The story of today

This story now concerns the happening of yesterday, the 29th.

How bad can it get?

Well, it’s better than normal, yet its still the worse of the better days. That is, if you get what I mean. Which you probably don’t.

The day started with English. Yay. We went to the Sydney Morning Herald website to look for letters to the editor but I somehow stumbled upon a travel blog’s post on it about the “Mile HIgh Club”. Read about it here: http://blogs.smh.com.au/travel/archives/2008/05/the_mile_high_myth.html. Obviously, this is not content suited to “students attending school”. The teacher walked around and asked me what it was. I just thought about it and calmly said “nothing”. Yes, of course its nothing.

We normally have periods 1, 2 and 3 after rollcall. Somehow this was replaced by church service and therefore periods 1 and 2 were missed. After church service, there was recess. It was a 40 minute recess, which was a lot longer than the normal 18 minutes or so we get each day.

This week’s turmoil

The coming week is exam week. It is basically an event which happens twice annually that creates conditions like depression and suicide. No, I’m not going to suicide. Just saying, some people may develop a suicidal direction or turn emo.

I only have 4 exams during the week itself, which is fine. For some other unfortunate beings, they have 7. They are spaced rather to my advantage too. On Monday I have 2 exams, on Wednesday I have 1, and on Friday I have 1. This makes them rather easy to study for on-the-go.

Somehow English and Science are not those of the tested subjects. Weird. It does mean that the class marks are counted and I will have a bad ranking for those subjects. I don’t really do well.

I’m most concerned about Maths. I need to come first. Doubt I will though.

I can barely concentrate on studying. ARGH!

If only I was cloud right now (WTF?)… http://spookydoom.deviantart.com/art/Fanimation-The-Cloud-Song-22451106

Exams

Noooooooo. Sorry for this spam post, but exams are important. I must get back to studying how parallel lines preserve the ratio of intercepts on transverals.

P.S. This means I wont’ really post anything new this week.

National Test

Note: This post is not made to contain data. If you want data, go and read the other posts. This is just going to include some questions in the exam.

The exam is taken by persons in Years 3, 5, 7 and 9. This happens to be in the Year 9 test I found, and is meant to be a national ranking of students. I shall include some questions here for you to do.

5 in total. You have 40 minutes.

Question 1

The word that is mispelt is underlined. Write the correct spelling of the word in that space below.

Hello, I am a purrsun.

_________

The Human Marking Machine

Update: I got my mark back. 97%. First in the class.

All, I would like to introduce you to the human marking machine.

20 multiple choice questions. 30 points worth of short answers, with 1 point usually taking up a paragraph of writing.

Yet the machine. It somehow manages to mark them within 10 hours of retrieval.

How does it happen? I really don’t know.

How can the machine mark all the tests within 10 hours when normal other papers take at least 1 week or so to mark?

Now I know:

• The machine’s brain runs Ubuntu Hardy Heron, 8.04. Other machines’ brains run Windows Vista
• This machine has 4gb ram. The others only have 256mb
• This machine is a quad core 2.4Ghz. The others are Intel celerons
• This machine is running Office ‘07. The rest are running ‘97
• Or maybe… just maybe… yea. It must have been the personnel using it.

Thanks Ms Chen, for being such an efficient, determined and most of all dedicated teacher.