For all you students out there...

[Dancing_in_rain]

EXAMS ARE KILLING ME!!!
Wow. I never realised how much I hated Canadian and Québecois geography. SO boring. *yawns*
And math? Don't even get me started.

Anyhow, for all you students who are currently going through the same hellish world of exams, best of luck to all of you.

{6 exams left and counting!}

[Underwater Ophelia]

6 exams?! How many classes do you have?

[Godslayer Jillian]

Tests are hell of a lot better than homework.

[DeathChii]

Omg I know, exams are coming up!
All the final project are due next week- I'm working on a few right now! gurrrr... I am so not prepared for my exams either >[
Where do you live? Don't you have 4 courses a semester? or are you in one of those 8 courses all year round schools?

[DarkGentleman]

I wish I was still in school or college. I actually enjoyed going to classes and snooze a little during boring lectures, lol.

Doing homework was a pain like Jillian said, doing the exams was more fun.

My suggestions: study, have a little fun, study more, have a little more fun, then study more and get enough sleep too. Take little breaks because cramming is the worse thing to do for exam preperation.
One more thing: A can of Red Bull energy drink just before your exams.

Good luck on the exams.

[DeathChii]

True... Homework is the WORST
and I have soooooooooooo much of it T____T -cries-

[Cicero]

I'm taking my mid-year VCE exams right now and it's been hell in biology and chemistry form. I only have two exams but I'm such a raging perfectionist if I don't get the highest grade the school has ever seen on them I'll probably cry.

I actually made up a revision timetable (anyone who's seen Red Dwarf will know the dangers of this undertaking). My last 'task' for today's part of the timetable is to recover from the heart attack I'm probably about to suffer soon.

[Minyaliel]

Aww, poor Chii... *pats on back*

I finished my exams last Thursday. What a relief! I only had four of'em, but one lasted for seven weeks (practical exam), so it was hard enough. Well, good look to all of you, and remember the great reward that comes after exams - holidays! *dons hula skirt and flowers and leaves for the caribbean (in my day dreams)*

[Raptor]

I hope noone spilled vindaloo on it Cicero. Chemistry is veeery annoying, I did it last year, didn't continue with it though.

I'm doing my last exams before uni, only doing 3 subjects (plus general studies which we have to do, so 4) but I have 11 exams for them done 3 so far.

Seven weeks?! What subject is that?

Well good luck to everyone.

[Minyaliel]

Um, well, I've spent a year studying drama and theatre, so the 7 weeks were practical theatre - that is, we made a play and played it.

[Raptor]

Oh I see. Must have felt good when you got that finished, I like just getting to the end of an hour and a half exam.

[Dancing_in_rain]

Well...my full exam schedule, just ebcause it will make me feel better to whine:

May 30th-June 4th: English process exam (writing - 6 hours long, spread, with one hour per day-weekends)
June 1st-June 4th: French process exam (writing - 3 hours long, spread, with one hour per day)
June 8th: English reading + writing exam (3 hours, non-stop)
Today, June 11th: French reading comprehension and analyse/étude de texte (2h30 minutes, non-stop)
Tomorrow, June 12th: Géographie du Québec et du Canada *yawn* (2 hours, non-stop)
Wednesday, June 13th: Biology *studies frenzily* (2 hours, non-stop)
Thursday, June 14th: Physical Science lab exam (3 hours, non-stop, half for experiment, half for hand-written lab report)
Friday, June 15th: Math - v. important if I want to get into high math next year. (3 hours, non-stop)
~Weekend~
Monday, June 18th: Nothing
Tuesday, June 19th: Nothing
Wednesday, June 20th: Physical Science written exam! It's a government exam so everyone in the province does it at the same time. It's actually a grade 10 course but my "oh-so-smart" school does it in grade 9. Go figure.

And then...*drumroll*...I'M DONE! YES! School's out for the summer...

*smiles at the thought of the blue hair to come*

[Cicero]

Finished my biology exam today. After it ended a guy sitting near me asked the supervisor where the nearest bridge was. To leap off.

Enough said.

[Heatherzilla]

Exams suck. And I have to change my electives for next term. Everyone is stressed and grumpy.

[Aaroneet]

I just finished with finals and don't take regents. In other words, school's out for me! Good luck to those who are in the middle of testing anyway.

[eternalcrimson]

I agree with everybody else regarding homework. I’ve learned more from titillating lectures than I have through pages of monotonous homework. In one of my college classes we had a homework optional course (If you did the homework you got extra credit) and just for kicks I decided not to do it to see what my grade would be and I still got an “A”.

I can understand in some instances why homework is necessary. For example if you are learning a language like Japanese, Chinese, etc. it’s vital because through repetition you can memorize and read the characters.

[Valrys]

I can't stand homework, I can never make myself focus outside of the classroom, so I end up with very sub par homework, yet get very good grades overall.

And I've just finished my AS level exams, which were not as bad as I thought they would be, shame that I have to go back next week for another 5 weeks to start my A level courses.

My GCSE exams were a month or so of pure hell, urgh, they were boring as hell and I was always sitting there for ages waiting to be let out, the papers really are too short.

[Raptor]

Heh GCSEs are easy compared to A levels. Yeh going back to school after AS exams is a bitch, especially when they won't let you stop doing chemistry yet and you have to keep doing it in a really hot classroom... But I'm doing A2 so I won't have to this year

[Valrys]

Originally Posted by Raptor

Heh GCSEs are easy compared to A levels. Yeh going back to school after AS exams is a bitch, especially when they won't let you stop doing chemistry yet and you have to keep doing it in a really hot classroom... But I'm doing A2 so I won't have to this year

Lucky you! One of my subjects this year was a single year course anyway and so I don't have to take it for the rest of the year, so I get some extra free time

I've found it quite boring anyway having all this free time off, I get glued to my computer and frankly, thats not good for me, so its good to get back to college, and actually have a "social life" again.

[Crying_Crimson_Tears]

Exams are shredding my brains apart. It's terrible man. I hate them.

[Dancing_in_rain]

CCT, I hear you. My brain is being pickled and dessicated. My géographie exam today was really easy today. Not a single question about the production laitière and the cows though, which was one of the things I studied a lot. Well...I have a biology fianl tomorrow and having just finished studying the reproductive system, I'm going to tuck myself into bed now. Or not, seeing as it is much to hot in my room to sleep with blankets.
G'night all and best of luck for y'all's exams.

[Cicero]

I had Chemistry this morning. 90% of it was calculations, and most of them were dead easy. I think I had to write about two sentences in the whole exam because it was all numbers. And they asked nothing about Le Chatelier's principle after I'd even learnt a little song to help me memorise its definition (holy shit I'm such a nerd...).

[MotherofMercies]

Been there done that. Way easy. Ok I lie. Good luck anyway.

[Valerius]

Ah don't worry, highschool is easy. I thought it was hard, but really, when I got to college I felt like I wanted to go back to highschool!

[Valrys]

Originally Posted by Valerius

Ah don't worry, highschool is easy. I thought it was hard, but really, when I got to college I felt like I wanted to go back to highschool!

Really? You must be doing some tough crap at college, everyone I know wouldn't go back to school in place of college. College gives you more freedom, even if they overstate how much control you have over it yourself