Had a few downs, but lots of ups, surprisingly including a Chemistry exam! I was dreading the paper in the run up, but in actual fact the exam was far less trouble than expected! There were 5 questions, spread across the course including calculations, bonding and electronic structure however despite the wide range, all of the questions were doable and I felt fairly comfortable on most, hopefully when I get the results my confidence will be proved correct!
The key low point of the day was a lesson of a subject (used in it's loosest form) of TRAK, or Thinking, reasoning and knowledge. This subject is a joke, with lessons ranging from how to play sudoku (thought this was a hobby not a life skill) all the way through to the challenging topic of counter arguments; yes it did take our teacher an entire lesson to explain this simple phenomenon to us! Today's lesson tackled the mock exam paper, and general revision for the exam tomorrow. The first task passed with ease and I picked up a Distinction, hardly surprising when the pass mark is 23, considerably lower than 50% of the possible 60 marks available! It genuinely astounds me that it's possible to fail an exam where we are provided with such gems of questions such as being able to rearrange numbers to figure out a pin number; part of a simple arithmetic puzzle. The challenge of revision however was far more tiresome, as we were taken through such fascinating subjects of fallacies, how to draw a Venn diagram along with going over what a counter argument was, for those in the room with 3 or less brain cells! Just at the point I was beginning to doze off in the corner, the teacher ended the lesson, and we all stampeded out, the cry "revise for tomorrow" falling upon deaf ears!
Overall however it was a good day, and the promise of study leave tomorrow, before a 2 o'clock exam should leave me more than enough time to have a healthy lie-in, go for a short ride before cleaning the road bike! Barring the exam, not at all a bad day!
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