End Of The First Day Of School Cert.

[chriscross]

Another day comes to an end and there a quiet alot of school kids that have just finished 4 hours worth of exams. Did anybody find it stresfull? i found english was easy but the last question left me thinking for a while befor putting pen to papper. Sceince was much the same multiple choise was a peice of pie but the writing section just bored me with crap that didn't relate to anything.
Tomorro is the start of another day of exams with maths witch is the one i have been dreading all of this time and history and geography. i know for a fact that geography i will fail as i got 23% on my yearly exam. history should be easy it will all be about the whitlam government and the dissmissal(from what i know).
Then last but not least the computing skills test. not sure why this is there it just is and the way i see it its just there to piss people off. I did the practice and half the stuff i didn't even know. amazingly I still passed the practice.

Good luck to all sitting the exams

please tell us ytour thoughts on the exams.

[PyletSnviper]

well day 1... i survived... pretty happy actually as i finiashed both tests within 1 hour... so i had 1 hour to go back through them and redo stuff and fix punctuation and other little things... so yer i am happy with how i went

non calculator first thing in math tomorrow should be fun :rolleyes: lol

luck to all you.. and remember to PIN IT YA FAIRY

[leitch]

yeah for queensland! last exam today, wet'n'wild tomorrow, valedictory thurdsay night and schoooooolies on saturday :D

[Gekigengar]

the school certificate is nothing!!

you would of been able to pass this test if you did it last year..

dont stress no need.

[Knight]

Was scribing for someone in their English School Certificate today (I'm in Year 9)..FAR OUT!!! All of the questions in the English paper were EASY!!!

[robmundall]

I dont know how anyone could find it stressful. The only thing i found stressfull is the amount of time you have left over, and they make you sit there doing nothing.
Did anyone do much for the subaru question in the poem section? It was like half a line and the had a 4mark question on it!
In teh science test the dna one left me stuffed. I didn't do anything on DNA in class so I worte about how DNA heps CSI type dudes:D

[@nDr3w]

Not too bad at all.
The science wasn't too bad, neither was the english. I kind of thought that all my studying went to waste on the english test. Although that last question was a bit WTF. I just started going on about superiority theories, Stalin, Hitler etc and made up shizit about why this is a major problem in the function of general society. Hopefully I filled the lines with enough crap to get some decent marks haha.

[Regan of Gong]

My speech rocked.

I started off by explaining how I'm not into philosophical things like that.

Then I explained how the first line was quoted from Sir Alfred Gurns after his "scientifically-aidied" titanium bridge collapsed killing 106 workers, leading toa n enquiry into the disaster.

I then contrasted this to the work of Father Henry Earnest, who worked among the poor in Cape Town, before famously declaring that "the bridges we build to reach out to those less fortunate than ourselves is what defines our character".

I then suggested that we could meld these two ideas, and perhaps build bridges for the poor that were free to travel on, unlike toll roads. I then asked people to donate to the cause to build metaphorically based, symbolistic, physical bridges for the poor, and assured them their investment return would be much more than monetary.

I concluded with "Please, help build the bridge".

You cannot beat that.

I swear I'm not on drugs.

Other than that, the rest was fine. Science was alright (NO MORE SCIENCE EVER!), and the supervising teacher let us leave when we'd finished our exam. Unfortunately we couldn't go home, but it was still good getting out 1/2 hour early. Secondary Co-ordinator wasn't real happy, but it's only a small school, so hundereds of kids celebrating the end of day 1 wasn't a problem.

Maths will be OK I reckon, as it's only level one, and I normally go pretty good in History/Geography, although people say there's always a lot on Aboriginal hisotry and policies in there, which is what I'm studying now.

[Plow King]

School certificate is a piece of piss... Last year i got a band 6 for science and I didn't do stuff all work.

[junior]

I got history and geo on my b'day tomorrow.... ah well i got 3 month holidays once finish tomorrow exams.

Don't go to good in history or geo, I wrote about Golf Whitlamd in my yearly exams which teacher thought was pretty funny.

[shauno]

Fell asleep on my geo paper and drooled all over it.
Haha.
All in all i dont think i did overly bad.
Not saying i did well though..ha.

[@nDr3w]

Anybody think that some of the questions in the mulitple choice in both papers were plain crap? I found with some of them that they had more than one answer, so I just took the most logical. pretty annoying when they throw stuff like that in. other than that I didn't think it was too bad at all. Only have computers left now. Plus I get the whole day off tomorow and half of Thursday off. Stoked.
andrew.

[chriscross]

Anybody think that some of the questions in the mulitple choice in both papers were plain crap? I found with some of them that they had more than one answer, so I just took the most logical. pretty annoying when they throw stuff like that in. other than that I didn't think it was too bad at all. Only have computers left now. Plus I get the whole day off tomorow and half of Thursday off. Stoked.
andrew.

yeh i found a few of them in the geography papper. like the ones that ask about the best thing for the invironment and stuff and there were two right awnsers. ah well its all over now.... no more school ever:D

and before someone says school is the best years of your life i have heard that a million times in the last mounth

[robmundall]

was the location of alice springs
N135 w34
or
S135 E34

I was not sure.
edit: S135 E34 is right

[chriscross]

was the location of alice springs
N135 w34
or
S135 E34

I was not sure.
edit: S135 E34 is right

yeh i got stumbed on that question aswell.
because i pay so much attention in geo and all

[bazza]

those exams are soooo crap. queensland has a way better system. even if it is dodgy as hahaha.


qcs = open general exam which is mixed in with your overall marks and a bell curve thingo created over the whole school and than compared to others and some complex shit but it just means you don't have massive exams at the end of the year which rules.

[Regan of Gong]

I said South, as Australia is south of the equator and the scale was going down.

I thought some MC questions were ambiguous, so I tried restating the question and getting my answer from that. History was pretty easy, as was maths (only was unsure of 2 or 3). Geography's all crap anyway...the purpose of our field work was to fulfil board of studies requirements (quoted from our teacher)

[Hopper]

I'm intrigued as to know what is the end of year scheme for all the different state examinations. Reading this thread has been quite interesting, short answer English quesitons, set History questions, multiple choices and heaps of spare time.

The SACE system (SA) every course has a three hour exam, no course has multiple choice quesitons, English and History exams have 2 exams and one source analysis each, but the exam questions are general. Also with pretty much every exam you are working flat out to the end, except for Physics..... that subject is piss easy. And exams are spread over 3 weeks.

This is the structure of the History Exam (which I'm lead to believe is simialr to the English Studies Exam)

Essay 1:Comparitive essay There are 4 topics, each topic has 3 general essay questions

The topic I am preparing for is the Political Revolutions. in each of the 4 topics there are 3 possible sections they can ask questions from. These questions are general such as "How did external influences effect how radical the new governments became in the Revolutions you have studied"

Essay 2: In depth Essay, there are 3 topics they can ask about and each topic will have 3 possible general questions.

Section 3 is an source analysis no one has any experience about.

[Anthonaut]

Hopper, actually SACE involves PAS subjects which don't have exams at all. And some exams (physical education for example) only have 2 hour exams.

Oh and i think geography might have multiple choices :D

[Regan of Gong]

You do that for Year 10?

[sockman]

you call that a test?

i think a year 7 remedial student could pass!

the questions were all straight foreward.

wooooooooooot no school tomorrow

[Hopper]

Hopper, actually SACE involves PAS subjects which don't have exams at all. And some exams (physical education for example) only have 2 hour exams.

Oh and i think geography might have multiple choices :D

Do you want me to bitch slap you........ :p

Ok, there are probably about 8% of subjects that are PAS, which means they are internally moderated BUT these subjects still are meant to have an end of year exam set by the school, except for English Communicaitons.

[Anthonaut]

Do you want me to bitch slap you........ :p

Ok, there are probably about 8% of subjects that are PAS, which means they are internally moderated BUT these subjects still are meant to have an end of year exam set by the school, except for English Communicaitons.

I love you too :P

This is for year 12, to clear things up.

[e30 guy]

haha you had to do tests. Nah should be the one getting laughed at only just started the damn HSC.:mad:

[robmundall]

Just got my results.
I don't really care what i got but here they are anyway.

English - 75 Band 4
Math - 80 Band 5
Science- 76 Band 4
Geo... - 82 Band 5
History- 71 Band 4
comp..- 95 Highly Competent.

I rekon i'm qualified to be a bricky:p

[@nDr3w]

Just got my results back then.

English - band 5

Maths - band 5

Science- band 5

Geo- band 5

History- band 5

Computers- band 6.

Pretty happy with them.

[robmundall]

Just got my results back then.

English - band 5

Maths - band 5

Science- band 5

Geo- band 5

History- band 5

Computers- band 6.

Pretty happy with them.

pfft you probaly studied and gave a crap :p

[hippyz]

well i found it stressful too and i just got my results back. i did all right i got what i expected to band 3 in math and science and 4 in english(disappionted) and geography and a 5 history and in that computer test, wasn't it easy.