Today was the start of the mid year examinations. This is from Wednesday to Friday. I however only have exams today, which are Geography and Physics, so I have the other two days off meaning a four day weekend for me.

The Geography exam was pretty straight forward. There were two parts to it, general skills and natural processes. I think I was pretty sorted with them. Although in saying that, I did have difficulty trying to work out the map resource due to it being black and white and not very detailed. Also in the knowledge exam, two of the questions seemed to ask the exact same thing, except they wanted them answered in different ways (one written and one drawn.) I was going to write and draw about the same thing but I wasn’t sure if that is acceptable so I attempted to discuss something else, which probably ended up to be a bad idea.

The Physics exam was quite difficult. It was a practical where we had to write a comprehensive method of a pre-determined experiment. That was pretty simple, but then carrying out the experiment was a challenge. We had to make a pendulum that swings on a diagonal. Its too hard for me to explain what I mean but it was very hard to set up, and even harder to run. The data was average due because of the experiment. Doing the math on the raw results was simple but then when it came to discussing the experiment, I was blank.

Staying at school until 4:30pm is really strange, mainly because it is so deserted, as well as being dark (well in winter.) I’m pretty happy that both of my exams were on the same day to allow me to have an extra long 4 day weekend. Now it is time to relax after all that hard studying, or lack there of.

As you may have realized, my blog has been down for about a fortnight, on and off. Well I promise (well Peppery promises) that it won’t happen again anytime soon. Now I shall return to posting on a regular  schedule knowing that the blog will be up for me to do so. I am going to try for a daily post because I have the time to do that now that I am on holiday.

Well now exams are over and from Monday at 10:30am, I am officially on holiday, although my body and mind have been on holiday for a good two and a half weeks already. I managed to struggle though my exams without studying and we can see the results (or lack of) from this exercise. Lets hope I managed to fluke everything again like last year.

At the end of March this year, I left a service called Twitter. Today marks the day I return to the service because a lot of my online contacts use it and I have been following them for some time now. I feel it is time for me to participate with them on the website so tweeting commences on my original Twitter profile. I hope that this time I can stay a little longer, just long enough for the service to capture me in its net and not let me leave. We will see how this turns out.

This time next month, in 30 days, I will have sat my first exam. I hate exams, but then again, who doesn’t. I really have no idea how to prepare for exams. Last year, I did absolutely nothing to prepare and I suppose it reflected in my average grades. Teachers and parents keep harping me to study but I have no idea what that means. I hate reading over my notes, especially since I have no real notes that I would consider acceptable to read over. Only my Maths teacher actually gives sufficient notes and the other ones just write crap on the board that you copy into your books somewhere between answering activities and preparing for tests and such. Even if I try to read over notes, I always end up falling to sleep, or even get distracted by some technological device, aka the computer. If I was to leave the computer, it would take me a month to catch up on everything I have missed, something which I am not prepared to do. I guess I will do another “Jonathan” and do absolutely nothing and get worse than average grades this year. I think I am going to be screwed!!!

Today exam week starts. I have one exam today which is an Internal Assessment for ICT. That is not going to be a problem because ICT is childs play and Databases are insanely simple, well at level 2 at least I get tomorrow off which I will be studying for the last 4 exams I have.

Wednesday I have Physics and Maths. Physics is going to be a challenge because we have such a crap teacher and am going to have to properly learn everything on my day off the day before the exam. Maths is going to be easy enough but will probably have to look over the stuff I got taught at the start of the year just to refresh my mind.

Thursday I have English which I will have do try. Its my worst subject and I’m going to struggle to get the credits i need for University Entrance but it will be worth it when I get it. Friday I have an integrated Physics test which is another Internal and no one has any idea what it’s about but I guess it will be a surprise when we get there.

I probably should have studied in the weekend but I was too lazy and put it off till the next day. Hopefully I’m not going to regret that choice after the exams. Not much I can do about it now anyway. Surfing the Internet + Watching Videos > School Work + Studying