Timewaster's Guide Archive

Well, the culmanation of my last two years of school is the UAI. This is a rank, not a mark, out of one hundred, in a bell-shaped curve compared to the rest of the state. it also decides what university courses you are able to get into.

The UAI was released today at 9 A.M. I spent 45 minutes plugging away the site, trying to connect to what I thought was a server that was overloaded and went down from every student in the state trying to connect.

That's when someone informs me over IM that I'm connecting to the wrong site. I check the other piece of paper, realise that he's right. I simply didn't read it correctly.

Feel free to laugh at me for this.

That said, I ended up with a UAI of 88.75. Not bad at all.

Here's an idea. The subtitles of all the articles are completly random. Some people leave it blank, some people include the author's name, some people do a newspaper style headline, , sometimes it's something witty, and I'm pretty sure I've seen case of the actual subtitle of the work being reviewed put here.

How about this gets a bit normalised? It currently looks really stupid on the department pages. And while we're at it, that Ars Magica review needs a score, the huge "No Score" looks ridiculous. But I digress. Anyway, it think it would be better if we could come to an agreement and all use the Subtitle box for the same sort of thing.

Well, I'm well into them, a third of the way in fact. That doesn't make me hate them any less.

English paper one was ok...pretty much what I was expecting, even including the fact that I wouldn't understand the second text they gave us. (The second text never makes sense) Part 2 was a short story, obviously put there just to spite me, since I despise having to try and develop a short story in 40 minutes. It just doesn't happen. I feel I did poorly on section 2, yet the last two times I felt that, it was my best section.  Part 3 was exactly as I expected, so I did pretty well with a mostly memorised essay that just needed a bit of tweaking to fit the question. Except of course the question made it difficult to use visual texts, of which my best text (Evangelion) was. I figured out a way around it (By saying it inlcuded a script or somthing) but afterwards people were feeling horrible.

English 2, which I did this morning, was also better than I expected. I did fairly well, but at the beginning I was stressing unbelievably.  Part 1, on Brave New World and Blade Runner was terrible, because the question was the one thing they could ask that I wasn't good at. (Context). King Lear was better, I liked the question, and found I was quoting very freely, so i must have done something right. Part 3,. Ted Hughes, was pretty good as well.

Tomorrow is Information Processes and Technology. I have done absolutely no work this year, and still topped the class,  so I should Blitz it, despite learning the course in a week. I'm not looking forward to it though. It's long and tedious, you have to write a lot for simple questions to get full marks. Besides, it's a two hour test that takes three hours, meaning you get to wait an extra hour at the end of it.  Not kidding, I did a practice test at home, and finished in time, despite watching a TV show and eating a meal halfway through.

Everyone is now celebrating no more English ever. Except me. I have an exam for English Extension still, as well as a future career as an English teacher.

I've recently finished a year 12 course of four unit english. Basically, the entire course revolves around the creation of a single text. In my case, it was a short story called "systemjammers". Is anyone interested in reading it? I can send it via e-mail dor anyone who wants it, along with the reflection statement, and precursor to it I wrote "system log".