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I got my English exam on Friday, and turns out, everytime I read something for study, it doesn't register.

Any last minute exam advice, NSG?

fuck it.
take it and don't think about after you turned it in, and get drunk or something.

Yeah, well, I don't think that I need a particular impressive ENTER score to get into one of the courses I want, but I'm nervous anyway. I want to do decent, at least.

my point was don't fret so much, read and relax, and as a good measure afterwards do something lame, like get drunk.

I got my English exam on Friday, and turns out, everytime I read something for study, it doesn't register.

Any last minute exam advice, NSG?

Get drunk. I got drunk the night before my exam of Theoretical Physics and passed with a score of 24 out of 30. Yeah!
At the end I was totally spent and out of my head because the oral exam lasted 2 hours (couldn't even recognise an internal product).

My Old Man used to say 'If you don't know it now, you never will', but you will be suprised though just how much you do know, and will fly through the exam

Well, I think I'll do decent in the written argument, and the argument analysis, and I should do ok in the text analysis for Lantana, but I'll really drop the ball on I'm Not Scared.

Any last minute exam advice, NSG?

Yeah, camp out at your school library and do it there.

I can't study when I have distractions around me. (Like now, even though I have two essays due in and an exam on friday)

How old are you, Kanabia?

How old are you, Kanabia?

20. Why?

Cram to the point that you fall asleep after the exam.

20. Why?

Are you in uni, or what?

Are you in uni, or what?

Yeah. Final year.

What about you? I'm guessing it's a VCE exam, correct?

Yeah. Final year.

What about you? I'm guessing it's a VCE exam, correct?

Yep. It's depressing. What are you doing, and what ENTER did you get?

And can you help reassure me that my ENTER doesn't matter for TAFE?

How old are you, Kanabia?
I too was going to ask him that.
*I'd forgotten*
W00t 433rd Nicest Citizens.
*Dances*

Yep. It's depressing. What are you doing, and what ENTER did you get?
Silly Victorians. "ENTER"?

I got an OP 2, and that was fine.

For your exam...what sort of stuff are they testing?

Yep. It's depressing. What are you doing, and what ENTER did you get?

Arts at monash.

I got roughly 78 (I'd like to think I could have done better, but I recall that I got a study score above 35 in all of my subjects except Japanese anyway, but was unfortunate enough to mostly pick subjects that got marked down...but meh. Doesn't matter anymore.)

And can you help reassure me that my ENTER doesn't matter for TAFE?

Yeah, I wouldn't worry. There will be heaps of people that put in no effort and as ENTER is judged against them, even the most minimal amounts of study should give you enough.

Silly Victorians. "ENTER"?

I got an OP 2, and that was fine.

I have no idea what an OP 2 is.

Although the system of percentile ENTER system certainly seems to make sense to me (at least in principle. The execution is horribly flawed. Top marks in humanities subjects will likely give you a lesser score than mediocre marks in science, but I guess that's just to discourage us useless humanities types and turn us into manual labour.).

I have no idea what an OP 2 is.
I think the system is pretty similar.

Everyone does a "QCS test" at the end Year 12. Then they rank schools and subjects according those scores.

Then they look at your results, and your performance relative to the other students in your class.

In the end they come up with an OP Score between 1 and 25, 1 being the best, 25 being reserved for people in a coma.

Well, Kanabia, looks like you're a lot smarter/motivated than me. I'm fairly smart, but, due at least in part to my Asperger's Syndrome, I have trouble expressing it.

What texts did you do for English, anyway?

I love exams, they're so much fun, espescially when the prof gives you stuff on the exam that you didn't expect to see at a 500 level course. You know, things like "list the dates these things occured on" and "tell who was President when this happened." Hell, I was doing more serious analytic work in eighth grade than what I was doing on this midterm.

I got my English exam on Friday, and turns out, everytime I read something for study, it doesn't register.

Any last minute exam advice, NSG?

give up.

give up.

I agree.

Drinkydrinkydrinkydrinkydrinkydrinkydrinkydrinkydrinky!

For the last time, I'm not giving up and drinking!

For the last time, I'm not giving up and drinking!
Well, I'm not sure what this exam would be asking of you (English doesn't seem to lend itself to studying very well, does it?)...but whatever it is, you could probably spend your time better than on NSG.

What I also like to do before exams is to get up very early (like 4AM early) and study then. Much less distractions at that time, and once you're over this initial tired stage you feel at the top of your game for a few hours. Just gotta keep in mind when the exam is, otherwise you'll fall asleep during it. :p

Has anybody read "I'm Not Scared"? God, that book is hard to analyse.

Well, Kanabia, looks like you're a lot smarter/motivated than me.

Oh hell no! Didn't I mention all the work I had due in, but i'm meanwhile still wasting time here? :p

What texts did you do for English, anyway?

In year 12? hmmm...

Oedipus Rex, The Divine Wind, ....uh...

Apart from those two, I really can't remember which were year 11 and which were year 12.

Well, I'm not sure what this exam would be asking of you (English doesn't seem to lend itself to studying very well, does it?)...but whatever it is, you could probably spend your time better than on NSG.

actually this may be a good idea. over here, at least, english exams tend to be more about your reasoning and essay-writing abilities, and your ability to draw out relavent information from the text, etc, as well as debating and evaluating your point with such evidence.

debating on NS could be your best port of call :)

I agree.

Drinkydrinkydrinkydrinkydrinkydrinkydrinkydrinkydrinky!
wish i could drink. stupid antidepressants. :(

Has anybody read "I'm Not Scared"? God, that book is hard to analyse.

Heh, I know my brother is doing that one.

wish i could drink. stupid antidepressants. :(

Hehe.

I had a friend who mixed booze with anti depressants (zoloft). He went temporarily batshit.

Dude I totally am with ya

Try not to worry that much thats the worst thing you can do.....Don't think too much when you go in and you shall be fine ;)

Heh, I know my brother is doing that one.

It's a bitch. There's nothing to analyse, in my mind; it's a creative story, not a narrative.

It's a bitch. There's nothing to analyse, in my mind; it's a creative story, not a narrative.

Hm. I find that there's plenty to analyse in creative stories. They don't just come out of nowhere. Haven't read that one, though.

Hehe.

I had a friend who mixed booze with anti depressants (zoloft). He went temporarily batshit.

the ones i'm on could actually save me a shitload of money... even the teeniest sip of booze and i feel like i've had a good couple of pints. give me a couple of fingers of a nice whiskey and i'll be out for the night (or perhaps temporarily batshit, yeah...)

Hm. I find that there's plenty to analyse in creative stories. They don't just come out of nowhere. Haven't read that one, though.

When I'm writing a creative story, it does.

the ones i'm on could actually save me a shitload of money... even the teeniest sip of booze and i feel like i've had a good couple of pints. give me a couple of fingers of a nice whiskey and i'll be out for the night (or perhaps temporarily batshit, yeah...)

Well, said friend seemed to think that everyone in the world wanted to see his penis, so perhaps you should refrain. >.>

Get stoned. My best exam result at university came from me taking the exam while stoned. I did worry a bit towards the end because the effects were wearing off, and looking back through the paper I thought that everything I'd written was a great steaming pile of donkey droppings.

Get stoned. My best exam result at university came from me taking the exam while stoned. I did worry a bit towards the end because the effects were wearing off, and looking back through the paper I thought that everything I'd written was a great steaming pile of donkey droppings.

Yeah, I don't think I'll be doing that. >_>

I think English is a big pile of crap, though. I'm never going to analyse a text again, and it's not going to help me in life.

Yeah, I don't think I'll be doing that. >_>

I think English is a big pile of crap, though. I'm never going to analyse a text again, and it's not going to help me in life.
Depends what you want to do. If you become, for example, a data analyst, it will help you. If you become a professional sportsperson, it's unlikely it'll help you.

Depends what you want to do. If you become, for example, a data analyst, it will help you. If you become a professional sportsperson, it's unlikely it'll help you.

I wanna make video games. So, no, I don't think it'll help much.

wish i could drink. stupid antidepressants. :(

While I admittedly ignore the warnings on medicines far too often, anti-depressants are not the sort I'd cheat on.

http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781400075638&view=rg

If you scroll down it has some questions you could think about that pick out key themes and could help you to analyse the book by thinking about these kinda things *nods* :)

Testing yourself by trying to write answers to as many of them as you can could also really help you feel more confident in your writing skills, and gathering information from the book, which are the two basic things *nods*

Good luck :)

Thanks Glitz, that might help.

Ok, I think I'm ok now. I'm more calm and relaxed (this girl with nice legs told me to calm down; I think it worked). :D