Exams

This blog is very, very, very, veryveryveryvery late. There, of course, is a terribly lame reason for this lateness. I like television and I have been avoiding the computer for television... Oh, well. '

I had half-yearly exams during the last two weeks of school. Yeah, setting us up for the HSC - GREAT! I had 8 exams to do: Music (Musicology), Music (Aural), Maths General, Studies of Religion II, Advanced English, Extension English, Legal Studies and Modern History.

I thought I did well in all of them (except Legal Studies - I didn't study for it) I was hoping for As or Bs in all of them (except Legal Studies for the above reason, but I thought I did better in some than I actually did.

Modern History, for example, I spent weeks making study cards that I cut up and covered in plastic. I made them about EVERYTHING we were going to need to know. EVERYTHING. I made 140 cards. It was a long and painful experience but I knew all of the answers. I sat down for the test and I didn't need any of it. All of my studying was worthless. I ended up only getting 51/80 for the test.

Advanced English sucked because Ms Mav marked mine and she's not very good at leaving comments so I don't know what I did wrong other than "not enough depth". I know its not an excuse but I was never taught how to properly write essays, ever. People think I have this advantage because of my English teacher mum, and that I have some amazing ability at English but they're wrong. I suck at English. I don't know how to punctuate correctly, I can't write essays, the only skill I have in English is that I write kick-ass speeches. Way to be humble.

Extension English I was proud of my 16/20, Its a high B, thats my second best score but I know, I KNOW, I dragged Iris down. Her speech was really good and deserved and A but we were marked in pairs which sucks because one partner will always be better than the other and the three best students in my class were dragged down, so, that sucks.

Music is the only subject I'm really really proud of. In my Viva Voca (Musicology Section) I topped my class (I got 20/20) and I also topped in the Aural section. So, suck on that Samantha.

So, to conclude, I pretty much am sucking at school.