life story.

20. Bring some large, cumbersome, ugly idol. Put it right next to you. Pray to it often. Consider a small sacrifice.

30. After you get the exam, call the instructor over, point to any question, ask for the answer. Try to work it out of him/her.

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